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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Press Freedom Mission. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been collecting and documenting cases of illegal arrest and imprisonment of persons accused in relation to the September 2007 protests in B...

ICRC – International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/sri-lanka-update-150108?opendocument 15-01-2009 Ever more civilians have been leaving areas held by ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-018-2009  January 21, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Justice Mark Fernando – an appreciation Justice Mark Fernando, who becam...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot dead by police constables allegedly under the influence of liquor in Teminabuan, south Sorong Rege...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Press Institute. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —̵...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been collecting and documenting cases of illegal arrest and imprisonment of persons accused over the September 2007 protests in Burma. In t...

His Excellency Ban Ki Moon The secretary General, United Nations Your Excellency, The Agonising Cry , Sri-Lanka We the Roman Catholic Priests and Religious serving the people in Wanni, the theatre of ...

FCCT panel on 21 January 2008 10 am – 11:30 am While Thailand is steadily progressing economically and many more are enjoying growing prosperity, this progress does not extend to all regions and peop...

The assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga and his last powerful message has given rise to a discussion on the state of freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. A local group, Vikalpa, has published onlin...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a case where the military officials are continuing to ignore a court order. The decision made by the Federal...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its public support for a demonstration to be held in London on 15 January in protest at the killing of a prominent Sri Lankan editor. The demonstration will be t...

(Hong Kong, January 16, 2009) You may view this YouTube presentation at: Part 1: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=K86K94F5ywQ  Part 2: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=QRE5Og5_LiY  Part 3: http://hk.yo...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the death threats that one of the Abadilla Five detainees, whom we previously reported to have been sufferin...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information on the case of 13 people who have been imprisoned for supposedly having set up and participated in an illegal...

With grave concern I am writing to you for your immediate intervention following the fact that today at about 3.00 p.m. we were informed that more 5000 persons are going to be evicted from their lawfu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-016-2009  January 14, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: End the politically chosen ‘disposable’ attorney and prosecutorial...

Munir Mengal, the managing director of a Balochi language television channel, was arrested by the state intelligence agencies on 4 April, 2006, at the Karachi International Airport and held in a milit...

2009 will be the year of politics — electoral politics to be precise. Thus, when one attempts to speculate on the human rights situation next year, the result will probably take a very political...