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There are only few days to end 2020.  Beginning of this year, on the 19th of January, we heard the sad news that a police officer had accidentally fired a gun at a monk who was walking down the street and died. However, the situation has now reached a critical level.  The number of suspects […]

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has written to the Director of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital regarding the bodies of the remandees from the Mahara Prison. The letter sent by the Human Rights Commission is as follow.

In 1948, every fundamental and inherent human right of all citizens with no exception to their nationality, sex and gender was set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Since its formal inception in the 1950s, the Universal Declaration has been accepted in more than

With the Covid-19 epidemic, people in entire world are under intense pressure.  Many people have to live with severe mental and physical stress due to issues such as survival from the plague, loss of loved ones, loss of income or problems with survival due to job loss.  At the same time, they are facing the

Eight inmates were killed, and 43 others were injured in a riot at Mahara Prison last evening (29), Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said. He said that some incidents were reported in the prison this morning (30) and that five police teams and police special task force were working to control the situation The reman

Buddhi was 14 years and a Grade 10 student at Nindana Maha Vidayalaya the time of the incident. On 7th March 2008 at 3:30pm, Buddhi was at home with his mother when four police officers including the then Officer in Charge of the Meetiyagoda Police Station, a Home Guard and a civilian accompanying the police

The Journalists for Rights Collective said that general public and journalists who using social media should not be arrested for an offence that can only be prevented by warning. At the same time, they urge the authorities to stop using social medias to intimidate users, journalists and the community by using the social media as

Currently, 2,000 deaths and 200,000 new infections are reported in Europe in a one day, and it takes approximately ten days for these numbers to double.  If this situation is not brought under control, hospitals in the worst-affected countries will be overcrowded and it will take only a few more weeks for the public to

So far 146 Sri Lankans have died due to the rapidly spreading Covid 19 epidemic around the world. Most of the deaths were from migrant Sri Lankans, with 98 reported deaths. The death toll in Sri Lanka so far is 48. Most of the deaths abroad are reported to be from Middle Eastern countries. Thirty-five

At the police station, they were severely tortured. According to the family, the family members were denied access to the suspects and the police denied having abducted or taken them into custody. Later, on information received by the family, they inquired from the Kuda oya Police and heard the both suspects shouting “Buddhu sir please do

Asian Human Rights Commission has released a statement on their website regarding the death of Gayana Pushpakumara. Statement is as follow.. On October 11, a young man Gayan Pushpkumar, 21, was arrested by the officers of the Pugoda Police Station on mistaken identity. Initially, he was suspected of having robbed some money. However, later, the