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SRI LANKA: State-controlled newspaper publishes dangerous allegations against Sri Lanka Press Institute 

ALERT – SRI LANKA 27 June 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release: State media level dangerous allegation Free Media Movement exp...

PAKISTAN: Threat of death of a young couple under the name of honour killing

[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...

BANGLADESH: Crimes of the armed forces are not beyond judicial procedures

The New Age, a Dhaka-based national English daily, has published a report yesterday (26 June 2008) quoting a former General of Bangladesh Army, who has launched a political party during the ongoing St...

SOUTH KOREA: Government’s failure to realise people’s health

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-180-2008 June 27, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  SOUTH KOREA: Government’s failure to realise people’s health A public announcement ...

SRI LANKA: A senior public interest lawyer suspended from legal practice for seven years

Mr. Elmore Perera, a 74-year-old lawyer who has devoted most of his time to public interest litigation was suspended yesterday, 26th June from his practice for seven years by the Supreme Court of Sri ...

SRI LANKA: Ministry of Human Rights ignores UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

June 26th was the United Nation’s Day in . As far as Sri Lanka is concerned the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights did nothing to commemorate this day. Instead the statements from ...

INDONESIA: Exposing the silence of torture 

Today, 26 June, is a historical day for all mankind. Today, everyone around the world is commemorating theInternational Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, everyone is coming together t...

SRI LANKA: Police officials harass independent news website 

ALERT – SRI LANKA 25 June 2008 Police recently labeled by government as “treacherous”; its editor continually threatened SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) –...

SRI LANKA: Human rights organisations mark the Day in Support of Victims of Torture

(Hong Kong, June 27, 2008) Several human rights organisations held meetings and other activities to highlight the problem of torture and the sufferings of the torture victims in several locations in S...

PHILIPPINES: The Silence of Torture, the Torture of Silence 

I remember watching two movies where the word silence played an eerie role. One was the “Silent Scream,” the other, the “Silence of the Lambs.” In both movies, violence took place with the vi...

PAKISTAN: Military officers dislocate centuries-old fishing communities

[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...

THAILAND: Paying lip-service to addressing torture

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) At the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2008, the ambassador of Thaila...

INDIA: Empty rhetoric preaching human rights will not prevent torture

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Giasuddin Mandol is an iron scrap dealer from the North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal. ...

NEPAL: Criminalizing torture is an important step to ensure the transitional justice

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Nepal successfully held the Constituent Assembly (CA) election on April 10th, 2008 and was de...

PAKISTAN: No prohibition of torture in domestic law

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Pakistan signed the Convention against Torture and other cruel, Inhuman or degrading treatmen...

PHILIPPINES: Judicial remedy for victims of torture must be adopted too

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Article III, Section 12 (2) of the 1987 Philippine Constitution clearly prohibits the use of ...

INDONESIA: International review pointed out country’s torture problem

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-172-2008 June 25, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day against Torture INDONESIA: International review pointed ...

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh patronises torture instead of criminalising it

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) The UN declared 26 June as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in 1997 in orde...

SRI LANKA: No political will to eradicate torture

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Torture is a way of life at all police stations in Sri Lanka, whether the alleged crimes inve...

CAMBODIA: Cambodia needs an independent national mechanism for the prevention of torture, not another government inspection body

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.)  In the second half of the 1970s the Cambodian people experienced among the worst cases of s...