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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Samitha Lakmal (18), of No: 65/11, Deewaragama, Kantale in the Trincomalee Distr...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the recent spate of attacks on the Hazara community in Balochistan province. In the most recent incident, four family members belonging to th...

DIG Lalith A Jayasinghe was arrested and is now being remanded for harbouring an offender and aiding the escape of the chief suspect Swiss Kumar, for the gang rape and the murder of 18 year old Sivalo...

A Statement from ODHIKAR on the detention of Detention of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan at KLIA, Malaysia forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission At approximately 11:00 pm (Bangladesh time), on 19 Jul...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning Mrs. P K Deepika Priyangika (26), of Matele District. She was a victim of maternal death due to the gross med...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the gang rape of a young woman. The rape was recorded and she was blackmailed into marriage. The perpet...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a girl (11) of Yaku Arun village development committee (VDC) 5 in Bhojpur District was raped in December 2016. Whil...

An interview with J.C. Weliamuna, President’s Counsel, Eisenhower Fellow, former Member of the Transparency International Global Board, and Constitutional Law practitioner in Supreme Court for over ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Yogarasa Dinesh (24) of Nelliady, Point Pedro in Jaffna District. Two police officers attached to the Point Pedro...

India’s apex court passed a historic judgment on July14, reiterating the primacy of rule of law and that there can be no justification to bypass it. In the case of Extrajudicial Execution Victim Fam...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Kariyawasam Wickramarachchilage Milan Saman Wickramasinghe (21) permanent resident of Kantale Police Divis...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the abduction of a minor from the Bhutto family home. Previously, two brothers from this family were a...

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances and Odhikar, on the Day of International Criminal Justice Hong Kong/Dhaka/Manila; 17 Jul...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats aimed at the human rights activist, Mr. Sudesh Nandimal Silva who is fighting for the rights o...

Dear Friends, Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats received by the Chariman of the Committee for the Protection of Rights of Prisoners – Mr. Se...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from its partner organization in Kerala, Nervazhi, regarding the torture and violence meted out to a poor lotter...

Avinash Pandey Looking at the pattern of tomato pricing in India, year after year, could lead one to believe that tomatoes are pricing themselves, evilly conspiring against the farmers producing them ...

On 12 June 2017, Pakistan’s print and electronic media was abuzz with the murder of a teenager serving a politically influential family in Lahore. Master Akther was reportedly tortured to death by h...

By Basil Fernando “A large crowd of people gather here every day,” a social worker told me, pointing to a two-storey building that is now a toddy shop. There was a banner with a familiar advertise...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), received information regarding the death of a patient at the Kuliyapitiya District Base Hospital. Mrs. Uragoda Appuhamilage Somawathi told the d...