Torture

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kaluthara Guruge Thilan Suranga Jayasinghe, who was arbitrarily arrested upon false accusations and was allegedly severely tortured and detained by the Dambulla Police.  Mr. Jayasinghe claims he was beaten and kicked in the face, head and stomach by police officers, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police sergeant was tortured and subsequently arrested by policemen attached to the Wadduwa police station.  The victim’s motorbike and mobile phone were also confiscated.  The victim sustained considerable injuries and was admitted to the Panadura hospital where the doctor chained him to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Vidhanelage Ajith Wickramage, who was arbitrarily arrested by police officers from the Galewela Police Station, and his mother, who was verbally assaulted and threatened by the police officers.  Mr. Wickramage claims that he was brutally tortured by the police, who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two men, namely Michael Bautista (22) and Benjamin Agustines (19), both laborers and residents of Dagohoy Paradise, Barangay Dadiangas North, General Santos City, Mindanao, were severely beaten allegedly by a member of the Joint Task Force GenSan (JTFG), a military contingent assigned in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the owner arbitrarily closed down the factory in 2002. The AHRC previously reported that the owner, Mohamed Mohamed Izzath deprived his workers of the Employees Trust […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just received information on two cases of inhuman police torture committed separately by the Matara police and Hikkaduwa police.  In the first case, Mr. Damith Vijitha Kumara, was arrested by the Matara police at his workplace along with his mother and sister.  He was stripped naked […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella police station on 24 September 2005. Police arrested Manoj whom they accused of being an accomplice of a man they earlier arrested for murder, but […]

SRI LANKA: Police misconduct; custodial torture; threat and intimidation, government inaction —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and inhuman attack on a student by a member of the Aralaganvile Police Station on 7 August 2005. M. S. Duminda Aluthe was taken into custody after having been […]

[RE: UP-32-2005: SRI LANKA: Please write a letter to the Attorney General to speed up Gerald Perera’s murder trial; UP-23-2005: Gerald Perera’s murder trial may not begin for another 5-7 years, UP-14-2005: The assassin of Gerald Perera has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department, UP-76-2004: Gerald Perera died after gunshot; His family needs urgent […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, threatened and assaulted by the officers at the Block Development Office in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal. Mr. Sharma was, at the time of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by the Pannala Police on 3 August 2005. Mohommed Lufrash was detained by the police, despite their intention being to arrest his father. Upon detention, Sub-Inspector Jayanath proceeded to torture the victim, striking […]

[RE: UP-03-2005: SRI LANKA: Further threat to the life of torture victim Channa Prasanna Fernando, UP-01-2005: SRI LANKA: Police officers interdicted regarding three torture cases of Gerald Perera, Lalith Rajapakse and Channa Prasanna Fernando; UP-54-2004: SRI LANKA: Urgent protection is necessary for the torture victim; UA-122-2004: SRI LANKA: Second torture of a torture victim who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Initiative for the Development of People’s Advocacy (PIAR) in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia regarding the illegal detention and torture of 23 year old Alfred Ulu. Alfred was illegally detained by the Kupang police in February 2005, and then sent to the Penfui […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged torture of a man by police attached to the Gokarella Police Station. On 4 July 2004, Mr H.M. Susantha Herath was taken into custody by Sub-Inspector (SI) Ellepoloa, Sergeant (Sgt.) Perera and two others from the police station. Upon his […]

[RE: UA-136-2005: SRI LANKA: Two persons severely injured after being tortured by iron rods by the Wattegama police; UP-97-2005: A torture victim with serious injuries is chained to his bed due to legal technicality; UP-98-2005: Rohitha remains in chains in hospital due to legal technicalities] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased […]

[RE: UA-136-2005: SRI LANKA: Two persons severely injured after being tortured by iron rods by the Wattegama police; UP-97-2005: A torture victim with serious injuries is chained to his bed due to legal technicality] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information about torture victim, Rohitha Upali Liyanage (Case No. 600/2005 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about Rohitha Upali Liyange, who was brutally tortured by the Wattegama police. (See further: UA-136-2005) He is undergoing treatment at the Kandy Hospital where he is in an external fixator consisting of several pins and screws inserted in and attached to his right leg. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the illegal arrest and brutal torture of a couple by the Saliyawewa police on 26-27 July 2005. The incident happened soon after a security assistant belonging to the Saliyawewa police attempted to rape Mrs. Wijesuriya, after forcibly entered the victims’ house. In particular, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two men were injured, one of whom was hospitalised, after several policemen from the Wellawaya and Badureliya police stations assaulted them in separate incidents. Victim Ranshadhi Pethiyalage Jayasinghe (40) was illegally arrested, detained and tortured by the policemen from Wellawaya on 24 July […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the brutal torture of Azizur Rahman Shohel and his younger brother Atiquer Rahman Jewel by the Boalia police in Rajsahi District, Bangladesh on 27 July 2005. The victims were not only beaten with batons but were also given electric shocks. The police also […]