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Sri Lanka: Prominent Muslim politician and government critic arrested

A prominent Muslim politician and government critic arrested today in Sri Lanka must be immediately released or charged with an internationally recognizable criminal offence, Amnesty International said.
Azad Sally, the leader of Sri Lanka’s newly formed Muslim Tamil National Alliance, was reportedly taken into custody on Thursday morning by the intelligence services for unknown reasons.
Sally has […]

By Amnesty International | Published on May 4, 2013 at 11:38 am

Amnesty International Human Rights Report 2012

The government continued to arbitrarily detain, torture or ill-treat people and subject people to enforced disappearance. It failed to address most instances of impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The government rejected repeated allegations of war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict that ended in 2009, prompting Amnesty International to […]

By Amnesty International | Published on May 25, 2012 at 7:44 am

Sri Lanka’s shameful record on detention without trial

“The security regime that was a hallmark of war continues after the LTTE’s defeat – little has changed” - Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director.
Hundreds of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of the country’s long conflict, Amnesty International said in […]

By Amnesty International | Published on March 14, 2012 at 3:07 am

Commonwealth leaders must stop Sri Lanka hosting key summit in 2013

The Commonwealth risks becoming ‘irrelevant’ if its leaders allow Sri Lanka to become its next host, Amnesty International said today ahead of the organization’s biennial summit.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) begins in Perth, Australia today, with Sri Lanka due to chair the next summit in 2013 despite an appalling human rights record.
“It’s absurd […]

By Amnesty International | Published on October 28, 2011 at 8:36 pm