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The suicide bombing in a busy street in Colombo’s commercial area of Fort, targeting buses in which riot police were stationed have killed at least 10 and injured another 95 including civilians passi...

17th May 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) registers its disquiet over the contents of a letter addressed to it by the Editor of the Lanka Dissent website, Indika Gamage on 16th ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Amnesty International to the Secretary General of ASEAN. Asian Human Rights Commission Ho...

The BBC Sinhala Service today quoted the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Violations of Human Rights (CoI) as stating that it could not recruit independent la...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-139-2008 May 19, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BURMA: From Dictator Ne Win to Cyclone Nargis – Burmese catastrophe continues Two weeks a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a farmer leader who had been the object of an overt surveillance and continuing threat had been shot dead on 15...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat, about the case of a teenage girl, origin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that two migrants workers, newly elected as president and vice president of Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU) were again ar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Community Legal Aid Institute in Indonesia (LBH Masyarakat), a non-profit civil society organisation in Indones...

Desmond Tutu May 15, 2008 9:00 AM http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/desmond_tutu/2008/05/no_right_to_be_there.html It would seem self-evident that a country which tortures and kidnaps its own people...

A group of civil society organisations in Sri Lanka have appealed to the members of the United Nations Human Rights Council urging them not to reelect Sri Lanka for membership to the council on the ba...

The response of the Burmese regime to the Cyclone Nargis disaster is now acknowledged to be the world’s worst response to a disaster by any state or regime. The Burmese generals, including Senior Gen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Neervazhy, a human rights organisation working in Thrissur, Kerala regarding the case of assault by the local polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a man was found dead with a broken neck and severe injuries on his head in a river in Takeo province on 8 May 2008. The police h...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of two men by police officers attached to Hikkaduwa Police Station on 2 April 2008. One police off...

This week the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, by a majority judgement of two out of a bench of three, held that several prison officers had violated the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Michael Antho...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to present the speech given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission at the Awards Ceremony for the Asian Human Rights Defender...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you regarding the illegal house search of a human rights defender Mr. Sushil Kumar Lakhe by the police in Banke district on 11 May ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring your notice the cases of abduction and a serious assault which has not yet been adequately investigated and in which no perpetrat...

IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community ALERT – SRI LANKA 9 May 2008 Authorities attempt to prevent foreign media from covering elections in Eastern Province SOU...