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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a local human rights organisation in Uttar Pradesh, the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), that a 1...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Elpitiya police allegedly tortured two young men and fabricated charges while they kept them in police custody, on ...

While welcoming the release of 11-year-old Pakistani-American, Muhammad Ahmad, from the murky realm of US custody in Afghanistan, the Asian Human Rights Commission is still waiting for information on ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Gampaha police assaulted a person after hanging him from a roof beam in the police station. He was illegally ar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention to support a 38-year old torture victim Ms. Sumitra Khawas. According to the information received from the Adv...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned to hear from the United States Department of Justice that an 11-year old boy, and US-Pakistani Citizen, Mohammed Ahmad, has been illegally detained in Af...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 10 September 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 9 September 2008 FMM press release: Another journalist shot and critically in...

The Tissainayagam case raises a fundamental question about the different kinds of criminal trials offered to the accused under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), and Emergency Regulations as again...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to inform you that in August 2008, the Kavrepalanchowk district police finally registered a complaint made by a widow of Arjun Bohadur...

Thank you sir, Hon. Deputy Chairman, I am sad and dismayed to note the empty government benches. This is the all important emergency debate. But where are the government ministers for observations and...

By Samanthi Dissanayake BBC News Aid agencies in Sri Lanka are assessing their future strategy after the government said it could no longer guarantee the safety of aid workers in rebel-held territory ...

New Government Should Investigate Past Abuses and Prosecute Perpetrators (Kathmandu: September 10, 2008) – The new Maoist-led government of Nepal should investigate and prosecute those responsible fo...

A UN media statement: 9 September 2008 -Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed deep concern over escalating and the humanitarian impact of the clashes on civilians. The South Asian nation’...

8 August 2008 – The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern today over the safety of thousands of families fleeing escalating violence in northern Sri Lanka between Government forces and...

By recommending the impeachment of a High Court judge, the Chief Justice of India has revived a dead debate concerning the Indian judiciary. On August 2, 2008 in a letter addressed to the Prime Minist...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an anchor person working for a prominent television channel has incited Muslims in Pakistan to kill – to deva...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information on the case of a man who has been arrested and charged in Burma for having had contact with an overseas...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that thewhereabouts of Md. Shafik Ullah Monayem, a politician, has not been known for 9 months following an arr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding further delays in the conclusion of the Petition for Review on Certiorari that the Abadilla Five has filed. We pre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh that a 15-year-old girl was abducted by human t...