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Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian, a news portal in Sri Lanka. The article is part three of a series of articles from the column, Freedom of Thoug...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that 125 Dalit families have been forced to leave their village after they voted in the lower house parliament election. Earlier in t...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the botched arrest and shooting of two men by Urubokka police officers, who then fabricated their charges. T...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian, a news portal in Sri Lanka. The article is the compilation of two separate articles from the column, Freedom of...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police officers have arrested the driver of a three-wheel taxi in Wattala and tortured him severely to force a confession. Dur...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-164-2009 August 04, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Bangladesh should be careful about the Judiciary’s independence The Governmen...

Date: 2009/8/4 For Immediate Release Sri Lanka: Adopt International Third Anniversary of ACF Murders Marked by Government Inaction, Intimidation (New York, August 3, 2009) – The Sri Lankan government...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that a peasant activist, who lives in Sindh Province, has received no protection or help from police despite being subjected to tortur...

Korean On 31 July 2009, fourteen judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, led by Chief Justice Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, added a golden page to the global history of the judiciary by protecting ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh, regarding the alleged kidnapping and physical hara...

In the Pakistani part of Kashmir several political activists and students have been arrested for observing the demands for an independent Kashmir, free from India and Pakistan. Mr. Sardar Liaquat Haya...

The article: My visit to Kashmir by Mumtaz Khan I have returned to Kashmir after one year. During this period many political developments and changes have taken place which was seen with cynicism and ...

The case of Rizana Nafeek, the underaged Sri Lankan housemaid who was found guilty of the death of a Saudi infant in May 2005, has taken a new turn. The court in Dawadmi where Nafeek was initially tri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a father of three was arbitrarily picked up and tortured by police, first in a wood then at a police station, to fo...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a young Christian grocer has been wrongly arrested under the blasphemy law after another shopkeeper advised him to burn ...

Pakistan’s former military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf (Retd.) has refused to appear before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Supreme Court issued notice on him to appear before the court in the...

Related Materials: Sri Lanka: End Illegal Detention of Displaced Population Keeping several hundred thousand civilians who had been caught in the middle of a war penned in these camps is outrageous. H...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man is facing fabricated charges in Kandy Magistrate’s Court. The cases against him are patently fl...

Four pairs of eyes belonging to four siblings, the eldest of whom was fifteen, were fixed upon a scene happening on the morning of the 22nd of July at Beligahahandiya in Galle. What they saw in that m...

After Pakistan’s accusation of Indian involvement in subversive activities with the nationalist movement in Balochistan province, the law enforcement agencies reacted heavily against the students of ...