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UPDATE (Nepal): Democracy to return to Nepal 

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu; UP-079-2006: N...

SRI LANKA: Torture of a woman by the Baddegama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of Ms. M. K. Buddhika by the Baddegama police on 17 February 2006. Ms. Buddhika pleaded with the p...

INDIA: Irresponsible firing by Salar police kills a woman and injures a man in Simulia, Murshidabad district, West Bengal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), regarding the death of 25-year-old Ms. Tulsi Das, who was ...

SRI LANKA: Civil society in Sri Lanka must learn lessons from the people’s movement in Nepal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-080-2006  April 25, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Civil society in Sri Lanka must learn lessons from the people’s movement in ...

NEPAL: Rekindling the flame of democracy in Nepal

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) joins hands with the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Nepal who have successfully defeated a coup started on February 1, 2005 by the ...

INDIA: Mentally disabled boy lynched to death by a mob for stealing a biscuit in Bardaman District, West Bengal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), detailing the death of Subhankar Mondal, a mentally disabl...

UPDATE (Nepal): Call for intervention by the United Nations Secretary General and High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure the establishment of a constituent assembly and democratic government in Nepal 

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu; UP-079-2006: N...

NEPAL: International community’s response to King Gyanendra’s address criticised by detained Nepali activists 

Dear friends,   Please find a letter written to the international community by a group of Nepali activists being detained in Duwakot Armed Police barracks, criticising the response to King Gyanen...

SRI LANKA: The Constitutional Council must function — a meaningful interpretation needed 

The meaning of a Constitution is to be found, not in slavish adherence to the letter, which sometimes killeth, but in the discovery of its spirit, which giveth life…”[1] The general dismay voiced ov...

NEPAL: Continuing fight for democracy by the people of Nepal 

Yesterday, April 22, we witnessed a in Kathmandu how revolutionary fervour transforms the poor and oppressed people to a determined force for change. The poor of Nepal who for centuries have lived on ...

NEPAL: World must support people’s aspirations to oust coup leader and restore democracy

After years of unbearable horrors, the people of Nepal are once more in the streets as they were in 1990, demanding democracy and human rights. The recent offer by coup leader Gyanendra to allow for a...

SRI LANKA: 17th Amendment crisis — immediate appointment of the nine members of the Constitutional Council is the way out

The issues of the non appointment of the Constitutional Council (CC) members and the resultant collapse of all the relevant independent commissions remain unresolved despite unprecedented public prote...

NEPAL: Coup leader Gyanendra must be ousted and brought to justice by popular demand

Demonstrations totalling hundreds of thousands of Nepalese citizens have continued unabated since April 6th, 2006, defying curfews and shoot-to-kill orders given to the security forces. The movement t...

PAKISTAN: Fears for whereabouts of disappeared political leader in Pakistan 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the disappearance of Dr. Safdar Sarki, a nationalist and political leader in Pakistan. On 24 February 2006, Dr. Sarki was...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Government agrees to form judicial probe commission into the police brutality on journalists 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the police brutality on journalists at the Chittagong stadium on April 16. Following the incident, a d...

BANGLADESH: Journalists beaten by the police at the Chittagong stadium 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that at least 16 journalists were injured due to police brutality at the Bir Sreshtha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong o...

GENERAL APPEAL (Pakistan): Alarming situation of forced disappearance of political and human rights activists in Balochistan 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the continuous disappearances of political and human rights activists in Balochistan, the southern province in Pakistan. I...

NEPAL: Immediate solution to the growing crisis needed to avert catastrophe in Nepal

The human rights, humanitarian and political crisis in Nepal has hit a new low and demands an immediate solution. On the eve of the third week of widespread, legitimate popular protests against the di...

INDIA: Professor T. V. Eachara Varier, the symbol of perseverance and fearlessness passed away

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes with grief the death of Professor T. V. Eachara Varier who passed away on 13 April 2006. Professor Varier has left the legacy of a consistent fight of a ...

SRI LANKA: Child denied right to education despite being the victim of ill-treatment 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the denial of right to education to a five-year-old child by the authorities in Sri Lanka. The child, whose name we withhold, was ...