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Dear friends,  Mr. Udaya Pushparaja Antony Nithyaraja (31) of Jaffna District was illegally arrested and severely tortured by seven police officers in front of the Magistrate of Jaffna while the cour...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details about the torture of two men in separate incidents in Basilan, Mindanao. The group of soldiers who tortured one of them ha...

According to the received information, China has executed a Pakistani citizen, Mr. Zahid Hussain Shah, yesterday, September 21, 2011 in Shanghai, China, on drug smuggling charges despite the last-ditc...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the death in custody of a sixteen-year old teenage boy, one year ago in Rupandehi District. The boy ...

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to Ban Ki-Moon, General Secretary of the United Nations The Honorable Ban Ki-Moon Secretary General 760 United Nations Plaza United Nations New Yo...

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the President of the United States of America President Barack Obama President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvani...

Members of one of the largest sects of Islam, the Shiaite community, came under attack from militant Islamic organizations which, in the past had the patronage of Pakistan army and its intelligence ag...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Sindh Peoples Commission on Disaster Prevention and Management (SPCDPM). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong A Statement from S...

(Hong Kong, September 21, 2011)  This book can now be obtained as a Kindle eBook which is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Gyges-Ring-Constitution-Lanka-ebook/dp/B005OC2U0C/  The print version c...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Sanchiarachchige Thushara of Keselwatte, Pitakotuwa in the Colombo District was extrajudicially killed by pol...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Melanie Cordon, a domestic worker convicted in absentia, has been neglected by the government agencies that have ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission urges the world community and the international donors to help the more than eight million flood affected people from Sindh province who are under severe threat from ...

[RE: AHRC-HAC-003-2011: NEPAL: Incomplete land distribution process causes serious food insecurity to the Gandharva Dalit community currently facing crop destruction and abuse by another community] De...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Garusinhage Priyantha (45) of Nelu-Yaya Kithulkote at Thanamalvila in Monaragala District was extrajudicially...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that VFM, one of the Sri Lanka’s leading national electronic media institutions networks, journalist Mr. Ruwan S...

JC Weliamuna, LLM (Colombo) Human Rights & Constitutional Lawyer, Eisenhower Fellow, Senior Ashoka Fellow Much has been said about the recent decision of the Government to end the Emergency in Sri...

There are only two days remaining before the execution of Zahid Hussain Shah, a Pakistani, who was sentenced to death on charges of drug smuggling in the People’s Republic of China. He will be e...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from India, written by Mr Vidhya Bhushan Rawat. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Mr V...

(Hong Kong, September 19, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission announces the publication of a new book, Gyges’ Ring — The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka by Basil Fernando. This book is ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Kirigalbadage Chaminda Sanath Kumara (38) of No: 171/1, Bodiya Road, Walapola, Papiliwala in the district of ...