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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a torture victim as well as a complainant in a bribery case against the police was assassinated by unidentified gunmen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an inmate died in Negombo prison after being assaulted by jail guards on 4 July 2008. While the investigation was b...

Dear Friends, We are forwarding the transcript of the statement of Professor Yash Ghai, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Human Rights in Cambodia presented to the 9th session...

The alleged US arrest in July of Pakistan-US national Dr Aafia Siddiqui has left a series of unanswered questions about her missing children. With Dr Siddiqui now in US custody it is suspected that tw...

On the 20th September Sugath Nishanta Fernando, of Negombo who was the complainant in a bribery case and a torture case in which the allegations were against several police officers of the Negombo are...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information on the case of a woman in lower Burma who has been jailed for over one year for allegedly swearing at some loca...

The arrests and detentions without trial and the circumstances leading to the same of the abovenamed three under the Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) on Sept. 12, 2008 are a source of grave concern fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned over the safety of one woman torture victim named Ms. Sumitra Khawas. According to the information received from the Advocac...

(Please note that a similar letter was also sent to the Secretary to the Ministry, Prof Rajiva Wijesinghe) September 21, 2008 Hon. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe Ministry of Disaster Management and Hum...

Prompt enquiries from a competent and independent special police unit needs to be conducted into to the assassination of Siyaguna Kosgodage Anton Sugath Nishantha Fernando, who was a complainant in a ...

The Supreme Court of Nepal, during an emergency five-hour hearing of the full court on September 19, retaliated against the president of the Nepal Bar Association (NBA), Bishwa Kant Mainali, and his r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that while five students were being assaulted and ill- treated by teachers, the principal failed to intervene in the sit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Guria, a local human rights organisation based in Varanasi, India that a female minor, Maya, was kidnapped and sold by human...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 18 August 2008, senior police officers from the Ratnapura Police Station assaulted police officers from another ...

The ongoing violence in Orissa, India, reflects the current status of the rule of law in that state. The violent incidents that devastated the thin line of communal harmony in the state are the result...

The government of Pakistan has not held the presenter of a popular TV program on Geo TV, accountable for stoking the already-prevalent religious hatred of Pakistan’s beleaguered Ahmadi minority,...

The protest made by Prof. Yash Ghai in his written statement to the 9th Session of the UN Human Rights Council is an eye-opener. He speaks of the failure of the Cambodian government to cooperate with ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a minor was raped by two men respectively on different occasions in Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. It is reported that one of...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the government of Nepal’s plan to deport all Tibetans living in the country to India, without valid refugee certificates. The g...

The Sri Lankan government has accepted complete responsibility for ensuring the safety of internally displaced persons living in the Kilinochchi area. The UN agencies and INGOs have complied with the ...