Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre What characterises victims of torture by the police in Sri Lanka? First, they are poor people. Secondly, they are innocent of whatever […]
Month: February 2004
State-sponsored violence in Sri Lanka
Asian Legal Resource Centre & World Organisation Against Torture Footnote: This is the edited text of the first part of the alternative report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee […]
Recent cases of torture and killing committed by the police in Sri Lanka
Asian Human Rights Commission Police in Sri Lanka committed the following cases of torture and killing between January 2003 and February 2004. The 31 cases and 46 victims of 29 […]
Introduction: Endemic torture and the collapse of policing in Sri Lanka
— Editorial Board, article 2 This is the second special report released by the Asian Legal Resource Centre in article 2on torture and policing in Sri Lanka. ‘Torture committed by […]
General recommendations to the UN Human Rights Committee on torture in Sri Lanka
Asian Legal Resource Centre & World Organisation Against Torture Footnote: This is the edited text of the general recommendations of the alternative report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee […]
Appendix V: Guarantees for individuals deprived of their liberty
Professor Theo van Boven, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Footnote: This material is taken from the third part of the 2004 advance edited version of the report of the United […]
Appendix III: A public hearing on the torture of children
Human Rights Correspondence School, Asian Human Rights Commission Footnote: This text is adapted from Lesson Series 32 of the Human Rights Correspondence School (Asian Human Rights Commission), ‘A public hearing […]
Appendix IV: Rights of the victims of crime
Janasansadaya Footnote: This is the text of a pamphlet recently published by Janasansadaya (People’s Forum), for public distribution. The victims of crime have the right to make complaints by telephone […]
Appendix II: Relevant concluding observations of the UN Human Rights Committee on the periodic report of Sri Lanka, 2003
Footnote: This appendix consists of extracts from the concluding observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the periodic report of Sri Lanka examined at its seventy-ninth session (CCPR/CO/79/LKA […]
Appendix I: Draft complaint procedure for implementation of article 155G(2) of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka
Asian Human Rights Commission Footnote: This draft complaint procedure for the implementation of article 155G(2) of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka was duly submitted to Mr […]