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Following letter was handed over to the Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, National Human Rights Commission and National police Commission by a Special Representative, Mr. Ali Saleem sent ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the illegal arrest and torture of 24 year-old Halneththi Susil Indrajith Silva by the Paiyagala Police. Silva was ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an another torture case from Welawa, Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, a young man named Nanumuralage Roshan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a 16-year-old boy named Balawedage Sahan Tharaka was severely assaulted by his teachers on 19-20 July 2004 and has been wa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the case of Chamila Bandara, a 17-year-old boy who suffered from serious injuries due to being hung and beaten at t...

During the last two weeks there were two occasions in which victims of very serious acts of torture sought protection from the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka claiming that they were facing...

In the Sunday Leader of July 17 under the caption ‘Police Commission Blame IGP for Inaction’ by Shenan Moses, there appear several comments relating to the Constitutional powers of the National Po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the illegal arrest and assault of Mrs. M. Piyawathi by the Baduraliya Police on 31 May 2004. After the arrest, she was ta...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a copy of an affidavit signed at the remand prison in Kandy on 16 July (written in Sinhala) from Saman Priyankara, who suffered for ...

July 2004 is the 21st anniversary of the government-sponsored riots against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The month became known as Black July. Similar state-sponsored violence took place in Gujarat, India in ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that in spite of recommendations issued by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Sri Lanka February 2004 in favor of the evi...

Dear friends Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC has been informed that Jayasekara Vithanage Saman Priyankara, a former torture victim, has been severely beaten up by police officers attached to the M...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is seeking your urgent intervention regarding torture victim, J.V. Saman Priyankara, who was arrested at his house by ten police officers on 7 Jul...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal detention of Terrance Fernando from 21 February to 25 June 2004 at the Kaduruwela Police Station in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of further death threats to torture victim and tuberculosis patient Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara, since he has be...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of the information that several officers of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka has been harassed and intimidated...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the defense lawyer of R.K.L.G. Dingiri Banda who had filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Cour...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed of a letter sent by the Bar Association to the Wattala police station, in which the lawyers complained that police officers have been i...

Dear friends The justice dispensation system in Sri Lanka suffers from the petty mindedness of the Government, which often fails to recognize the necessity for infrastructure for its proper functionin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned at the death threats to the family of torture victim Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara. According to the information receiv...