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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a woman was arrested, assaulted and intimidated by the Lalbag police after they illegally raider her house. The police arr...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: Bangladesh should criminalize torture and appoint independent investigation bodies to conduct prompt inquiries into torture, extra-judicial killings and other serious violations o...
International Human Rights Day on December 10 should be a moment in Asia to reflect soberly as to why on this continent, where more than half of the world’s population live, basic human rights a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was arbitrarily arrested and detained then tortured and subsequently killed by the police attached to the Mohammadpu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the police shooting upon a crowd, which led to the death of five persons and injuries t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the o...
The AHRC is holding its advanced human rights study programme from October 9-14, 2005 in Hong Kong, at which participants from 10 nationalities will participate. To mark this occasion, the AHRC is lau...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the brutal torture of Azizur Rahman Shohel and his younger brother Atiquer Rahman Jewel by the Boalia police in Rajsahi Dist...
[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the severe torture of a man by members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Jasimuddin road, Uttara sector- 7, Dhaka and RAB...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the increasingly common practice of extra-judicial killings by law enforcement agencies ...
Protests against the use of torture by law enforcement agencies are becoming more widespread in countries throughout Asia. These are emanating from a growing popular sentiment against torture as an ab...
From May 12 to 14, 2005 the Asian Human Rights Commission held a consultation in Hong Kong with a group of forensic and legal professionals to discuss the interplay between forensic science and human ...
There are two expressions the use of which brings about abject fear among all sectors of society in Bangladesh. These terms are, cross-fire and Rapid Action Battalion. While the government...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the attack on an Awami League rally that killed Bangladesh’s former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, his nephew Shah Manju...
There are heartening stories coming from Thailand regarding the importance communities and the government are attaching to the problems of children and their need to return to school. In many places...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the grief of those faced with one of the worst natural catastrophes of recent times by way of the tsunamis that devastated several countries such as Ind...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the gang rape of a woman by police personnel in Chuadanga, Bangladesh. On the night of 18 December 2004, 14 policemen fro...
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