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J.S. Tissainayagam, senior journalist who is on trial before the High Court has been moved from the remand prison to the magazine prison in Colombo on November 18. No reasons have been given for this ...

This week a website maintained by the Ministry of Defence published a report in which they referred to some lawyers as traitors as they appeared for alleged LTTE suspects by filing fundamental rights ...

Mr. D.W.C. Mohotti, an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, (Membership Number of the Bar Association M. 859) by way of an affidavit has narrated the harassment that he has suffered whil...

Surangi Sandamali Padmini Peiris is the wife of Sugath Nishanta Fernando who was assassinated on September 20 in broad daylight by two unidentified gunmen who the family believes were working on the i...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the government pressure that led to the debate programme “Ira Anduru Pata” being cut short as it was being broadcast live on the evening of 4 November on...

Mangala Pinsiri Samawareera, a cabinet member in several governments and presently the leader of a political party and Member of Parliament yesterday (November 6), reported in Lanka Dissent, an E-publ...

International Bar Association (The global voice of the legal profession) 10th Floor, 1 Stephen Street, London W1T 1AT United Kingdom His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa Presidential Secreta...

The importance of the results of the United States election on this occasion is more a reflection of the overwhelming rejection of the way in which America has been run in the recent past, particularl...

The letter from the Mahason Balakaya threatening lawyers who appear for terrorists raises many questions which go far beyond the matter of the protection of the individual lawyers who have received su...

A Press Release from forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Statement of (The International press freedom mission consists of the following organisations): International Fede...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 1 October 2008 the police allegedly assaulted a man. He tried to prevent a boy at a restaurant from being beaten...

(Further to our statement of yesterday, October 28th we are forwarding the full text of the statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman made on October 23rd at the 63rd Ses...

(This is the third of a series of statements that will be issued on this subject) The wide circulation of death threats through a letter from a group calling itself the Mahason Battalion last week has...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Kuruwita police assaulted a boy on the road and forcibly took him, with his brother,  into police custody and late...

Though the concept of human rights was now universally accepted, Manfred Nowak, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, today warned that ill t...

(This is the second of a series of statements that will be issued on this subject) The wide circulation of death threats through a letter from a group calling itself the Mahason Battalion last week ha...

(This is the first of a series of statements that will be issued on this subject) The wide circulation of death threats through a letter from a group calling itself the Mahason Battalion last week has...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of threats and harassment made against a man by police officers since May 2008 in Sri Lanka. He would not pay money to t...

Mr. Priyasath Dep – Acting Attorney General Attorney General’s Department Colombo 12 SRI LANKA Via Fax: +94 11 2 436 421 Hon. Acting Attorney General, Re: Request to Appeal against the Judgment of t...

We write to you in reference to the recent judgment delivered by the High Court judge of Negombo on 9th October 2008 acquitting the accused in the abovementioned case under the Convention Against Tort...