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By Basil Fernando This paper has been prepared to encourage discussion on the limits of the developments on the impact of adult franchise as a factor contributing to the present crisis in Sri Lanka Bo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged fabrication of charges and threats against a young woman named Ms. Wasana Vinodya Silva by the Mull...

The public information on the situation of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) became even more confused with the statement made by one of the commissioners, D. Jayawickrama who was quote...

The higher courts of Pakistan have failed to respond to the growing number of abductions and forced disappearances at the hands of the country’s security forces. Instead they are in effect actin...

According to a report in the press (Daily News July 26, 2006) the Chief Justice is quoted as having said:  ‘”go slow” activity as a pernicious act committed against the whole countr...

[Re: UP-043-2006: SRI LANKA: Young man who was brutally tortured by the Horana police now threatened to withdraw his Supreme Court Case; UP-031-2006: SRI LANKA: Supreme Court granted to leave to proce...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received news of yet another case involving a teacher in Sri Lanka assaulting one of his pupils. In the latest incident, on 17 July 2006 the ...

Dear friends, In June 2006, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported the alleged abduction of K. Thaivani’s three children aged 17, 16 and 8 by tea estate owner, D. Karunadasa who engaged in...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC0 wants to inform you updated information about Mr. Premalal, whose torture case was reported by the Asian Human Rights Commission on July 21, 2006...

Lee Kuan Yew in a recent publication has paid himself a cheap compliment by comparing the tragic situation of Sri Lanka with Singapore.  He attributes Sri Lanka’s collapse from a one time bette...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a man allegedly by Sergeant Samaranayake of the Wanduramba police. The victim was taken ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information detailing the torture of a man by police officers attached to the Alawathugoda Police Station. The victim was beaten and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-172-2006 July 21, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)  SRI LANKA: Torture, worse than absurd  (This is the second in the series of statements whi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku...

[Re: UA-221-2006: SRI LANKA:  Death in prison custody of illegally arrested man; second man seriously injured, UP-140-2006: SRI LANKA: Responsibility of prison officers for death of M.S.F. Perera and...

[Re: UA-90-2004: SRI LANKA: A boy brutally assaulted by his teachers and denied his right of education; UP-42-2004: SRI LANKA: Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers; UP–003–2006: SRI ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the fabricated charges of a man, owing to the line of work he is engaged in. Though the police have charged...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a 19-year-old boy named Dhanuka Tisara by the Kalutara South police after his illegal ar...

[RE: UA-176-2004: SRI LANKA: Another alleged police murder of a man by the Moratuwa police; UP-05-2005: SRI LANKA: Mt. Lavinia police’s apparent inaction to arrest/prosecute those responsible fo...

In a very strange move that will surprise anyone concerned with the global effort to eradicate disappearances and gross human rights violations, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), which...