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The Asian Human Rights Commission issued an Urgent Appeal, AHRC-UAC-144-2008, with regard to a young couple (Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim and Mrs. Zainab Ibrahim), who have been threatened with death because...
Last August Cambodia adopted a code of criminal procedure. In a section on pre-trial detention this code succinctly stipulates the presumption in favour of bail, and allows pre-trial detention in spec...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the five men, collectively known as the Tagaytay Five, whom we reported to have been missing but were later found in po...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Jagaran Media Center (JMC), a local media group fighting against caste discrimination, regarding a recent case of cast...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the constant, serious threats and attacks on women rights activists who have been working for justice for the deceased Ms...
[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police investigator has told the mother of a boy who was complaining about the beating of her son by a school principal ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police arrested a man for posting handbills, relating to a candle light vigil,on a wall. They fabricated an investi...
An incident which happened this week was shocking confirmation of the fears repeatedly expressed by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) about threats to the legal system of Sri Lanka. A special p...
A High Court Division Bench of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared on Sunday (13 July 2008) that promulgation of ordinance by the country’s President, under unelected caretaker government b...
While a researcher for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) were conducting random interviews on the case of the Abadilla Five, a short comment from a father, Victoriano Galang, which we have publ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) seeks your kind intervention regarding an illegal inquiry and harassment initiated by the Government of Sri Lanka against four reputed human . The facts relati...
Mr. Sarath Kumara Naitos, aged 38 years, was arrested on 5 July 2008 around 12.30pm while he was working at Kesalwatta in a house, in Panadura, Sri Lanka. The arrest was carried out by the officers fr...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding illegal arrest and detention of a person named Mr. Sarath Kumara Naitos. The Moratuwa police arrested him on 5...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a journalist named Khim Sambor who worked for a local newspaper, Moneaksekar Khmer, and his son were shot dead on 11 July in Phn...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) cautiously welcomes the effort by the judiciary to re-start their program called “justice-on-wheels”. The program, which started conducting hearing...
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 caste discrimination pract...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a lawyer, who provided legal advice at the site of protests, was attacked and severely injured by a shield used by ...
On July 2, 2008 the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan made the decision to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. This was extremely good news for death row prisoners who number 7,379 at the last ...
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