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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-013-2008 January 14, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Boycott of courts by lawyers enters 75th day and the government’s attacks on...

Last week when the JVP announced the consensus of the several minority parties to nominate their candidate, to the Constitutional Council, former Auditor General, Mr S.C. Mayadunne, a public officer o...

PAKISTAN: The exclusive interview with Munir Malik to We are publishing an interview with Munir Malik, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association who was imprisoned and given drugs unde...

Already within the first month of this year two legislators have been assassinated. One was a minister in the government and the suspected killers are the LTTE, the other was a Tamil Member of Parliam...

A bomb exploded in Lahore, the capital city of Punjab province, on January 10, killing more than 30 persons and injuring 70, mostly policemen, outside the Lahore High Court building where lawyers had ...

In a functioning criminal justice system, offenders of a crime are given an appropriate punishment following prompt and effective judicial proceedings. In the Philippines, however, it is commonly expe...

(Hong Kong, January 10, 2008) “Sri Lanka needs a popular mass movement which is not affiliated to any political parties to fight against lawlessness and to re-establish the rule of law” said Mr. J.C...

After the enormous reaction to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and a popular politician, the Musharraf government has registered more than 3,000 cases against more than ...

At the height of the escalating incidents of the murder of activists, there was strong condemnation, both within and outside the country that forced the government to do something to stop the killing....

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a group of unknown persons had attempted to abduct a journalist on 7 January 2008. They came in two vehicles that w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Teras Ram who died from starvation in Baisa village of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state...

While expressions of despair manifest themselves in many countries in the Asian region, all that the governments of these countries offer to those who express their despair is the guillotine. Ruthless...

The case of Rizana Nafeek, a young girl from Sri Lanka who went to Saudi Arabia as a domestic helper when a 17 year-old teenager, and who was within a very short time accused of the murder of a infant...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported that over several years, violence, blockades and lawsuits have been used in successive attempts to evict hundreds of fa...

The attention of this committee has been drawn towards the lackluster performance of police authorities in carrying out effective investigation in connection to the arrest, torture and subsequent kill...

Six journalists were killed, three of them while performing their professional duties, 73 were injured, mostly by the police in the worst year for? the journalists?in a decade while media remained und...

03.01.08 Media Release 1 Abrogation of Ceasefire Agreement Will Escalate Spiral of Violence The government has announced that it will abrogate the Norwegian-facilitated Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) signe...

In December 2007, a bishop and three priests of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church or PIC) once again have been threatened that they will be killed and have been the sub...

On 31 December 2007 an online news agency — BD News24.com — of Bangladesh published a report with the title ‘DMP commissioner blames failure of police on political pressure’. The report ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statem...