December 14, 2011December 14, 2011
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-247-2011
SRI LANKA: A woman is arbitrarily detained for more than forty months without access to fair trial
ISSUES: Illegal arrest; arbitrary detention; torture; fabrication of charges; denial of fair trial; violation of women's rights; impunity; rule of law
Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a woman named Ms. Anthony Chandra, who is mother of three minor aged girls of below 11 years of age, has been detained for more than forty months in twelve fabricated charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act of Sri Lanka. The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of Kandy illegally arrested Chandra and detained arbitrarily in those fabricated charges for not telling the whereabouts of her husband whom the police suspect as a member of erstwhile ethnic group Liberation of Tamil Tigers Elam (LTTE). She has never been allowed to have her right to fair trial for the fabricated charges against her. Please intervene urgently to insist the Sri Lankan authorities to release Chandra immediately and drop the fabricated charges unless her right to fair trial is protected. Full Story>>>
