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(Hong Kong, July 4, 2007) “The government of Sri Lanka must clearly state its position regarding providing legal assistance to young Nasik who is facing death sentence by beheading in Saudi Arabia” ...

Dr. Palitha T.B. Kohona,  Secretary / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic Building,  Colombo 01, Sri Lanka. Dear Dr. Kohona, Re Rizana Nasik of Mutur—the young girl f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to write to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to save one Sri Lankan girl Nafeek Rizana, who is facing the death s...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-147-2007 June 28, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AG’s reply to IIGEP; Kafkan metamorphosis of the Attorney General’s role – Part...

Ever conscious of the fact the entire world is watching Sri Lanka’s ongoing human rights crisis President Mahinda Rajapakse and his government are making comments and promises they do not appear to b...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged brutal assault on a young female student by a male school teacher in the Kegalle district on 18 Jun...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the savage assault of a father of five by the Eheliyagoda Police—allegedly on the instigation of his wife. Th...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-143-2007 June 27, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AG’s reply to IIGEP; Kafkan metamorphosis of the Attorney General’s role The Att...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) needs your immediate intervention in the case of a Sri Lankan migrant worker, Nafeek Rizana, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for ...

(We refer to earlier communications regarding the Sri Lankan’s Chief Justice’s proposed visit to Hong Kong to attend a meeting at the City University. Kindly see SRI LANKA: The Sunday Times publishe...

They heard the thud of wood on flesh. Boot on bone. On teeth. The muffled grunt when a stomach is kicked in. The muted crunch of skull on cement. The gurgle of blood on a man’s breath when his l...

(We produce here a news item published in the Sunday Times, June 24, 2007 ‘CJ off to HK despite protests’ which was a completely fabricated story). We also reproduce below a copy of a letter written...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information about Benedict Rosery, a 25-year-old three wheeler driver who had been allegedly tortured at the Peradeniya poli...

On the International day for the elimination of torture the special consideration of the extremely harsh conditions prevailing in Sri Lanka relating to the observance of human rights needs to be stres...

The serious collapse of the rule of law in Sri Lanka is accompanied by the collapse of the policing system, the degeneration of the prosecuting system under the Attorney General’s Department and...

The adoption of on the President’s text is an important achievement. We thank Ambassador de Alba and congratulate him on his untiring efforts over the last year to bring the Council to this point. Wi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2007 ALRC-OL-001-2007 An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances Mr. Santiago Corcuera Chairperson Working Group on enforced and i...

(Note: We are reproducing the report published on June 14 2007 by the International Crisis Group. The Executive Summary and Recommendations follow below). ____________ *INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP R...

Further to our previous public statement of 11 June 2007, we, the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) are concerned that the conduct of the President’s Commission of Inqui...

Press release, 06/14/2007 by AI (Geneva) President Mahinda Rajapakse, as Head of State, must take personal initiative to end the human rights crisis in Sri Lanka, said Amnesty International’s Se...