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Several senior members of the opposition United National Party (UNP) have issued statements expressing concern over the resignation of two judges from the three member Judicial Service Commission and ...
[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding events that took place on the day of the municipal elections in Nepal on 8 February 2006. According to our sou...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 14-year-old Manoj Tillakaratne by his physical training teacher A.D.C Renuka on 31 Janua...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the arbitrary detention of prisoners in Krishnanagar jail. It is...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a fabricated case filed against Dattu Rupa Valvi (33), Vijay Rupa Valvi (45), Ganesh Rupa Valvi (36) and five ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you a letter sent by the AHRC to Mr. Chandra Fernando, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Sri Lanka. The letter detail...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fabricated case filed against Ramesh Narsibhai Vasava, an adivasi, after he was shot by a Forest Departme...
The Government of Bangladesh has conducted a political crackdown of massive proportions, arresting over 10000 persons between February 2nd and 5th, 2006. The police have randomly an arbitrarily arre...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was detained then tortured and subsequently killed by the prison staff and the inmates of Bogra District Jail. The i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the assault of female police constable, Sunethra Koswatte (WPC No 3134) by Inspector of Police, Kastur...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that adivasis (indigenous people) in the Dangs District in the Indian state of Gujarat are living in fear as a Hindu festival in th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our partner organisation from Manipur, India that the security forces deployed in Manipur are engaged in murder, ar...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have arrested at least 10,000 common citizens in the space of only three days beginning on 2 February 2006. The...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attempted assassination of a leader of the Nepali Congress and is concerned that this may be the beginni...
A serious controversy has resulted after two senior judges resigned from their positions in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), as they found that remaining in office would compromise their conscie...
The Asian Human Rights Commission has today learnt that two of the three members of the Judicial Service Commission of Sri Lanka have resigned their posts as continuing to hold them would be incompati...
[Re: HU-09-2005: UPDATE (India): Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims and continued starvation death in Murshidabad, West Bengal; HU-07-2005: Starvation...
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