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SRI LANKA: Panadura North Police fabricate charges against a man, who is later tortured by Kalutara prison guards

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was taken to court by the police and remanded for 18 days on tenuous grounds, with limited and fabricated e...

SRI LANKA: Conversations on the Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly — the state of freedom of expression and opinion in Sri Lanka currently 

The Asian Human Rights Commission has compiled and published in sequence, the recent exchanges of views regarding the column on ‘the appalling silence of the good among us’ in the Sunday Times ̵...

SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to all Parliamentarians on the need to urgently deal with Lawlessness in the Police 

I am writing this on behalf of the Asian Human Rights Commission on a matter that is, I am sure that of great importance and urgency to all the members of parliament, whatever political party they mig...

SRI LANKA: Criteria to measure human rights improvements 

“Has protection of the minorities improved? What about those detained because they are suspected of having had links to the LTTE, without any evidence to that effect? What about the human rights...

SRI LANKA: When the law becomes comic – Part 10 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When the Law becomes comic – Part 9 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 8 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Seven 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: The government should appoint a group of Supreme Court Judges to inquire into the police extrajudicial killings 

Basil Fernando Large crowds gathered around the Angulana police station today (13th of August) as the news spread of two schoolboys killed due to police assault. The bodies of the two boys, Dinesh Tha...

ASIA: Open letter to the UN General Assembly regarding the 12th session of the Human Rights Council 

To: The Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency, As the Human Rights Council prepares for its 12th regular session, the first session with the new members elected in May 2009, we writ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Six 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian forw...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 5 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Four

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: Amnesty calls for detention camps to be unlocked 

Posted: 10 August 2009 Equivalent of Bournemouth’s population live, eat and sleep in area size of Wembley Stadium Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent...

SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan government bars media from covering elections in North 

Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka out rightly condemn the Sri Lankan government’s decision not to allow independent media representatives to cover the first local elections in two main northern ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Three 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian, a news portal in Sri Lanka. The article is part three of a series of articles from the column, Freedom of Thoug...

SRI LANKA: Two men are shot, illegally detained and charged with a fabricated offence by Urubokka police

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the botched arrest and shooting of two men by Urubokka police officers, who then fabricated their charges. T...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – part 1 & 2 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian, a news portal in Sri Lanka. The article is the compilation of two separate articles from the column, Freedom of...

SRI LANKA: Police torture a taxi driver for the drug crimes of his passengers

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police officers have arrested the driver of a three-wheel taxi in Wattala and tortured him severely to force a confession. Dur...

SRI LANKA: Adopt International Inquiry for Aid Worker Killings 

Date: 2009/8/4 For Immediate Release Sri Lanka: Adopt International Third Anniversary of ACF Murders Marked by Government Inaction, Intimidation (New York, August 3, 2009) – The Sri Lankan government...