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Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo. “...

Investigate Killing of Prominent Journalist (New York, January 8, 2009) – The killing of a prominent newspaper editor today and the bombing of a private television station on January 6, 2009, highlig...

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a political party that has contested elections harnessing the Dalit votes. The BSP’s woman leader, Ms. Mayawati, a dalit herself, has been claiming that her part...

Hong Kong, January 9, 2009 A series of five YouTube presentations in the Sinhala language is now available on the issue of the executive presidency – the collapse of . Mr. Basil Fernando the director...

The enquiry into the murder of four traders at Khalid Bin Waleed road, PECHS of Karachi-Sindh province has revealed ‘criminal negligence’ on the part of the police officers. The murder hap...

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned today’s pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pann...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the new state government of Jammu and Kashmir setup under the leadership of the Chief Minister Mr. Omar Abdullah. By their overwhelming participa...

The massive attack on the Sirasa TV station brings gloomy predictions of things to come in the very near future to a country which is already bedeviled by lawlessness, violence and corruption. The lea...

The internal security of a country is not an abstract concept. It involves wide-ranging issues, including but not limited to, domestic security and civil defense, societal security and safety, and eme...

Early this morning (January 6, 2009), a group of armed men forcibly entered, attacked and caused serious damage to the MBC-MTV Transmission Station at Pannipitiya. This TV station is popularly known a...

The defeat of terrorism calls for the shift of attention in resolving lawlessness, corruption and the loss of authority of the public institutions of democracy.  The government’s declaration th...

The Government of India has released 67 prisoners of Pakistan nationality from different jails in the country. These prisoners were reportedly detained in Indian prisons for charges ranging from tampe...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organisation based in Manipur state that a violent incident involving local drug smugglers and und...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-328-2008  December 30, 2008  A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: New government must fulfill people’s expectations After the two-year-...

On December 23, the President of Pakistan appointed Mr. Sana Ullah Abbasi, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Operations) Hyderabad range as the inquiry officer in the case of Ms. Taslim Solangi, a 1...

Hong Kong, December 30, 2008  The AHRC wrote today to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, calling for diplomatic engagement with all the members of the United Nations and th...

The Sri Lankan government’s Ministry of Defence website published the following caption with a photograph of a President’s Counsel, Romesh de Silva PC. President’s Counsel Romesh de ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from ActionAid Pakistan and Bhandar Hari Sangat. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from ...

The constitutional petition no. D-2417/2008, regarding illegal taking of hostages – eight women and four children – by the police of four districts of Sindh province, was heard by the sing...