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Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following announcement for the release of Vol. 10/II of the Indonesian publication CAVEAT produced by the Community Legal Aid Institute (LBHM) in Jakarta in...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two magistrate courts in Sri Lanka have failed to uphold the labour rights of workers over the course of decades. Although com...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the case of a teenage boy who was abducted by three unknown men and killed later. His corpse was identified...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the enforced disappearance of two nationalist party leaders in October 2009. Although the men were seen bein...

Dear friends, Even as the military regime in Burma is preparing for a general election, it is continuing to torture and imprison perceived opponents with impunity. In this appeal the Asian Human Right...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 21-year-old man has been badly tortured by police and is facing two fabricated charges for theft and sexual assault due to a...

Basil Fernando No citizen has a special privilege where committing crimes is concerned. Whether the crime is that of murder or rape, income tax fraud or the non-disclosure of information relating to i...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a man who went missing nine months ago near Karachi has resurfaced this month in the custody of the Frontier Corp (FC). The ma...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the arrest and torture of a young man by police in Matara to force a confession of robbery. The victim was held ...

Dear friends,  In 2009 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) brought to your attention the case of U Kyaw Min and his family, who were given long jail sentences for supposedly giving false informa...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that the four remaining workers being held on false charges for almost two years in Rizal have now been released on ba...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to first of all express our deep condolence to the family members whose children have been abused recently in South Korea. The AHRC has no doubt tha...

Women News Network March 21, 2010 Correspondent, Shuriah Niazi — Women News Network — WNN Chhattisgarh, India: Mita Bai, 34, will never forget the morning of May 6, 2005. It was 8 a.m. i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of another case of a human rights lawyer in Burma whose licence to practice was revoked after being released from prison. The lawyer,...

(March 24, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) Among the stories that were reported from Sri Lanka in recent days the case of three-year-old Amila, is perhaps one of the most significant. Except for immedi...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch regarding the trial against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for “consensual homosexual condu...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to share its concern regarding the killing of two women and a 12-year-old child by army personnel under unclear circumstances in Bardyia...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the case of Orsonjit, aged 19 years, who was illegally arrested and reportedly murdered by the Manipur Police...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a group of Motijheel police in Dhaka illegally arrested and badly beat a man in custody in retaliation for him not ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that police officials from two different police stations tortured a young man to gain bribe money. He was tortured with screw...