Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong An x-ray of the Sri Lankan policing system & torture of the poor is the third report produced on police torture and other abuses […]
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Victims of crime and the judiciary
K C Kamalasabesan, Attorney General, Sri Lanka In the recent past the Department of Attorney General in Sri Lanka has had several workshops, seminars and presentations on the rights of […]
Urgent Appeals File: Tissa Kumara–Incomprehensible cruelty & systemic neglect in Sri Lanka
Asian Human Rights Commission Footnote: This article is the compilation of a number of appeals that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made on the case of Tissa […]
Graceful apologies and the pain of victims: Consideration of Sri Lanka’s periodic reports to the UN Committee against Torture
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, Convenor, Rule of Law Centre, Colombo Footnote: Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena is a public interest lawyer and writer based in Sri Lanka. She is a columnist for the Sunday […]
Remarks at the launch of ‘Endemic torture and the collapse of policing in Sri Lanka’
Professor Michael Davis, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong Asia is the only part of the world without any regional human rights institutions, and when I read this […]
A comment on ‘Endemic torture and the collapse of policing in Sri Lanka’
Jack Clancey, Lawyer, Hong Kong Reading the descriptions in this report on the torture carried out by the police in many parts of Sri Lanka reminded me that in 1776 […]
Torturing and killing the innocent
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 […]
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 […]