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The father of two young girls will be hanged in the early hours of October 8, 2008 at Adiala jail after being convicted on a charge of murder on April 14, 1998. Mr. Zulfiqar Ali, the condemned prisone...

To the recipients of communications through the AHRC network, Rizana Nafeek is a familiar name. The 17-year-old girl from a poor family from a conflict ridden area with a passport indicating her age a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an appeal about the impending execution of a man which is scheduled to be carried out on October 8. The ‘red warrant’ ha...

According to information issued by the Ambassador for Pakistan in the United States Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was missing along with her three children since March 2003 and arrested by American military...

A statement by army commander Lt. General Fonseka published in the National Post in Canada, saying that “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese, but there are minority com...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a detainee whom we reported previously to have been detained for over two years without charges filed in court has continu...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that Mr. Akash, a human rights defender as well as journalist, has been facing unfair trial in an allegedly fals...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the soldiers responsible for illegally arresting and assaulting a man have remained free. They have not been held accou...

Dr. W.D.L. Indunil, a young lady doctor attached to Bandagiriya Central Dispensary in the southern Hambanthota district, was shot dead on the 29th of September, allegedly by an army officer. Dr. Indun...

Yesterday (September 30, 2008) at 1:30 pm an unknown person tried to enter the premises of Transparency International (TI) Sri Lanka at the address 28/1 Bullers Lane, Colombo. The TI officers obstruct...

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the grenade attack on 27 September against prominent Sri Lankan human rights lawyer, J.C Weliamuna, and calls on the Government of Sri L...

There is no universally agreed definition for the term terrorism. In the absence of a common definition, particularly when the argument – one state’s ‘terrorist’ is another sta...

September 30, 2008 SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to Lawyers and Intervene to defend the lawyers of Sri Lanka against attacks, threats and intimidation The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) based in Hon...

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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention a serious threat to the lawyers who practice their profession independently and particularly those who appear f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wants to inform you that a torture victim Ms. Sumitra Khawas, who had remained detained at the Area Police Office (APO) of Belbari, has been tran...

At the plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL) held on 22 September 2008 the Bishops shared their concerns about the plight of the as a result of the ongoing war in t...

All eyes have now turned to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka as to how effective their actions will be in the aftermath of a grenade attack on the house of a senior lawyer, Mr. J.C. Weliamuna, on nigh...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a blogger was sentenced to three months in prison for expressing his opinion on the judiciary of Singapore over the...

(Hong Kong, September 28, 2008) Last night at 11:40 pm in Colombo, Sri Lanka a grenade was thrown inside the house of the leading lawyer J.C. Weliamuna, who is the Executive Director of Transparency I...