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The immense killing and insecurity tearing Nepal apart are no longer a secret. War-torn Nepalese are fleeing daily to save themselves from atrocities committed by the state security forces and Maoist ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another illegal arrest and forced disappearance of a young man named Mr Naniram Kafle (23) by around 50 personnel of the J...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that Mr Biswanath Modal, a 45-year-old farmer, died after bein...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has previously reported on the forced eviction of thousands of people from their rightful homes in Bellilious Park, Kolkota, India since July 2003. As o...

On the 21 November 2004, Gerald Mervin Perera, victim of a well-known torture case was shot as he was travelling to work in a bus in the early hours of the morning.  In his pocket was the summons iss...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization in West Bengal, that 11 police officers, ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Sanjay Somnath Gaikwad, a driver in Rahata town, Maharashtra, was mercilessly beaten by police personnel at 10:30...

Around two hundred Nepalese are now have been witnessed to be crossing the border into India every hour, escaping the atrocities of both government and Maoist troops. Clearly, the violence in Nepal is...

It emerged over the weekend that there had been some kind of deal to keep a former Sri Lankan government minister out of jail on contempt of court charges, but it fell through. Reaction to the jailing...

[RE: UP-77-2004: SRI LANKA: More death threats to a torture victim and a human rights defender; Witness protection is urgently needed, UP-76-2004: SRI LANKA: Gerald Perera died after gunshot; His fa...

As we commemorate International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2004, the state of human rights in most countries of Asia is very bleak. Without serious efforts to defend these principles, life in a ...

It has now been eighteen days since the shooting of Gerald Perera in broad daylight, while he was travelling to work on a bus. Gerald died three days later, on November 24th, from the injuries that he...

There is much evidence that shows that in Sri Lanka, which already suffers from the endemic use of torture, the authorities are failing to take steps to eliminate this abhorrent practice, in line with...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another two cases of released detainees having been re-arrested in spite of court orders, which took place in Banke District. The wh...

The assassination of the High Court Judge Sarath Ambepitiya took place on the 19th of November. To date, no one has owned up to the responsibility for the failure to provide security to the Judge, who...

Several newspapers reported on 29 November 2004 that the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has taken a stand to instruct lawyers not to appear for those persons accused of the murder of a Colombo High Cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by a strong attempt to increase torture in Sri Lanka. Gerald Perera’s case is one example. Torture victim Gerald Perer...

In romantic notions where they world is divided between good guys and bad guys, the underworld is responsible for crimes, and the police are responsible for fighting back. A black world of criminals i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that Mr Abhijnan Basu, a prisoner at Presidency Jail Kolkata, ha...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another case of death threats on a torture victim and a human rights defender, following the death of Mr. Gerald Perera, ...