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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by MASUM, a local human rights organisation in West Bengal that a man who is an Indian national has been falsely identified as ...

On 24th July the Asian Human Rights Commission issued an Urgent Appeal in the case of the disappearance of a lady doctor. The UA, PAKISTAN/USA: A lady doctor remains missing with her three children fi...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 30 July 2008 FMM concerned over army commander’s justification of recent attacks against journalists SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The fol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that several union leaders and factory workers of a footwear company were illegally terminated when some of their female col...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a young conscripted man who has served as a battle policeman. He has been repeatedly ill-treated by way of discipl...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of villagers by the Wera Sector Police and the Bima Resort Police, in West Nusa Tenggara Province ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Pitabaddara police allegedly severely assaulted a young man after arresting him during which time they allowed ...

A 50 –year-old residential area, home to about 800 families is being demolished in central Colombo. The demolition is taking place in the national security style and is being pursued by the Ministry ...

During the previous seven days at least four persons were executed by hanging in different cities of Pakistan despite the decision of the federal cabinet on July 2, 2008, to commute the death sentence...

CA SERIAL DISMISSALS OF AMPARO PETITIONS: ENCOURAGING THE ESCALATION OF EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES The NUPL strongly criticizes the recent spate of decisions by the Court of A...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a military police officer,  Nget Vutha alias Kin, slapped a journalist, Ros Phina in the face for reporting on his facilitating...

On the 29th July, 2008 the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh stayed the order of the High Court Division on appointing ten former judges, who were illegally sacked, according to a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew, Hun To, ordered his bodyguards to attack a Member of Parliament named Nuon Vuthy on 19 Ju...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received from the Advocacy Forum yet another torture case allegedly committed by the Parbat district police officers on 15 July 2008. The vic...

(Hong Kong, July 28, 2008) All the respondents from interviews conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) agreed that the delays in the trial of the Abadilla Five case highlighted the endem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the police authorities, in particular in Davao City, are now trying to exonerate themselves from their continued failur...

The Federal Law minister, Farooq H. Naek, while talking to the media said that, “The (previously dismissed) judges were welcome to resume their responsibilities. They only had to take a fresh oath un...

A young man is now in the Colombo Eye Hospital having permanently lost his sight in one eye due to acid being thrown in his face while he was in police custody. The police, acting in connivance with a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat, regarding the rape and subsequent traffi...

The Asian Human Rights Commission today wrote to the UN Special Rapporteur against Torture regarding a case of torture and illegal dentetion for seven days at the Moratuwa Police Station which also fi...