Pitabeddara Police Torture Case Personal details of the victim The victim name is Dodampe Gamage Asantha Aravinda, 25years old from Pitabeddara of Galle district of Sri Lanka who is a businessman & married person. Incident On the 28th of February 2008, Dodampe Gamage Asantha Aravinda and a friend of him left to Pitabeddara, Southern province, […]
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Personal details of the victim The victim name is Gunasekara Arachchilage Niluka Krishanthi, 30years old from Kurunegala district of Sri Lanka. She is married and have a child. She had planned to go abroad for job as a housemaid. Incident On the 10th of October, 2005, Gunasekara Arachchilage Niluka Krishanthi, who was a passenger being
Rape case in the Bandaranayake International Airport at Katunayake. Read More »
Personal details of the victim The victim name is Jerad Mervin Perera, 42years old from Wattala, gampaha district of the island. He was married person and worked in the Colombo dockyard. Incident On the 14th June of 2002 Jerad Mervin Perera was arrested by Police officers attached to Wattala Police station, accusing for a triple
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The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka started an investigation into a group of police officers accused of inhumanly attacking a house in Jaffna during the curfew. The Human Rights Commission has asked the police headquarters in Jaffna to act against six police officers attached to Vaddukukoddai Police Station who are accused of attacking a
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Corona is currently spreading around the world, virus race, gender, nationality or sexual orientation do not feel that different. However, infection prevention and survivors the opportunity to improve is undoubtedly one of the important points is that wealth. Like very natural occurrence of epidemics, coronavirus is intersecting with the reality of a society riven by
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On 5th February 2019, Public Awareness first program started from the Kandy. As a per-publicity we were about to distribute leaflets and Posters but it was canceled due to the legal situation based on Kandy. Discussion was mainly focused on torture related issues and political issue in the country. The program was held at Sri
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For the past one week, the self-help organization, Sarvodaya Organization and Social Welfare Association of Kotagala has been providing free shelter to the people living in Kotagala and providing dry food items to the families in order to protect the people from coronavirus(covid -19).
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GENEVA (30 March 2020) – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has issued detailed advices on a range of actions governments and independent monitoring bodies should take to protect people deprived of their liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic. The public advice provides measures for authorities concerning all places of deprivation of liberty, including prisons, immigration detention facilities,
