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SRI LANKA: Letter from Professor Craig Scott regarding unjustified listing on your site of Mr Basil Fernando 

An Open Letter from Prof. Craig Scott forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Date: 6 January 2011 08:23 Subject: Letter from Professor Craig Scott regarding unjustified listing on your ...

SRI LANKA: AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan intellectual to stop distribution of false and defamatory material and a death list 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2011 AHRC-OLT-001-2011   An Open Letter to Dr. Chandre Dharma-Wardana – the AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan intellectual to stop distribution of fals...

PAKISTAN: Appeasement policy towards religious intolerance leads to murder of a governor 

The nation has suffered a great loss due to this tragic murder. A voice of sanity has been silenced. This has happened at a time when the kind of political leadership provided by Salman Taseer is most...

SRI LANKA: Dr. Chandre Dharma-Wardana admits to the publication of false and defamatory material and a death list 

Yesterday we published an open letter relating to false and defamatory material which also amounted to the publication of a death list. Kindly see : SRI LANKA: AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan i...

INDIA: Manipur Police detain journalist to silence the media

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local human rights organization based in Manipur, the Human Rights Alert (HRA), concerning the case of a journali...

SRI LANKA: Police refuse to conduct investigation into malpractice during the Sri Lanka Law College exam and threaten the life of the complainant

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a law student Mr. Dasanayaka Mudiyanselage Thushara Jayarathna of No: 4/8, Edirisinghe road, Nugegoda, a final year...

PHILIPPINES: Ombudsman pledges to resolve Abadilla Five’s torture complaint in a week

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Merceditas Gutierrez, head of the Office of the Ombudsman, has pledged to resolve the complaint of torture of the Abadil...

BURMA: Human rights defender allegedly poisoned in cell

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned about threats to the security and worsening health in prison of Ma Sandar, a human rights defender who was imprisoned on fabricated ...

SRI LANKA: The re-immergence of fear psychosis the Jaffna District 

Dear friends,   We wish to share with you the following statement from Networking for Rights (NfR) Sri Lanka.   Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong   ————- ...

PAKISTAN: The year 2010 proves to be worst for media-19 media workers killed; 1500 retrenched 

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Ko...

INDIA: Journalist facing persecution for reporting about a mass grave in Gujarat

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning a concocted criminal case registered against a journalist in India, Mr. Rahul Singh, for reporting a mass gra...

SRI LANKA: New Year Wish List – 2011 

We hope that wishing for a happy new year in Sri Lanka is not just mere wishful thinking. We wish: 1. That Rizana Nafeek, facing a death sentence in Saudi Arabia, will be released as soon as possible....

SRI LANKA: A whistle-blower who exposed the leakage of a question paper at Sri Lanka Law College forced into hiding 

A law student at the Sri Lanka Law College learned that one of the question papers for the final exams had been leaked. He learned this when one of his fellow students came to another and explained th...

THAILAND: Chinese dissident journalist detained in Bangkok despite UNHCR protection 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Reporters Without Borders. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——&#...

THAILAND: NACC’s and DSI’s delay, failure and their favor given to officials allegedly involved with torture giving rise to the enforced disappearance of Lawyer Somchai 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Cross Culture Foundation (CrCF) in Thailand. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- Seven years ...

SRI LANKA: A Christmas appeal to President Rajapaksa to save Rizana Nafeek 

An Open Letter to the President of Sri Lanka on the fate of Rizana Nafeek     Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa   President Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colom...

ASIA: Christmas and New Year Wishes from the Asian Human Rights Commission

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. In all countries of Asia, this Christmas and new year will be celebrated in very difficult conditions. We exte...

INDIA: Burning of two Dalit girls is the lingering funeral pyre of the rule of law 

The ghoulish killings of two Dalit girls in Moradabad, an industrial town not far away from the national capital Delhi, is yet another reminder of almost everyday recurrence of attacks on Dalit commun...

PAKISTAN: Sharia Court Launches Major Challenge to Protection of Women Act 

On 22 December 2010, after three years and four petitions, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) of Pakistan declared several critical clauses of the Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act of 200...