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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peace Worldwide, a human rights organization in Islamabad, Pakistan regarding an extrajudicial killing of a you...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Forum for Indigenous Perspectives and Action in Manipur, India regarding human rights violations committed by t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella polic...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, who was severely beaten by policemen who arrested him at a par...
SRI LANKA: Brutal torture; arbitrary arrest and detention; fabricated charges; threat and intimidation ——————————————...
SRI LANKA: Police misconduct; custodial torture; threat and intimidation, government inaction ———————————————&...
The Asian Human Rights Commissions (AHRC) inquiries reveal that no progress has thus far been made by officials investigating the attempted arson of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka he...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of our serious concern in relation to a Sri Lankan lawyer who has appeared for the complainants in many well-known human rig...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that five persons were b...
[RE: UP-32-2005: SRI LANKA: Please write a letter to the Attorney General to speed up Gerald Perera’s murder trial; UP-23-2005: Gerald Perera’s murder trial may not begin for another 5-7 y...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that a man, Tarun Hati, ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of a 16-year-old girl following a Jirga calling for her death for having dishonoured her tribe. M...
A Sri Lankan lawyer who has appeared for the complainants in many well-known human rights cases is facing grave threats to his security. Rasika Sanjeewa Weerawickrama has been receiving telephone call...
SRI LANKA: Arson attack against Human Rights Commission headquarters; resistance against those fighting for victims of police crime; threat and intimidation ——————&...
SRI LANKA: Assault; threat and intimidation; right to education; inaction by the police and education authorities ————————————&#...
INDIA: Gang rape; attempted murder; murder; Border Security Forces; police inaction; legal representation; failure of the courts; rule of law; womens rights; child rights ————...
The AHRC is holding its advanced human rights study programme from October 9-14, 2005 in Hong Kong, at which participants from 10 nationalities will participate. To mark this occasion, the AHRC is lau...
Dear friends, The Asian Human +Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 16-year-old boy was assaulted by a school teacher at the Pannampitiya Secondary School in Lenadora, Dumbulla Dis...
In reference to the interdiction of 106 policemen who have been charged for serious criminal offenses before Sri Lanka’s high courts, a daily newspaper Divayina reported the country’s Insp...
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