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An Open Letter to His Excellency the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia The Asian Human Rights Commission has sent the following letter to His Excellency the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. ...

We are forwarding two articles which appeared in the Arab News.Com relating to Rizana Nafeek who is facing the death sentence in Saudi Arabia. The first article is from a prominent citizen of Saudi ...

ISLAMABAD Oct 31: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed concern over non-arrest of officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) who ruthlessly tortured and inflected more t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) illegally arrested a lawyer named Mr. Mantu Ghosh detained him in a number of f...

A prominent Muslim leader in Sri Lanka was reported today to have announced that prayers will be offered at the Mosque in Sri Lanka on behalf of Rizana Nafeek, a young girl who is facing the death sen...

A young man has disappeared from police custody after being raped by two police officials. The police officials have been arrested after protests by the villagers but the young man has not been recove...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that in recent days illegal arrests, abduction, killings and disappearances by the law enforcement agencies have increased in B...

(Hong Kong, October 29, 2010) Following the arrest of the student leader, Mr. Udul Premarathne, the Asian Human Rights Commission has today written to the Inspector General of Police of Sri Lanka, Mr....

The Asian Human Rights Commission earnestly requests the kind intervention of all persons of the Muslim faith to kindly intervene to save the life of an innocent Sri Lankan girl who went to Saudi Arab...

Hundreds of families of disappeared persons will gather at Raddoluwa Junction at Seeduwa, Sri Lanka at the monument for the disappeared to commemorate the day. This monument was erected in 2000. In a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) draws your attention to the appeal made in 2007 into the case of Rizana Nafeek, who went to Saudi Arabia as a maid when she was 17 years old and ...

(Hong Kong, October 26, 2010) The death sentence of Rizana Nafeek has been confirmed and her case is now before an advisor to his Royal Highness the King who has the power to pardon her. There is good...

Nothing can be worse for a country in the modern world than to have a bad constitution. Anybody with common sense would not find it difficult to understand that proposition. The constitution lays down...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 AHRC-OLT-011-2010 An Open Letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse President Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka C/- Office of the Pres...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the People of Narmada Valley and the National Alliance of People’s Movement, to the...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samthi and the Environment Support Group. Asian Human Right...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Professor Angana Chatterji on Kashmir. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Professo...

Extrajudicial killings and custodial deaths are happening because of: Refusal of the police and judiciary to investigate; The absence of investigations is the result of breakdown of the rule of law; W...

When extraordinary explanations justify extrajudicial killings   By Sofie Rordam Arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings are an almost daily occurrence in Sri Lanka today. The police system ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from www.asianews.it/news-en, written by Jibran Khan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article fro...