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Category: Press Statements – Sri Lanka

Joint statement: Sri Lanka – End arbitrary arrests, reprisals against human rights defenders and activists advocating for education rights

September 30, 2021
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

We the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn the ongoing persecution and reprisals by Sri Lankan authorities against student leaders, […]

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SAHR expresses its heartfelt condolences on the demise of Mrs Manouri Muttetuwegama

July 28, 2021
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of Human Rights Defenders, expresses its heartfelt condolences on the demise […]

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SAHR demands an impartial inquiry into the recent deaths of five individuals while in police custody or killed due to police negligence

June 11, 2021
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the recent deaths of five individuals […]

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SAHR expresses concern over the year-long detention of poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem

May 18, 2021
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses deep concern over the year-long detention of Sri […]

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SAHR expresses concern over Sri Lankan authorities insisting on mandatory cremation for Muslims who died of COVID- 19

November 13, 2020
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of Human Rights Defenders, expresses its concern over Sri Lankan authorities insisting […]

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Sri Lanka: Human Rights Under Attack

July 29, 2020
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

Lawyers, Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Arrested, Threatened, Intimidated 29 July 2020: The Sri Lankan government should end the targeted […]

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SAHR Questions the Presidential Pardon of former Army Sergeant Sunil Rathnayake

March 29, 2020
Press Statements - Sri Lanka
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SAHR vehemently condemns the measures taken by the Sri Lankan President to execute four prisoners

June 27, 2019
Press Statements - Sri Lanka
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SAHR expresses concerns on your call for reviving the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses

April 5, 2019
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

H. E Maithirpala SirisenaThe PresidentPresidential Secretariat,Colombo 01, Sri Lanka. Your Excellency, SAHR expresses concerns on your call for reviving the […]

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Year-long protests in Sri Lanka highlight regional issue of enforced disappearances

March 12, 2018
Press Statements - Sri Lanka

Families of the disappeared in north and east Sri Lanka – predominantly mothers and wives – marked a year of […]

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Recent Posts

  • Voicing the concerns of South Asians, SAHR resolutely demands the governments of India & Pakistan to immediately de-escalate the current war situation
  • SAHR vehemently condemns the terrorist attack against 26 tourists in Indian administered Kashmir
  • SAHR Strongly Condemns the Arbitrary Arrests and Detentions in Balochistan and Urges Immediate Release
  • SAHR calls on the Government of Bangladesh to uphold the right to peaceful protest
  • SAHR is deeply alarmed by threats and intimidation faced by journalist sand Judges in Pakistan

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