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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest under fabricated charge of an uncle and grandfather of a 3-year-old child who was knocked...

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan made an order yesterday (May 7) suspending the judicial panel hearing into the accusation made by the military regime against the country’s suspended Chief Justice ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission sent an Urgent Appeal on February 26, 2007 (UA-063-2007) to several government authorities to which a reply was received on May 7, 2007 from you as the Additional Sec...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received update information regarding the alleged brutal assault of Mr. Dhanawardena by inmates and trainees of the police training college i...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about an alleged torture case by police officers of Wattegama Police Station. P.K.W. Wijesinghe was summoned to the polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged serious threats and intimidation against a human rights defender and journa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the cou...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a local human rights group ODHIKAR that their acting director, Mr. ASM Nasiruddin Elan, had been serious...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the horrible livin...

APRIL 27, 2007: (Update to LRWC statement of March 19, 2007) LRWC deplores President Musharraf’s March 9, 2007 suspension of Iftikar Mohamed Chaudhry from his office as Chief Justice of the Supr...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from NGO Advocacy Forum Nepal that the District Police Office (DPO) and the District Administration Office (DAO) in Bank...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged fabricated charges against Mr. J.D.Jayatilaka and his wife which were instigated in from 2001. Mrs. Ja...

The government of Punjab province, no doubt through the instructions of the government of the military regime of General Musharaff, is using some flimsy excuses to thwart the traveling arrangements of...

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an updated list of persons disappeared in Sri Lanka from the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC), a local human rights organization in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to inform you about an alleged false case against a 65-year-old woman in Wanathayilluwa, by officers from the Excise Department in Puttalam w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is repor...

In the latest move against the supporters of Chief Justice Iftehkar Chaudry a Supreme Court lawyer, Mr. Ali Ahmed Kurd has been detained by the Quetta police at the district court. The detention comes...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the uninterrupted campaign of the District Magistrate against the human rights organisations within hi...