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Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about another severe torture case from Kandy, Sri Lanka. According to the information received, Shiron Jeewantha Pallekan...
Protecting victims requires defence of principles and effective institutions Asian Human Rights Commission December 10, 2003 Today the very foundation upon which human rights stand is under att...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that torture victim Mahadura Pandula Sri Thaminda was arrested by police officers from the Kandy Police Station on fabricated...
The impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka is now before the Parliament with the signatures of a hundred members of Parliament in support. Meanwhile a proposal by President Chand...
[RE: UP-45-2003: Michael Anthony Fernando freed and given an Asian human rights award, UP-26-2003: Update on Mr Michael Anthony Emmanuel Fernando (‘Tony’), UP-19-2003, UP-14-2003, UA-09-20...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that S.L. Kulatunga had serious head injuries after being tortured by the Nivithigala police and died at the Genral Hospital of Colomb...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes with grave concern that the father and mother of torture victim Dawundage Pushpakumara (14 years old) have left their home due to threats fr...
By suspending parliament and calling the police and military onto the streets this November 4, the President of Sri Lanka has undermined ongoing efforts to restore the rule of law to the country by wa...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 16-year old boy was brutally tortured by the police. The manner of torture was so brutal that clear evidence of viol...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a seven-year-old boy has been illegally detained and tortured by the police from the Polpithigame Police Station. Ac...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on another serious torture case in Sri Lanka. According to information we have received, an innocent man was brutally tor...
The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Dato Param Cumaraswamy, expressed serious concerns over judicial integrity in Asia during a speech delivered i...
SRI LANKA: Update on Michael Anthony Fernando (Tony) —————————————————————...
This 5 October 2003, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission decided to present its inaugural Human Rights Defenders Award to Mr Michael Anthony Fernando, in recognition of his str...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that there was a threat to the life of the torture victim Lalith Rajapakse. Lalith Rajapakse, who was tortured by the pol...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was severely tortured by the police officers after he was illegally arrested. Currently, the victim is in seri...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two young men were illegally arrested and tortured by the police officers after they tried to make a complaint about...
Case of Lalith Rajapakse before the Wattala Magistrate’s Court ——————————————————̵...
Senior judges premature resignation calls for a thorough review of Sri Lankas judiciary The leading prelates of Sri Lanka have made strong pleas for Justice Mark Fernando to stay in his post despi...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has grave concerns that the family of torture victim, Dawundage Pushpakumara (14 years old), is being threatened by the police and a local politic...
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