Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Annual Report 2006 - Sri Lanka
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14 March 2007
Status of the investigation into the attack against the headquarters of the Human Rights Commission115
As of the end of 2006, the investigation into the attack against the headquarters of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Colombo established that the attack was likely planned from inside the organisation. However, the authors of the assault had still not been arrested nor prosecuted.
On October 12, 2005, HRC headquarters in Colombo were attacked and searched, and documents relating to the Commission's investigations were burnt.
Upon their arrival at the office, the members of the Commission immediately went to the police station and filed a complaint. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) was charged with investigating into the incident.
The Human Rights Commission, a national human rights institution, was established in 1997 to conduct independent investigations into complaints against alleged human rights abuses committed by the executive and administrative services, in particular those perpetrated by the police.
[Refworld note: This report as posted on the FIDH website (www.fidh.org) was in pdf format with country chapters run together by region. Footnote numbers have been retained here, so do not necessarily begin at 1.]
115. See Annual Report 2005.
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