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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Vidhanelage Ajith Wickramage, who was arbitrarily arrested by police officers from the Galewela Po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of the rescue of underage girls from forced prostitution launched by Guria, a human rights or...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a man due to severe torture by the Railway Po...

The way that justice is administered by the courts in any country directly affects the national spirit. Whether or not the spirit of enthusiasm, energy and cooperation prevails in a particular society...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the o...

That the practice of law is a devastated profession within the country is something all Sri Lankan lawyers will lament about. In fact, lawyers have very little impact when representing their clients, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) and other sources regarding the hunger s...

A rather disturbing situation has arisen Sri Lanka in recent weeks. The Inspector General of Police has begun to openly challenge the National Police Commission (NPC), which is a constitutional body c...

INDIA: Assault; murder; inaction by police and hospital authorities; failure of justice; rule of law Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information stating that the main suspect in the alleged rape incident of a female passenger in transit to Kuwait, at the Bandaranai...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and disturbing case of rape of a 14 year-old girl in the town of Talawakelle.  The young girl was ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the resolution adopted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) to introduce a . BASL appointed a committee comprising a former chief justice and two forme...

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest and detention; Alleged torture; Post-custodial death; Police misconduct; Impunity; Rule of law ———————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just received information on two cases of inhuman police torture committed separately by the Matara police and Hikkaduwa police.  In the fir...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attempt by Guria, a human rights organization in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, to rescue ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peace Worldwide, a human rights organization in Islamabad, Pakistan regarding an extrajudicial killing of a you...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Forum for Indigenous Perspectives and Action in Manipur, India regarding human rights violations committed by t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, who was severely beaten by policemen who arrested him at a par...