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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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a new bill that was illegally passed by the government in Pakistan in order to drag the country’s workers into condi...

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...

The Criminal Procedure Code of India has been amended to include a provision for plea bargaining with effect from 7 June 2006. The new chapter in the statute, Chapter XXI A, allows plea bargaining to ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a case of rape of a minor from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum based in Katmandu – Nepal. The incide...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a sixty-five year-old woman named Mrs. Nayan Banu was beaten to death by three police men from the Savar Police Sta...

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...

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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman named Mrs. Rasheda Khatun, the Family Planning Inspector (FPI) of the health and family planning department...

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 ...

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...

On June 21 the National Assembly passed the annual Finance Bill, with effect from July 1. Or did it? And what was it that was passed anyway?  By law, the Finance Bill is passed to establish the annua...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Hathazari police in Chittagong District arbitrarily arrested six persons in the early morning of 29 June 2006. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that an alleged rapist has been granted bail by a judge of the Special Tribunal of Women and Children Repression Prevention of ...

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 ...

In recent days there have been reports that the Minister of Law, Justice and Human Rights in Pakistan has embezzled large amounts of Norwegian money that was allocated for human rights victims. Accord...