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Dear friends, It is with much regret that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continued torture and assault of journalists and media personnel in Pakistan, with a repo...

[Re: UP-80-2005: SRI LANKA:  Further death threats to torture victim J.V. Saman Priyankara from Matale ; UP-74-2005: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Priyankara received death threats again and urgent witne...

Although Pakistan is now an elected member of the new UN Human Rights Council, the practice of torture throughout the country is on the rise. Since its election on May 9, 2006 gross human rights viola...

The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is a sad reminder of Sri Lanka’s complete failure to eliminate torture.  This is even sadder because it was the past practices of horrendo...

On the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the new opportunities for human rights as a whole, and tortu...

Of the 511 Sections in the Indian Penal Code, there is not a single provision to punish a law enforcing officer for engaging in custodial torture.  One hundred and forty six years since the original ...

On May 9th, 2006, Bangladesh was elected to the new United Nations Human Rights Council, which is currently holding its first session in Geneva. As part of the voluntary pledge the government made pri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the stabbing death of an under-trial prisoner in Muzzafar Garh, Pakistan. The prisoner, in police custody at the time of his death...

Dear friends, It is with much regret that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the death of Pakistan journalist, Mr. Hayat Ullah Khan. In a May 2006 appeal (UA-145-2006) th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement by which appeared in Nepalnews on June 16, 2006 Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —&...

This paper has been prepared in question and answer form to discuss how the status and the value of courts has diminished since the 1978 Constitution which is an authoritarian Constitution. The presen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Sajedur Rahman Sarkar Sajid, who was entrapped by the police and intelligence agents on the instruction of ruling poli...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a threat made against the tenant of the late Gerald Perara. Owing to the seriousness of the threat and given the person who ...

June 16, 2006 Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe Minister for  Parliamentary Complex Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Dear Mr. Minister, Having seen the report in the Daily Mirror of June 12, 2006 by Uditha Jayasinghe on ...

A landmine attack on a bus on June 15 at Kebethigollewa on a remote road near rebel-held territory killed at least 64 persons and wounded many more.  Immediately thereafter there were several air str...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to express our deep concern with regard to ongoing grave human rights violations being perpetrated by armed vigilante groups in Nepal....

We reproduce a call from University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Sri Lanka, UTHR(J) Information Bulletin No. 40, Date of Release: 15th June 2006, Flight, Displacement and . The full report is av...

Open letter from the AHRC to the Prime Minister of Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Prime Minister’s office Singha Durbar Kathmandu NEPAL Fax. + 977 142 27286 Dear Prime Minister Koira...

The urgent appeals programme has experienced considerable growth over the last years. To ensure that individual support by UA programme subscribers will continue despite the increased issuing of urgen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the illegal arrest, detention a...