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[UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Hospital due to mistaken identity; UP-51-2005: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a w...

The police have begun investigating a case of alleged negligence resulting in a woman’s leg being wrongly amputated at the Negombo Base Hospital in Sri Lanka. They are pursuing the matter under ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from the Social Development Foundation (SDF) in Delhi concerning a disturbing case of potential hunger and starvatio...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault of a 10-year-old pupil by a schoolteacher on 12 May 2005 for not giving a satisfactory ans...

NEPAL: Exceptional collapse of rule of law; Re-arrests; Undermining of court orders; Re-arrest ———————————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the illegal detention of a young boy, Rajiv, a class IX stu...

INDIA: Disappearance; Potential police cover-up; Police failure to properly investigate; failure of West Bengal Human Rights Commission to properly assess police investigations and report. —R...

From May 12 to 14, 2005 the Asian Human Rights Commission held a consultation in Hong Kong with a group of forensic and legal professionals to discuss the interplay between forensic science and human ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the abuse of a poor coconut vendor at the hands of the Bor...

Asian Tribune joins the smear campaign against the victim of negligent amputation and In a article, purportedly written by Sunil C. Perera, to the Asian Tribune the author attacks the story of Sitthi ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man while in police custody at the Rakwana Police Station, Sri Lanka. Helwala Langachcharige Su...

The increase in death threats and intimidation to activists and journalists in Sri Lanka are alarming. In particular, there is concern that the situation may degenerate into that similar to the terror...

The agreement this April to establish a United Nations monitoring mission in Nepal, which was endorsed in a resolution passed at the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2005/L....

In a landmark judgment, the U.N. Human Rights Committee has held that Sri Lanka, as a state party to the Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, violated one of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a woman, Shiroma Doreen Fernando (41), who died due to a transfusion with the incorrect blood typ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding a lawyer who first failed his client and then allegedl...

Within the last two weeks alone, the Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on three cases of alleged gross medical negligence in Sri Lanka. First, a 48-year-old mother alleged that her healthy le...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about the continued inaction and disregard by the authorities of Surat, Gujarat, India in investigating and prosecuting the ...

[Re: UP-51-2005: SRI LANKA: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a woman’s leg, UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Ho...

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...