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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-4 in the name of ‘crossfire’ on 9 March 2006. The man was arrested ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the failure to investigate the brutal assault on Rathnasiri Senadheera by Superintendent of Police Sal...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a pregnant woman, who is diabetic patient, was tortured by the police on the street and in a prison van on 12 M...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the illegal arrest and detention of a man by the Gokarella police, despite the latter being informed that t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of an incident whereby two policemen from Poddala police are alleged to have repeatedly tortured a mentally ill man, who the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that seven-year-old P.W. Tharanga Kumara, a student of Gonapinuwela Saralankara School, Gonapinuwela, Galle District, Sr...

While the incident of two Supreme Court judges resigning on the basis of matters of conscience is still very much a part of the public debate, the Auditor General of Sri Lanka has now also come under ...

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...