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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about a horrific case in which a 24-year-old young man, Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik, was severely assaulted on his penis while bein...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the livelihoods of about 500,000 fishermen will be directly and severely affected and approximately 100,000 persons will b...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three men were allegedly tortured by the Army deployed in Paikgachha, Khulna district, Bangladesh, after their arbitrary a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the second arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman and his relative Mr. Muzibur by the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault of three men after illegal arrest by Galgamuwa police on 25 November 2007 in Sri Lanka. Po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was informed by the Gram Swarajya Samithi, a local human rights organisation in Sonebhadra district, Uttar Pradesh state in India, that thousands...

AS-019-2007 January 26, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: A nation living in fear & hope Bangladesh is in a deep political and social crisis. Its president, Profess...

(Hong Kong, January 26, 2007) Five Indian men are facing charges of murder despite the “dead” man having appeared in court and told the judge that the case was fabricated, the Asian Human ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India fails to provide adequate remedy to Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi, who had...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to inform you new attacks on media workers and organizations in Pakistan. We were informed that the Pakistan government has stopped pu...

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) notes with dismay the media reports suggesting a move by the government to abolish the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Public Accounts Committee ...

Tomorrow, January 26 marks the 57th year of the Indian republic. The question that will be in the mind of many this Republic Day is what has become of the “tryst with destiny” spoken of by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Md. Aminul Islam Shahin was tortured by the police personnel from the Gournadi police station in the Barisal di...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that around three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested en masse by the Bangladesh law-enforcement in Dhaka on the eve of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The ar...

I refer to the complaint made by Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi [please refer to your case number 5840/24/97-98] of a well planned assassination attempt on his life. The attempt was on 18.02.1998. He has given ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was allegedly tortured to death in the custody of the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1 December 2007. After t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of human rights activists associated with Guria, that the case is dragging on in the court in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province,...