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Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda shortly after he wrote articles supporting the president...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 28 tribal children have recently been allowed to die of malnutrition. According to a field report by Madhya ...

Sri Lanka Human Rights Watch Deconstitutionalising, deinstitutionalising and the denial of legal remedies as a modern technique of terror (February 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The deprivation of ...

The year 2009 was one of the worst for Ahmadis (a religious minority community) in Pakistan. Eleven Ahmadis were murdered for their faith. Since the promulgation of the anti-Ahmadiyya law in 1984, the...

Subject: [SL HR Advocacy] HRW: End Indefinite To: slhradvocacy@googlegroups.com For Immediate Release Incommunicado ‘Rehabilitation’ Raises Fears of Torture and Enforced Disappearances (Ne...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the health and security of a journalist who was extensively tortured by the Kotowali police in Rangpur, and is now in hiding. ...

The failure to appoint the Election Commission as required by the 17th Amendment makes a mockery of any attempt to hold elections in Sri Lanka. The manner in which the election for the executive presi...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FST-008-20...

Sri Lanka Human Rights Watch (January 30, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Pregeeth Ekenaliyagoda, a senior journalist, political analyst and visual designer, attached to Lanka E-News, was abducted on the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an 8-year-old Dalit girl has been assassinated, in what could be a sacrifice for good omen on December 4, 2009 in M...

On the 26th January the election for the position of Executive President was held in Sri Lanka and the election commissioner declared the incumbent president, Mahinda Rajapakse, as the winner. The com...

After the presidential election of the 16th January there are continuous reports on several matters that raise concern about the security of persons from attacks and incidents of violence. The Asian H...

Menghaobi, alias Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila, more known as Manipur’s beacon of peace and hope, received the Lifetime Achievement Award on 26 January. Sharmila shares the award with Mr. Tenzing Tsud...

The AHRC has received photographs from Mr. Javed Kapoor showing the extent of the gender-based violence in Pakistan and the concrete consequences of the misogynist mindset which is spreading within th...

“My brother was picked up by the state intelligence agencies when he was returning home from office,¡¨ recalled Hani Baloch, the sister of a missing Baloch person, as she broke into tears whil...

Lawyers have stormed the Lahore Session Courts to show their solidarity with a lawyer and former president of Lahore high court bar association who was arrested in the murder case of a 12-year-old Chr...

The common candidate for several opposition parties, retired general Sarath Fonseka, has made an appeal to the President of Sri Lanka to ensure security for him through the Inspector General of Police...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières From: RSF ASIA <asie@rsf.org> Date: 2010/1/25 25 January 2010 In English: http://www.rsf.org/Political-reporter-and-cartoonist.html En franÃ...

GENEVA/ SINGAPORE (January 27, 2010) – In support of efforts to curb legal abuse across Asia, International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) this week launches its second JusticeMakers Fellowship Compet...

The conduct of Justice P.G. Agarwal Commission of Inquiry so far appears to be a threat to media freedom in India. The single-member Commission, appointed on August 27 is the state government’s ...