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Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Justice for Peace Foundation, Thailand, concerning a criminal case that police have brought against a victim of alleged torture...

The Asian Human Rights Commission earnestly requests the kind intervention of all persons of the Muslim faith to kindly intervene to save the life of an innocent Sri Lankan girl who went to Saudi Arab...

When a country’s protection mechanism is no longer capable of protecting its own people, its own system is deeply flawed; when a society can no longer protect the people in their community, the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Cambodia Center for Human Rights to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon....

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee and others. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————-...

(Hong Kong, October 27, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Wednesday launched a new campaign webpage on the case of Phyo Wai Aung, who is being unjustly tried over a bombing in Burma during Ap...

Hundreds of families of disappeared persons will gather at Raddoluwa Junction at Seeduwa, Sri Lanka at the monument for the disappeared to commemorate the day. This monument was erected in 2000. In a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) draws your attention to the appeal made in 2007 into the case of Rizana Nafeek, who went to Saudi Arabia as a maid when she was 17 years old and ...

(Hong Kong, October 26, 2010) The death sentence of Rizana Nafeek has been confirmed and her case is now before an advisor to his Royal Highness the King who has the power to pardon her. There is good...

Nothing can be worse for a country in the modern world than to have a bad constitution. Anybody with common sense would not find it difficult to understand that proposition. The constitution lays down...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 AHRC-OLT-011-2010 An Open Letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse President Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka C/- Office of the Pres...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from The State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC), the Thai Labour Solidarity...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the People of Narmada Valley and the National Alliance of People’s Movement, to the...

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 article from Professor Angana Chatterji on Kashmir. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Professo...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samthi and the Environment Support Group. Asian Human Right...

Extrajudicial killings and custodial deaths are happening because of: Refusal of the police and judiciary to investigate; The absence of investigations is the result of breakdown of the rule of law; W...

When extraordinary explanations justify extrajudicial killings   By Sofie Rordam Arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings are an almost daily occurrence in Sri Lanka today. The police system ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from www.asianews.it/news-en, written by Jibran Khan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article fro...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the Gosairhat Police of Shariatpur district, around 120 kilometers far from Dhaka, have brutally tortured a man to death. The re...