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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 16 year-old school child, Lahiru Madushan Suriarachchi of Horana Royal College was ill-treated by the principal o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that another 24 Ahmadiya Pakistani asylum seekers, who are applying for an asylum status in Thailand to escape from religious p...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been closely following the case of a young man whom the authorities in Burma have accused of involvement in a bombing during April. Phyo Wa...

One of the fishermen who returned after to Sri Lanka after being captured by Somali pirates described to the BBC Sinhala Service how the Sri Lankan government had done nothing to assist or save those ...

In an astounding ruling that underscores the extent to which the judiciary in Burma has abdicated its authority in favour of the security services, a Supreme Court justice has ruled that permission or...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —&...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from a Joint Working Group of the Right to Food Campaign and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Labour Party of Pakistan, written by Mr. Farooq Tariq. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the administrative authorities of Gazipur district cancelled permission for the holding of the 87th Annual Conventi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA) concerning the case of arrest and subsequent disappearance of yet another person in Manipu...

Myrna Reblando’s reaction demonstrates the absence of remedy within the system of justice not a mere ‘hysteria’.   Facts of the case & details of the video   As describ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 23-year-old physically and mentally disabled woman was raped by a neighbour. When the victim’s mother broug...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Kerala State Police has illegally arrested and tortured two persons on 11 February 2011 in Anthikadu Police Sta...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a couple is missing after their arrest by police officers from two stations on the instructions of a high ranking p...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained the details of the judgment in which two human rights defenders Mr. Park Lae-Gun and Mr. Lee Jong-Hoi were given a three-year and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender was abducted by the officials of the Frontier Cops (FC) while he was going to attend court ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. D G Suthisa Kumara Jayalath (25) and Mr. W V Mahendra Uppalawanna (18) of Pahalawela, Pareigama, Via Matugama w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a shop owner and his wife after they had refused to give bribes to the police in Kathmandu Vall...

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Asahi Kosei (M) Sdn. Bhd. Company Mr. Takeshi Nishitsuji — President Asahi Kosei (M) Sdn. Bhd. Lot 3377, Jalan Perusahaan Utama, Tama...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from WUNRN. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from WUNRN forwarded by the Asian Human Ri...