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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Head Quarter’s Inspector allegedly assaulted a principal and a teacher on 7 July 2008. It is reported that ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation working on women trafficking in Uttar Pradesh regarding the death threats ...
The AHRC writes with deep concern that 25 persons, including three children and a lady have been murdered in separate incidents from February to June of this year in Davao City. The manner in which th...
(Hong Kong, August 8, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today reiterates its concerns, which are also shared by the group of lawyers in Mindanao, of an urgent need for authorities to have...
IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community ALERT – SRI LANKA 6 August 2008 Newspaper pressured to cancel defence columns by army commander SOURCE: Free Media Moveme...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a conscripted young man who objected to military service based on his conscience on 27 July 2008, received an order...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by MASUM, a local human rights organisation in West Bengal that a young boy of 15 years of age was killed by a BSF officer in W...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) that Mr. Mahfuzul Haydar Chowdhury Roton was arbitrarily arrested o...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the assault of a journalist by military police on 25 July 2008 at their headquarters in Sihanoukville....
What is silly and what is cruel may be relative. However, what Sarath Kumara Naidos, his wife, Sriyani, his mother, Asilin, his sister, Mangalike, her husband, Neil and his mother, Nandawathie are goi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you of another three cases against three persons who were illegally detained after the protests in Burma last September against...
Demonstrations have continued since May 2, when the government failed to put an end to the people’s concerns about their right to health. The agreement on beef importation between the Korean gov...
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission WORLD: The US Congress must investigate Dr. Afia’s case The United States and its security organisations including the Federal Bureau of Investig...
Hong Kong: August 5, 2008 We are pleased that Prof. Wijesinhe, the Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process, has apologised for his statement dated 5th August, Furthe...
A Press Release from the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: A further false report from the ‘Peace Secretariat’ We call upon all those who have received the aforementioned sta...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the local human rights organisation, the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the ...
A specially trained Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team consisting of 1,700 professional police officers was formed on July 30, 2008, just days was before the visit of President Bush, of the Unite...
On July 30, 2008 the Supreme Court of Cambodia upheld a lower courts ruling that found Prince Norodom Ranariddh guilty of breach of trust and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. Ranariddh was the ...
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