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Corruption in Sri Lanka is worse today than ever before. This fact is admitted by everyone, is seen to be more and more evident in the press, and even the government does not deny it. All governments ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged arbitrary arrest and severe torture of a 16-year-old boy by police officers in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-036-2007-R1 March 01, 2007 A reply by the Asian Human Rights Commission to a reaction concerning an earlier Statement Background: The AHRC received a reaction from Dukhinda Ja...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement from the editorial board of Maubima, a Sunday newspaper. Some of their staff are alleged to have...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) forwards below a list of persons recently abducted in Sri Lanka, based on a report issued by the Civil Monitoring Mission on February 7, 2007. Th...

Many civil society organisations, both local and international have received a letter similar to the one that follows from the secretary to the Select Committee of Parliament for the Investigation of ...

”  Representatives of the four religions and civil society groups spoke of the need for a political solution rather than a military solution.  In addition, Ambassadors from Norway, the United ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another brutal assault of an innocent young man by the Sri Lankan police. We were informed that without any reason, Mr. A.A. Pri...

Despite of the speculation created through some statements by the Sri Lankan government that the Saudi Arabian authorities were considering commuting the death sentences of three Sri Lankan citizens h...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Reporters without Borders (RSF ASIA) – Tamil newspapers correspondent goes missi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you a report: CPA on Commission of Inquiry and IIGEP which appeared in the Nation, February 11, 2007. Asian Human Rights Com...

Article 2 (3) of the ICCPR requires that the state party to the ICCPR shall ensure to any person whose rights and freedoms are violated shall have an effective remedy and that such a person shall have...

On February 8, 2007 a leading politician and a member of the cabinet, Anura Bandaranaike, made a statement in Parliament in which he said that he had received several death threats. He said that “Thr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of an unacceptable delay of justice in the case of a young man, Udayanga Perera, who was arrested and subjected to severe tortu...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of an alleged unprovoked attack by the Sri Lankan Navy on two groups of six fishermen from Negombo on January 27 and again on 28 Janu...

As protests were being planned by the railway workers and local and international protests were being staged regarding the three persons who had been abducted on February 5 (please see our statement S...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another alleged torture of a young man by the police in Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, Mr. A. Dushman...

Scholars At Risk (SAR), an international network of universities and colleges dedicated to promoting academic freedom and its constituent freedoms of thought, opinion and expression -freedoms essentia...

The alleged abduction of three persons belonging to the Railway Workers Union who are also associated with the publication of the union’s journal, Akuna, was reported in many publications including t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the information regarding alleged disappearance of another four persons within the first week of February 2007.  Forc...