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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2...

Why is it that judges in Pakistan seem completely unable to apply the fundamental legal principle of habeas corpus and order police or military officers to produce detained or arrested persons in cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged brutal attack on a couple by persons who a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding abductions of three men who have been missing after allegedly being arrested by state secret agents in Sindh p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged deaths during a protest in Nandigram, East Midn...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist was allegedly tortured and fabricated charges were laid against him by the Kalpitiya police in Sri Lan...

On January 16 the government gazette of Bangladesh announced that the interim president, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, signed into law the separation of the country’s subordinate judiciary from the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Surendra Thapa was severely beaten up by senior police officers of the District Police Office (DPO), Surkhet di...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that we have received a letter from Mr. T.A. Mahanama Tilakaratne, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Disappearances in response to our...

As protests by farming communities fearing displacement from their land as a result of a new industrial project continue to lead to violence in West Bengal (Eastern India), Amnesty International is co...

At 11:15pm on January 11 the president of Bangladesh, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, publicly announced a state of emergency and ordered a curfew in response to increasingly violent conflict paralysing the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal that a family of Bangladeshi origin were brutally assaulted and...

(Hong Kong, January 11, 2007) A new order by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh that the country’s judges be set free from government control has been cautiously welcomed by the Asian Human Rights ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 in Jessore district...

The judiciary of Pakistan has abdicated their duty to protect the citizens of the country by their blatant and open failure to handle cases of disappearances thereby providing the secret agencies of t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Abujam Shidam, a college teacher in Mapipur who was arrested on fabricated charges and torture...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received the information that a 17-year-old Hindu girl, Deepa has been missing since she was abducted by her Muslim tuition teacher on 31 Decembe...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the violent and arbitrarily arrest of a man being investigated by officers from the Excise Department on sus...

We reproduce below the email reply from Ms. Dilruskshi Handunnetti, the Sunday leader journalist who made several allegations against the AHRC in her article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTER...