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J. R. Jayewardene bent the Constitution of this Country to suit him………..

“You have a de jure judgment in your favour but the other person has a de facto Order in his favour. If you take writ out there is a possibility that you would be hauled up before the Kangaroo Court for contempt of Court. You must decide what you should do.” Justice C. V. Wigneswaran
Read More... [ 02:16 AM Thursday April 25th, 2013 ]

Supreme Court granted leave to proceed for two fundamental rights petitions.

1) Twenty four years old Sameera Sampath filled a fundamental rights petition at the Supreme Court against Paiyagala Police seeking declaration of infringement of his fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 11, 12 (1), 13(1), 13(2) and 13(5) of the Constitution of Sri Lanka.
Read More... [ 03:04 AM Thursday August 16th, 2012 ]

PERIOD OF DETENTION IN CUSTODY

“There is no basis for the new Bill. Custodial torture is endemic in this country and this would worsen the situation,”
Read More... [ 05:42 AM Monday June 25th, 2012 ]

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The accused to face retrial - Gerald Perera torture case- : The Court of Appeal today ordered the retrial on the case of torture of Gerald Perera.The High Court judge of Negombo, Ms. J.M.T.M.P.U. Tennakoon acquitted all the six accused on April 2, 2008. At the Court of Appeal today the president of the court, Sisira de Abrew and Justice K.T. Chitrasiri made the judgement quashing the acquittal of four accused and ordering the retrial. Read More

PRESENT PLIGHT OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA : Some investigation officers of the HRC maintain unethical relationships with perpetrators ……..There is even a person who is minor staff grade who is performing the duties of an investigation officer. Read More

Universal Periodic Review - Sri Lanka 2012 : submission made to UPR- Sri Lanka 2012on behalf of Janasansadaya and Citizen’ Committee of Gampaha Read More

Development Proposal for the Medico-Legal Service in Sri Lanka : Medico-legal service in any country serves as an important tool in the criminal justice system of that society. The medico-legal system in Sri Lanka was established during the latter part of the British colonial period in the late ....... Read More

: The Asian Human Rights Commission, with the collaboration of Janasansadaya, donated a Computer to assist Date-base development Programme of Judicial Medical Officers. Read More

Charity hands UN file to back Sri Lankan torture claims : medical evidence to support allegations that authorities there are continuing to torture opponents Read More

How does a police like this exist today ? : It is integral that those who think that the Sri Lanka police needs training take time to find out and study how the police interact in their day to day dealings with the general public in keeping the peace and enforcing the law. Read More

An Inspector of Police brutally assault a Police Sergeant : It was reported that a Police Sergeant attached to Inginiyagala Police Station(Uva Provonce) was brutally assaulted by the Officer in Charge of the said Police Station Read More

දිනේෂ් ප්රිායංකර - මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩුවට අවසර ලැබෙයි.: දිනේෂ් ප්රි්යංකර සහ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයින් තමන්ට එල්ලවූ තර්ජන බලපෑම් නොතකා, තමන්ගේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් උල්ලංඝණය කල පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්ට හා එයට සම්බන්ධ වූ සියලු දෙනාට එරෙහිව ශ්රේිෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ඉදිරියට ගියේය. Read More

වධකයෝ රැකෙත්වා!! දිනේවා !!!: මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂමේ නිගමනයන් හා නිර්දේශයන් ආරක්ෂකයෝ පයිසෙකටවත් ගණන් නොතනීත Read More

චු කරන තැනින් අල්ලා උඩට උස්සලා මරණවා කිව්වා.....: 15 හැවරිදි පාසැල් සිසුවකුට යටවත්ත පොලිසිය දස වධ දි ව්‍යාජ චොදනා නගා නඩු දමා ඇති අතර, ඔහුගේ පාසල් දිවියද අනතුඑට පත්ව තිබේ. Read More

උඹලාට මෙහෙම ගහලා මදි- මැරෙනකම්ම ගහන්න ඔනි.: මාතලේ ඇල්ලවල මහා විදුහලේ විදුහග්පති ගොඩගෙදර අපරාධයෙන් ගලවන්න පෙරමුණගෙන ඇත්තේ චිවරධාරියෙක්. Read More

Police must be given language training: SC : The Supreme Court yesterday said the police should be given language training on how to deal with the public since according to many fundamental rights cases filed against the police, it was repeatedly reported that the police had been abusing the public in filth. Read More

මිරිහාන පොලිස් වධකාගාරය - මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩුවට අවසර ලැබේ.: පෙත්සම සලකා බැලූ ශ්රෙසෂ්ඨාධිකරණය නඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට අවසර ලබාදුන් අතර, ඉදිරියට වගඋත්තරකරුවන් විසින් රංජිත් සුමංගලට අයුතු බලපෑම් එල්ල කරන ලැබුවහොත් ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය පියවර ගන්නා ලෙසට ද නියම කරනු ලැබීය. Read More

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