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Dear friends, Following in the footsteps of four cases of abuse of students by their teachers in Sri Lanka in recent months, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has now learned of yet another inc...

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault; falsified charges; denial of medial treatment; police inaction; failure to conduct an investigation; collapse of rule of law ———————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a reliable source regarding the repeated psychological and physical torture of Ms. Meena Gharti Magar by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a student, M Rukman Asanka Perera by his school Buddhism teacher, Hiriwewe Gnaneswara on 9 Marc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is in receipt of information regarding the torture of Mr. Nar Bahadur Bista by police personnel from Mahendranagar District Police Office on 1 Ma...

[RE: UP-032-2006: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Tissa Kumara wins fundamental rights application at the Supreme Court; UP-023-2006: SRI LANKA: Threats made against Koraleliyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara mus...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), of the death of Mousami Raha, who died due to burns to 90%...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 39-year-old farmer from Pitigala Hill, Kalavana by two policemen from the Kalavana pol...

In an attempt to fill Sri Lanka’s legal lacuna, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has adopted a draft Contempt of Court Act to be submitted to the government this month, March 2005. The draft bro...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal attacks on opposition party activist, Mr. Zahirul Islam Litu, by members of the youth wing of the r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 8-year-old, UG Isani Madushani by her class teacher, Sarath on 22 February 2006. On Febr...

[RE: UP-031-2006: SRI LANKA: Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga; UA-006-2006: SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest, detention and to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 76-year-old Mr. K Victor Fernando by Police Constable Ratwatte of the Panadura South pol...

Two recent reports in the Sri Lankan press (see Daily Mirror, 7th March 2006) have brought to light statements made by the Director General of the Commission of Bribery and Corruption and the Inspecto...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture case of Chamara Nimantha who was brutally tortured and had fabricated charges laid against...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations from Kerala, India. The local police continue to use torture and assault as...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a young couple, namely Mr. D. Indika Wasantha and Mrs. Kumudini Malkanthi, by the Rathgama...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-033-2006 March 6, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)  SRI LANKA: Delays in courts – everyone’s karume The expression by a High Court jud...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the acute hunger and exploitation of villagers ...