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The relatives of the April 28th, 2004 incident will submit a complaint letter to the president of the Lawyer’s Council of Thailand on Saturday 22nd, 2008 at CS Pattani Hotel. During the April 28...
J.S. Tissainayagam, senior journalist who is on trial before the High Court has been moved from the remand prison to the magazine prison in Colombo on November 18. No reasons have been given for this ...
BURMA: Transfers to remote jails are “death sentences”: AHRC (Hong Kong, November 19, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Wednesday condemned the sending of wrongly convicted...
Five United Nations experts* strongly condemned severe convictions and the unfair trials of prisoners of conscience in Myanmar. Following one year of arbitrary detention, dozens of individuals who had...
This week a website maintained by the Ministry of Defence published a report in which they referred to some lawyers as traitors as they appeared for alleged LTTE suspects by filing fundamental rights ...
A massive and unlawful crackdown by the Ministry of Justice and police force took place in the Seong-Sang Furniture Factory Complex in Masok (Namyangju City, Gyounggi-Do, Korea) on November 12th, beg...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares in the global outrage that has this week greeted the sentencing of dozens of persons to lengthy jail terms for their parts in the nationwide protests ag...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you of the killing of three persons, including two political activists, in separate incidents recently. The AHRC is gr...
Due to its maintenance of a conscription system, South Korea’s military has long been plagued with ill-treatment, resulting in trauma and even suicide for the individuals concerned. After severa...
This review is submitted to contribute to the Special Rapporteur on Tortures survey of the implementation of recommendations made after his . 1 This review focuses on progress made in Nepal durin...
In June 2006 a five member bench of Supreme Court judges ordered police in Kashmore, Sindh province to arrest a PPP leader and national assembly member, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, for involvement in San...
A special call to all human rights organisations and especially womens organisations to intervene in a scandalous incident where a 13-year-old girl has been subjected to sexual abuse and confinement...
Mr. D.W.C. Mohotti, an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, (Membership Number of the Bar Association M. 859) by way of an affidavit has narrated the harassment that he has suffered whil...
Data of Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) shows that 64 human rights defenders were at risk from state and non-state actors during the period of 16 July to 16 October. It was found that rights of...
Two pieces of legislation have recently been submitted to South Korea’s national assembly, their purpose clearly to restrict people’s rights to . Both have been submitted by the Grand Nati...
Surangi Sandamali Padmini Peiris is the wife of Sugath Nishanta Fernando who was assassinated on September 20 in broad daylight by two unidentified gunmen who the family believes were working on the i...
Dear friends, After closely following the case of Razzak and Shankar (please see further: AHRC-UAU-065-2008 and AHRC-UAU-067-2008), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that R...
Reporters Without Borders condemns the government pressure that led to the debate programme “Ira Anduru Pata” being cut short as it was being broadcast live on the evening of 4 November on...
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to bring to the notice of all lawyers the arrest of two senior lawyers and human rights defenders in Rangoon on November 7, 2008 for submitting a letter to cou...
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