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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its deep concern to the injured victims and the families of those who lost their lives in the bomb blasts in Mumbai, India on July 11, 2006. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that on 3 July 2006, a rickshaw driver named Inarul Islam Ena was arbitrarily arrested, forced to drive overnight, and sodomize...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner, The Advocacy Forum, of a case regarding the brutal torture of Mr. Teksu Rai by the officers from the Maha...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, detailing the killing of a 14-year-old boy by the Borde...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-164-2006 July 10, 2006  A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA – Torture, worse than absurd – (this is the beginning of a series of statements...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that M.S.F. Perera who was allegedly tortured by prison guards at Kuruwita Remand Prison has succumbed to his injuries at the Nationa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a new bill that was illegally passed by the government in Pakistan in order to drag the country’s workers into condi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2006 AHRC-OL-028-2006 An open letter to the Inter Ministerial Committee on Human Rights The Inter Ministerial Committee on Human Rights Thro- Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe Mi...

The Criminal Procedure Code of India has been amended to include a provision for plea bargaining with effect from 7 June 2006. The new chapter in the statute, Chapter XXI A, allows plea bargaining to ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a case of rape of a minor from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum based in Katmandu – Nepal. The incide...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a sixty-five year-old woman named Mrs. Nayan Banu was beaten to death by three police men from the Savar Police Sta...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an arbitrary arrest and degrading treatment of a woman by the Galle police on 31 May 2006. According to the in...

The HRCSL under the leadership of the earlier commissioners decided to send a legal representative from the HRCSL to attend the trials relating to the torture and murder of the victim, Gerald Perera w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a 24-year-old man named D Chamara Lanka by the Kurunegala police during his arbitrary dete...

I am sure you are aware of the murder trial of Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was assassinated while waiting to give evidence in a trial against several police officers from the Wattala Police St...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention to support a young man named Amitha Deepthi Kumara who is currently in illegal police custody and receives con...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman named Mrs. Rasheda Khatun, the Family Planning Inspector (FPI) of the health and family planning department...

Representatives from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana) and The Centre for Policy Alternatives (Dr. Devanesan Nesiah, Bhavani Fonseka and Mirak Raheem) traveled to Mannar, Pesalai and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one more journalist, Sampath Lakmal Silva was found shot and killed on the morning of 2July 2006.  Mr. Silva is be...

The bench of three judges of the Supreme Court made an order on June 30, 2006 directing the Attorney General to consider whether action is warranted against two citizens who filed a fundamental rights...