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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on a man by several policemen of the Rakwana police allegedly for refusing to pay a bribe solicite...

On the night of October 18, 2007, two blasts occurred at the welcoming procession of thousands of people, arranged for arrival of Benazir Bhutto, the Chairperson of the Pakistan People Party, after he...

On the 27th October the day for the disappeared will be commemorated by the Families of the Disappeared and Right to Life together with the Asian Human Rights Commission. The monument for the disappea...

Quite regularly reports appear in the press of persons in police custody, having tried to attack the police with grenades or other weapons, being shot dead. The Gampaha police are reported to have kil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from DASAN Human Rights Center, a human rights oranisation in South Korea that a mentally handicapped minor was kept in ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the police, particularly the Task Force Usig (TFU), to promptly afford necessary protection and...

Last week, almost exactly on the same day, two victims of crime expressed in public their fear of their attackers long after the offences had taken place. The first one was Ms Chem Sopheap, 35, a vend...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from SUARAM, a human rights organisation in Malaysia that on 10 November 2007 the police cracked down on a peaceful demon...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the family of U Than Lwin, who was assaulted in June after leading a prayer meeting in Burma for the release of politi...

Three months after its last hearing, the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (HRC) has not fixed a date to recommence the inquiry into the disappearance of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Nadaraja...

COLOMBO, 13 OCTOBER 2007 I wish to thank His Excellency the President for inviting me to visit Sri Lanka and the Government of Sri Lanka for facilitating my program.   I would like to thank Minister...

BURMA: Webpage launched for jailed “Hinthada 6” (Hong Kong, October 16, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Tuesday launched a new webpage on the case of six jailed human rights def...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another incident whereby four activists, two of them were reported by us to have already been threatened a year ago, ...

The following is a reply to a report published on October 12, 2007 in The Official Website of the Sri Lankan Government’s Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, written by the Secretary...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the violent dispersal of protesting workers by the police in Manila. The workers were about to commence a hunger s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources in Nepal that a journalist Mr. Birendra Shah was abducted by the members of the Communist Party of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the husband of a human rights defender in the south of Thailand has been shot dead. Ma-usoh Malong’s wife has...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in Howrah, West Bengal regarding the case of a person who was tortur...

(Hong Kong, October 12, 2007) According to the law firm Kateb Fahad Al-Shammari, the appeal filed on behalf of Ms. Rizana Nafeek who was sentenced to capital punishment by a Saudi Court is still pendi...

The leading members of the legal profession and judiciary of Sindh Province in Pakistan are being continuously victimized and harassed for protesting against the holding of presidential elections and ...