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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to share with you the constitutional petition filed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the Sup...

A legal professional is not above the law. A solicitor in Hong Kong was sentenced to imprisonment recently. It was alleged that the solicitorÂ’s client who had lodged a complaint about a stockbroker h...

Shocking details are emerging about the manner in which the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudry, was requested to resign from his post, and how when he refused he was physically restrained form leaving th...

The government has recently announced that police powers will be granted to the military by way of further emergency regulations. When the BBC Sinhala Service questioned the government spokesman, Mini...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the teacher who was charged with assaulting a student has yet to be suspended from his post. In addition, t...

In the midst of the judicial crisis the government has opened yet another front in the hopes of exercising damage control in an attack on a television station that has been airing open discussions on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source about the alleged torture of a man by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Kalutara divisi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13 year-old boy has been excessively assaulted by a school teacher in Gedakawela, Ratnapura on 2 March 2007. Desp...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the illegal three-day po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source of four cases relating to intimidation and assaults allegedly committed by the Maoists. Details of each ca...

Dear friends, The Asian Human rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged wrongful arrest and brutal torture of an innocent sales clerk named Md. Munsur Ali who was detaine...

The grave problems regarding the lack of credible investigations into human rights violations in Sri Lanka continues as the government makes threats to expel foreign diplomats who call for such inquir...

The Kathmandu Post Chronicling the truth http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=106686 By MANJUSHREE THAPA The essay form–now fancifully called literary nonfiction or creative nonfictionÂ...

The following press release was issued by the Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka on April 17, 2007 – http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/index.php?action=con_news_full&id=523&section=news (W...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 39 year-old bus driver was allegedly tortured by a traffic police officer near the Waikkala Railway Gate on 11 March 2007.  T...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that no criminal charges have not been filed against the police officers of the Moratuwa police station responsible ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the alleged unnecessary amputation of Ms. Citthi NaseeraÂ’s leg by a surgeon at the Negombo General Hospit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alerts (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, of Manipur state, Ind...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, brutal assault and fabrication of charges against three men from Panadura by the pol...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has warned that General Musharaff appears to be trying to ‘drive the country towards civil war just to perpetuate his rule.’ Referring to certain incidents o...