The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) has written to the Human Rights Commission of…
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Requiring plebiscite to enact 20-A: LFP to file spl determination petition in SC
A group of lawyers will be filing a special determination petition before the Supreme Court next…
Lawyer refused recording of affidavit by Prison authorities
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners alleged that attempts made by them to obtain an…
Parents lodge complaint with HRCSL
The parents of a Mahara Prison inmate who recently died under suspicious circumstances lodged a complaint…
Thwarted Mahara jailbreak: CPRP raises concerns on liveability within prisons
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP), while criticizing attempts by inmates to escape as…
Prisoners Rights Group condemns A’pura Prison deaths
The Committee for Protecting the Rights of Prisoners vehemently condemned the recent deaths of two prisoners…
JSC green lights release of certain prisoners
The Judicial Service Commission in a circular issued today (26) has laid down guidelines to be…
Prisons Ordinance doesn’t prohibit private hospital treatment – CPRP
The Committee for Protecting the Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) pointed out that there was no provision…
Magazine Prison incident: Police record statement from CPRP Chairman
The Crime Detection Unit of the Borella Police Station, yesterday (2), recorded a statement from the…
Ensuring prisoners’ franchise: JVP proposes PSC
The National People’s Power Movement and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) announced that they would propose the…