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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man named Saman Rohana Manawadu by the Ingiriya police. Mr. Manawadu was...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a situation regarding B. Nimal, who was illegally detained by the Wanduramba police because his son had disappeared with ...

Note from the AHRC: In earlier communications the AHRC has reported that the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is no longer a legitimate body as the member commissioners were appointed by the Execu...

This year is the 23rd anniversary of the Black July of 1983.  In a book published in June 2002, Sirisena Cooray, very much an insider to the regime in power in 1983 gives the story of the manner in w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the death of Mudalige Sunil Fermin Perera, who died on 6 July 2006 due to torture by prison guards (Se...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-164-2006 July 10, 2006  A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA – Torture, worse than absurd – (this is the beginning of a series of statements...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that M.S.F. Perera who was allegedly tortured by prison guards at Kuruwita Remand Prison has succumbed to his injuries at the Nationa...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2006 AHRC-OL-028-2006 An open letter to the Inter Ministerial Committee on Human Rights The Inter Ministerial Committee on Human Rights Thro- Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe Mi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an arbitrary arrest and degrading treatment of a woman by the Galle police on 31 May 2006. According to the in...

The HRCSL under the leadership of the earlier commissioners decided to send a legal representative from the HRCSL to attend the trials relating to the torture and murder of the victim, Gerald Perera w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a 24-year-old man named D Chamara Lanka by the Kurunegala police during his arbitrary dete...

I am sure you are aware of the murder trial of Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was assassinated while waiting to give evidence in a trial against several police officers from the Wattala Police St...

Representatives from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana) and The Centre for Policy Alternatives (Dr. Devanesan Nesiah, Bhavani Fonseka and Mirak Raheem) traveled to Mannar, Pesalai and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one more journalist, Sampath Lakmal Silva was found shot and killed on the morning of 2July 2006.  Mr. Silva is be...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention to support a young man named Amitha Deepthi Kumara who is currently in illegal police custody and receives con...

The bench of three judges of the Supreme Court made an order on June 30, 2006 directing the Attorney General to consider whether action is warranted against two citizens who filed a fundamental rights...

Gerald Perera was fatally shot on November 21 2004 while waiting to give evidence before the Negombo High Court against several police officers who had been accused of causing serious injuries to him ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to protest the list of new members appointed to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, posted on your website. Your recognition of the new commis...

We submit this urgent memorandum on the above with a view to ensuring transparency and accountability in the proposed legislation. Having examined the Bill, as it stands, we have found several major i...

The New York based Human Rights Watch, in a statement issued from its headquarters, expressed deep concern that the only prosecution witness, willing to testify into the killing of five youth in Trinc...