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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores a decision by a Sri Lanka court on June 30 to continue the detention without charge of journalist J.S. Tissainayagam and to reject his appeal...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained information that two activists appealing the illegal arrest of others, and one activist monitoring police violence during recent pro...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police allegedly ordered parents to pay a bribe of 150000 riels (US$37.5) each if their sons were not to be arrested after t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-187-2008 July 9, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: Arbitrary arrest that become de facto legal is endemic The rules of arrest under se...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was informed by Advocacy Forum- Nepal of the alleged brutal torture of three girls by the officers from the District Police Office, Surkhet, Nepa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of H.M. Susantha Herath who was brutally tortured by the Gokarella police on 4 July 2005 (UA-...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from ODHIKAR, a Dhaka-based human rights organization that a man was found dead after he was left by Detective officers ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-186-2008 July 7, 2008 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Indonesian Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) INDONESIA: Failure ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that soldiers beat villagers when they protested against the grabbing of their land in Chey Sena village, Ta Ken commune, Chhouk dist...

The Sri Lanka Press Institution (SLPI) and the Newspaper Publishers Association are offering a reward of Rs. 5 million (Approximately US$ 50,000) for information on the assault on the journalist, Nama...

Slaughter of Innocents http://noprotection.blog.humanrights.asia/ While this Statement is being written, more and more persons, including minors, have been targeted for murder on the pretext of ‘vigi...

The Bangladeshi media, during the weekend (28 and 29 June 2008), published the news of a cell phone theft by a police officer that has been found to be true following investigation. According to the r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a peasant was murdered, one was abducted and several more were injured in an attack by a powerful group. After the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information on the case of Ko Htin Kyaw, one of the persons who was illegally detained in Burma since August 2007 for being...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) that a man was dead on the way to a hospital after being beaten by ...

Attacks on journalists continue unabated despite of massive protests from local and international agencies and despite all sorts of talk by the spokesmen for the government about stopping human rights...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Nationa...

The Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked and outraged at the brutal assault of former TNL News Director and currently Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) employee Namal Perera and a friend this evening (...

(Hong Kong, July 2, 2008) Random interviews conducted by a researcher for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have revealed that the plight of the Abadilla Five is a shared experience and common ...

This story is not only my story. Many other Dalit human rights activists have the same experience as me. When I talked about my life with other Dalits human rights defenders in Gujarat, we realised th...