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INDIA: Country’s democracy stripped naked by Delhi police 

Avinash Pandey Samar* On 23 May 2010, police officers, including a woman police constable reportedly tortured and abused a mother and her 12-year-old son in Rajouri Garden Police Outpost in Delhi. It ...

SOUTH KOREA / INDIA: POSCO should take responsibility for the violent and bloody suppression of villagers protesting their steel plant project in Orissa, India 

On May 15, 2010, all but 2 out of one hundred villagers were seriously injured while police were dispersing them. They had been peacefully protesting against the POSCO steel plant project in Orissa, I...

PAKISTAN: The Christian community in Punjab is under threat from extremist groups again; two brothers are illegally charged with blasphemy

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two Christian men are in imminent danger after they were arrested, without a legitimate investigation, for blasphemy. The poli...

ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture – Interview 6 

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka — A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture B. ...

ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture — Interview 7 

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka — A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Tha...

INDIA: Country celebrates the 61st day of successful oppression in Manipur 

Today, the Union Home Ministry, the Chief Ministers of Manipur and Nagaland and a handful of Naga and Meitei nationalists are celebrating the 61st day of their successful enforcement of an indefinite ...

SRI LANKA: A man is badly beaten by Kolonna police officers but denied a judicial remedy

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a detailed report from a victim of torture on a string of violent violations committed by Kolonna police, both in the police station...

SRI LANKA: Panadura North Police mislead the judiciary and detain a man for forty days

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an arbitrary arrest, faulty police procedure and fabricated charges by the Panadura North police. The case highlig...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Police intimidate the victim’s father by offering money to settle, out of court, the murder charge against their colleagues

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously informed you that the Chatkhil police, of Noakhali district had tortured a man to death on 13 May 2010 (For further details, please ...

INDIA: The Central Reserve Police Force open fire indiscriminately in a market place in Assam, killing one

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 23 May 2010, a team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel opened fire indiscriminately and without ...

SRI LANKA: Freedom to rape at Kalutara–breakdown of security in the Sinhala Buddhist heartland 

Kalutara is situated around 35 kilometers from Colombo and is one of the centres of the Sinhala Buddhist heartland. What happened to a mother and her 17-year-old daughter in this place where the ̵...

PAKISTAN: Half of the population is exposed to food insecurity because of bad governance and abuses. 

Julia Lemétayer The Pakistani people are increasingly vulnerable to food insecurity because of the government’s bad governance and its lack of political will to tackle hunger. According to the Glob...

ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture — Interview 3 

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka — A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Ino...

ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture — Interview 2 

Sri Lanka — A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture   Sandamani Munasinghe, a Sri Lankan Attorney-at-Law, has worked as an advisor to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (H...

INDIA: Bhopal judgment symbolises decayed justice in a deficient democracy 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-096-2010 June 8, 2010 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Bhopal judgment symbolises decayed justice in a deficient democracy The recent judgment del...

PAKISTAN: AHRC welcomes the country’s ratification of the ICCPR and the CAT Convention and call for speedy implementation 

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Pu...

ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture — Interview 1 

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka — A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Har...

SRI LANKA: Caste origins of Sri Lankan Authoritarianism- Part 6 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Sri Lanka Guardian forwarde...

SRI LANKA: AG’s ‘Chandi’ attack on UN Rapporteur Philip Alston 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Sri Lanka Guardian forwarde...

INDIA: Army raids a village, assault and molests women in Assam

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the soldiers from a field regiment stationed in Manipur Block, Hailakandi district, Assam illegally raided houses...