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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding another case in which the whereabouts of a man remain unknown after arrest in Colombo, allegedly by officers f...

We reproduce below a letter written by an Attorney-at-Law, Mr. W.J. Basil Fernando, on behalf of Ms. Padma Wickramaratna, the widow of Gerald Perera. This letter sums up the grounds on which an appeal...

What if some one says that and asks you to disprove it?  Or, if a whole society or even a large part of it begins to believe in fact that two and two is five.  This may be dismissed by some as pure ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of illegal arrest of a man by Payagala police on 18 January 2008 in Sri Lanka. The Officer-in-Charge ...

Case against Makavitage Suresh Gunasena and five others vs. The State  We wish to bring to your notice that in the aforementioned case the High Court judge of Negombo acquitted the six accused in thi...

1st April, 2008 The Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu Is a much respected and venerated shrine to Catholics all over Sri Lanka. For more than 400 years Catholics and as well as non Catholics have gathered a...

Gerarld Perera was a torture victim recognized by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.  Attorney General filed action against 6 police officers for the torture of Gerald Perera.  A week before Gerald Per...

March 31st, 2008 – http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/600 by University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) On 4th August 2006 17 aid workers were extrajudicially executed in their Acti...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Kandy Human Rights Office, a human rights organization, regarding the case of torture of a man by a prison offi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the continued inaction of the police into the alleged sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl by her fath...

The announcement by the IIGEP of the ending of their involvement in the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Alleged Serious Violations of Human Rights came yesterday (31...

A man, who alleged that he was severely beaten up by the police after he refused to pay a bribe of three valuable gems, was granted leave to proceed in a fundamental rights application by the Supreme ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of the rape of a 17-year-old girl after her abduction allegedly by a politician on 17 December 2007. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Baduraliya police allegedly fabricated charges against a man and his family members on 8 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. P...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a young man by the Godakawela Police on 7 February 2008 in Sri Lanka. The police allege...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 18 March 2008 Reporters Without Borders today called for an explanation from President Mahinda Rajapakse after the army took control ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault and sexual harassment of a woman allegedly by a man employed in the Divisional Secretary’s o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man by Kandana police on 6 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. Police allegedly beat him while r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four police officers from the Wanathawilluwa Police Station arrested a farmer from his house and took him away duri...

The last few days saw developments in trade union protests against the attacks on employees of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). Ever since the incident that was provoked by Minister Mervyn...