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The following report appeared in the BBC Sinhala Service on February 5, 2007 No suspects arrested six months after the murder of 17 aid workers A Paris based charity has called on Sri Lanka government...

Sri Lanka Area: 65,610 sq. km. Population: 20,743,000. Languages: Sinhala,Tamil, English. Head of state: Mahinda Rajapakse. Sri Lanka – Annual report 2007 The resumption of the civil war had dra...

The fifty-ninth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Independence Day was celebrated yesterday (February 4, 2007). Democracy in Sri Lanka lasted only 30 years after independence. In 1978 an authoritarian ...

The former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mangala Samaraweera was quoted in several news agencies stating that a disappearance takes place in Sri Lanka every five hours. “It has been reported...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) have been informed that 14-year-old W. K. Sajini Vasana Perera was insulted both physically and mentally by her class teacher in front of all clas...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault of three men after illegal arrest by Galgamuwa police on 25 November 2007 in Sri Lanka. Po...

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) notes with dismay the media reports suggesting a move by the government to abolish the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Public Accounts Committee ...

Tomorrow, January 26 marks the 57th year of the Indian republic. The question that will be in the mind of many this Republic Day is what has become of the “tryst with destiny” spoken of by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The ar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist was allegedly tortured and fabricated charges were laid against him by the Kalpitiya police in Sri Lan...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that we have received a letter from Mr. T.A. Mahanama Tilakaratne, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Disappearances in response to our...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the violent and arbitrarily arrest of a man being investigated by officers from the Excise Department on sus...

We reproduce below the email reply from Ms. Dilruskshi Handunnetti, the Sunday leader journalist who made several allegations against the AHRC in her article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTER...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement by the Rt. Revd. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ...

 the Sunday Leader issueThe Editor Sunday Leader Newspaper Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd. 98, Ward Place, Colombo 7 Sri LankaFax : +94-75-365891 – email : editor@thesundayleader.lk Dear Sir, T...

The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward by way of this statement, a report sent to President Rajapaksa by the Bishop of Mannar on the killing of innocent civilians in an aerial bombardment...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...

(Sunday Leader December 31, 2006) I am writing this to clarify misinformation contained in an article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTE’s southern gift’, by Dilrukshi Handunnetti, whi...

AS-321-2006 December 29, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: New Year’s Wish List for 2007 1. That fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution be fully honour...