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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-257-2007 November 05, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Appeal to the international community to take a firm stand for democracy and human ri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that on 4 July 2007, a court in Sihanoukville ordered the release of 13 men who were arrested in April 2007 whil...

Dear friends, Further to our recent update on court orders that at least 300 men in southern Thailand could not be held at so-called “vocational training” camps against their will (UP-123-...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that an activist, Ruel Munasque, who was forcibly taken by soldiers on 24 October 2007, has disappeared while in their custo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by yet another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in West Bengal, India. According ...

movement On 30 October 2007, the Constitutional Court of Indonesia read out its verdict on the constitutional review of the Narcotics Law that provides for the death penalty in several articles. The c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the requests to appeal against imprisonment of the “Hinthada 6” and another human rights defender from the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that although over 300 men have been allowed to go free from a number of army camps in the south of Thailand after court orders that...

The government of General Musharraf is planning to amend the Army Act of 1952 empowering the state intelligence agencies to keep suspected persons in custody as long as they require without producing ...

Basil Fernando (A presentation for the International Seminar on Freedom from Torture – Challenges we face for the rehabilitation and prevention on the occasion on the 25th anniversary of the Rehabili...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the Bulathsinhala police who failed to conduct an investigation into the complaint of a man who was stabbed by...

(Hong Kong, October 31, 2007) Three courts in southern Thailand on Tuesday ruled that the authorities could not hold hundreds of men in vocational training camps there against their will, thus upholdi...

Representatives of several human rights organizations in Pakistan have visited the hospitals where hundreds of victims of the October 18 are being treated. The bomb blasts occurred during the welcomin...

We reproduce below the first of a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced b...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Piliyandala police beat a man on 27 September 2007. It was only after the victim produced a letter from the off...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of Mr. Jahangir Alam Akash, a journalist and human rights defender based in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources concerning several cases of extrajudicial killings and threats to media personnel in Sri Lanka sin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged attack on a student on 10 October 2007. He is the brother of a torture victim who was earlier tort...

Ms. Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister and Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party, after returning Pakistan from self exile of seven years, is holding mammoth gatherings and welcoming receptions i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the renewed surveillance being carried out on a legal aid office for workers and labour organizations. Staff members of t...