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Dear friends Name of victim: Okanda Hevage Jinadasa (50), Married man with 5 children; a mason by occupation Date of victim’s death: 5 September 2003 Address of victim: Okkampitiya, Moneragela D...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Ravi Kiran Regmi, alias Nirjeeb, 59, a teacher, has been held and tortured by the army security forces in Narayangh...

Dear Friends Inhuman Assault by the Bagawantalawa police of three young men The victims are; Name : Ramaiya Dhanapala Singham Age : 23 years Civil status : married with one child Address : Chapelton E...

Dear friends Victim: Padukkage Nishantha Thushara Perera (23 years old) Address of the victim: No. 63, St. Sebastian’s Road, Kandana Perpetrators: Police officers attached to the Divulapitiya...

Dear Friends Amnesty International has highlighted five appeal cases against torture from around the world. (http://ai-stoptorture.c.tclk.net/maabc0oaaYRL8bcN4R0b/ ), Together Against Torture. We ar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recently communicated with John P. Abraham, who is involved in the campaign for the rights of the indigenous Adivasi tribals in India. The Ad...

Dear Friends We are forwarding information from the International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) on the torture and custodial deaths of two men in Turkmenistan. If you ha...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received news that a female Burmese migrant worker was raped and killed by three men in Mae Sot, on the Thai border with Burma. One of three ...

Dear Friends We are forwarding information from The International Secretariat of OMCT on the Torture and incommunicado detention of three men by Police in the Hanumandhoka District Police Office (HDPO...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another two cases of deaths in custody in Sri Lanka. It is already the third custodial death case that AHRC has received in the past...

Dear friends, Disappearance of 26 year old man after arrest and torture by Watthegama Police officers in Kandy District Victim: Saliya Padma Udaya Kumara (26 years old) Date of incident: from 26 Augus...

Dear Friends We are forwarding information from The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of FIDH and OMCT China. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to...

Dear Friends We are forwarding an urgent appeal from the Burma Campaign UK to you, requesting the German government to impose strong economic sanctions against Burma immediately. After the brutal crac...

The news that Justice Mark Fernando has decided to resign from the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka two and a half years early is of grave concern. Observers believe that Justice Fernando has been sidelined...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had previously issued urgent appeals and wrote appeal letters to the Congregation of Mother of Sorrows Servants of Mary calling for the justice fo...

Dear Friends We are forwarding updated information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding the killing of the Blancos, a Mangyan family, by elements of the 16th Infantry Bata...

Dear Friends Torture of two young persons and fabrication of charges by Ankumbura Police; Illegal arrest; Illegal detention for 8 days Victims: Bandula Padma Kumara (14 years old) and Saman Kumara (17...

Dear Friends Further information has been forthcoming from Mr John P Abraham, who, despite threats to his life, continues to campaign for the rights of the indigenous adivasi tribals in India. A judic...

Dear Friends We are pleased to be able to give you good news that Mr. Stephen Khan, a Kashmiri asylum seeker, was released on 6 August 2003 after five years of immigration detention. Federal court jud...

Dear Friends, Doctors informed Chamila Bandara and his family on Aug. 19, 2003, that Chamila Bandara has lost the use of his left arm permanently. Chamila Bandara is at present being treated at the Pa...