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April 14, 2008 Mr. C.R. De Silva the Hon. Attorney General  Attorney General’s Department Colombo 12 SRI LANKA Fax: +94 11 2 436 421 Dear Mr. De Silva, Re: Case No. HC326/03 – Request for appe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 14-year-old boy who was recovering from typhus, has died after having been punished by his teacher for failing to do his...

The brutal attacks on April 9, 2008, in Karachi claimed the lives of 14 persons including a child. Six persons were burned alive of which four persons were lawyers and the other two their two women cl...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights organisation working in Uttar ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that 37 protestors have been injured when the policemen violently dispersed them. The police hit them with clubs, truncheons...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Katugastota police allegedly assaulted a young man whilst in the custody on 28 March 2008. The police did not produce him ...

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Lawyers Without Borders/Canada (LWB/C) call on the Government of Pakistan to immediately provide effective protection to ...

The news that 54 persons died in the back of a truck as they were being transported to work illegally in Thailand on 10 April 2008 has again drawn global attention to the desperate conditions in Burma...

(Geneva, April 9, 2008) We, the Indonesian NGO Coalition on Universal Periodic Review (UPR), express our utter disappointment and deep regret over the UPR review of Indonesia. Widely shared hopes and ...

Kishallie Pinto Jayawardena writing on behalf of the Law Society and Trust, (LST) a reputed Sri Lankan organisation has requested the Attorney General to file appeal against the judgement of the High ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Paikgachha police had been harassing a family following a land dispute between two persons, which is beyond the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur about the murder of Mr. Longjam Utta...

According to reports from Karachi seven charred bodies have been recovered yesterday, the 9th April, 2008. Among them were the bodies of five lawyers including two women. In total 11 persons were kill...

(Hong Kong, April 9, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission has written to the Attorney General of Sri Lanka requesting him to appeal against the judgement of the Negombo High Court delivered on 2nd ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the accused police officers responsible for the torture of Gerald Perera, who was later assassinated before giving evi...

We reproduce below a letter written to the Vice Chancellor of the Sri Jayawardenapura Univestiy and the Chairperson of the University Grants Commission regarding the complaint of several academics who...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has started the first session of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) from yesterday. India is among the 16 states that will be reviewed during this sess...

In recognition of the horrific violations of the rights of its people in its recent past and in order to prevent any recurrence of such violations, Cambodia, by virtue of the Paris Peace Agreements of...

The Sinhala and Tamil New Year used to be a time of recreation and relaxation for all the communities of Sri Lanka, more or less like Christmas time in the west, or Chinese New Year for the Chinese. H...

In the Philippines, hundreds of social activists and human rights defenders have been unlawfully killed as well as subjected to enforced disappearances since the Arroyo Administration came into power....