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Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a trade union leader and his brother have been gunned downed by unidentified men during strike negotiations. Mr. Mustansar Ran...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reports that police officers at Rajangana police station are using torture; four incidents have taken place at the police station ...

(Hong Kong, July 8, 2010) The decision of an independent online news site to shut down its web board is indicative of the shut down of free speech in Thailand under the ongoing state of emergency, the...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a recent attack on a magazine office in Jakarta. Three Molotov Cocktail bombs were thrown at the office of Tempo...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka–A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Saran...

Rana Maqbool Ahmed is a former Inspector General of Police of Sindh province and has been accused of the torture of and conspiracy to kill President Zadari when he was imprisoned in 1999. Rana has bee...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the engagement of Khulna Detective Branch officers in extreme and open extortion. The officers arbitrar...

Dear friends,  The authorities in Thailand continue to detain persons without charge under emergency regulations imposed in response to anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok during April and May....

In an announcement dated 29 June 2010 posted on its website, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand responding to an open letter of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on the reported shacklin...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-140-2010 July 5, 2010 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Indian worker killed by A CID Chief Inspector for refusing to work 16 hours a day The...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka–A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Chath...

More than 50 elderly tenants have struggled to protect their right to livelihood since being evicted on April 30, 2010. All of them were tenants of the Gocheck traditional business market and are curr...

The government of Thailand claims to be complying with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in its application of the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situati...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Emergency Committee of “Gocheok” Market Tenants. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statem...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Centre for Criminal Justice Research, India. It is the notes and comments prepared by Dr. P. J. Alexander, former Inspector General...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Union for Thai Democracy to the United Nations. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Ko...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka – A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Thi...

A news report published on June 11th from Colombo stated, “Members of the vanquished Tamil Tiger terrorist organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are posing as beggars in the citi...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received a report of the atrocious torture of a soldier by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on the false charges of working for the Research and An...