Amnesty has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard asking her to protect the rights of Sri Lankan asylum seekers and begin processing their claims, reports China's Xinhua news agency.
The human rights group's Sri Lanka researcher Yolanda Foster said more than 10,000 people were still in detention without charge in the country, suspected of links to Tamil rebels, following the end of a long-running civil war.
"No area in Sri Lanka is entirely safe if someone has run afoul of an armed group or a powerful politician, been identified as a critic of the government or is suspected in some way of being ' anti-government'," Foster said in a statement.
There were reports of torture and disappearances, and allegations of people being killed.
The three-month suspension set by the Australian government ends on July 8.
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