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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights groups that a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) was gang-raped by five army soldiers from Eastern...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces with great shock and sadness that Gerald Mervin Perera, who was due to give evidence in court against seven police officers accused of torture, passe...

Since the attempted murder on last Sunday, November 21 of Gerald Perera, a victim of police torture in Sri Lanka, no protection has been provided to either him or his family. Gerald, who was shot in a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) provides you the updated information below regarding the case of Mr. Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was shot by an unknown person on 21 Nove...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 21-year-old Don Mahesh Duminda Weerasuriya was illegally arrested and tortured by the officers of the Panadura Nort...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by a new report from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization, of a person named Jeewan Sharestha being detaine...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that a person named Dipak Rakshit was assaulted by a gang of cri...

Unidentified assailants shot dead a High Court judge in Colombo on Friday, 12 November 2004. This is the first such instance in recent times, despite the fact that High Courts in Sri Lanka hear the mo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Gerald Perera, a torture victim in Sri Lanka who had earlier received the highest compensation pay-out and who has ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today extends its deepest sympathies to the families of Colombo High Court Judge Sarath Ambepitiya and his bodyguard Inspector Upali Bandara, as well as the pe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. D.G. Premathilaka, who was illegally arrested and tortured by the Katugastota Police from 8 to 9 January 2004, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 20-year-old Mr. Pushparaj Kanagaraj was severely tortured by a drunk officer of the Pussellawa Police Station for s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police constable Prasanna of the Keselwatta Police Station, Sri Lanka has not been arrested despite several request...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu, a local human rights organization, regarding the suspicious deaths of Mr. Veerapan...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you the need for the Indian Government to provide witness protection in all trials related to the Gujarat pogrom.   Over 2,000 Indian...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the case of Mullakandage Lasantha Jagath Kumara, who was tortured to death by police officers of Payagala Police St...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three young men, namely Bishwanath Parajuli (also called Nagendra Parajuli), Tomnath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 23-year-old Mr. E.R. Kumara was arbitrarily arrested and tortured by Kalutara North police officers on 14 October 2...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a 15-year-old boy named Suranga Priyan Moraes was severely assaulted by his teachers at St. Servatius’ College, Mata...

[RE: FA-12-2004: PAKISTAN: Girls killed for visiting grandparents without permission in another ‘honour killing’ on 11 May 2004; UP-23-2004: PAKISTAN: Three of the nine perpetrators were a...