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A 16-year-old girl, who was gang raped by 11 persons, has been thrown out of her safe house by officials of the Sindh police, Pakistan. On Sunday, June 24, 2007 Mr. Rana Pervez, Senior Superintendent ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received credible information of ongoing attacks, intimidation, surveillance and threats, including death threats, against human rights defen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged brutal assault on a young female student by a male school teacher in the Kegalle district on 18 Jun...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the savage assault of a father of five by the Eheliyagoda Police—allegedly on the instigation of his wife. Th...

Lawyers, protesting against the suspension of the Chief Justice, held a mock funeral ceremony for the notorious “Doctrine of Necessity” on June 26, 2007, at the Lahore High Court Bar Association’s ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-143-2007 June 27, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AG’s reply to IIGEP; Kafkan metamorphosis of the Attorney General’s role The Att...

On June 15, yet more civilians were killed when a person carrying an improvised explosive device (IED) left it to explode in a bus in a crowded public terminal in Bansalan, Davao del Sur. The explosio...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) needs your immediate intervention in the case of a Sri Lankan migrant worker, Nafeek Rizana, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the continued intimidation by members of the Medan District Police towards Suherman’s family, the man who...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Parivartan, a human rights organisation based in Delhi regarding the deliberate victimisation of a student, Mr. Djh...

A recording and transcripts of a conversation have been made available online which if true expose the extent to which Thailand’s senior judiciary is compromised and controlled by outsiders, and...

“Ratification and implementation of the convention in responsible manner showed the Indonesia’s seriousness in order to promote and protection of human rights, especially the right of freedom from t...

on June 26, 2007, and focuses on the ongoing problem of torture in Nepal. It is based on the daily monitoring of 35 police detention centres in Nepal, during which Advocacy Forum has alone documented ...

(We refer to earlier communications regarding the Sri Lankan’s Chief Justice’s proposed visit to Hong Kong to attend a meeting at the City University. Kindly see SRI LANKA: The Sunday Times publishe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appealing to you to write to the Indian authorities to release Dr. Binayak Sen, a human rights activist and medical doctor currently being hel...

They heard the thud of wood on flesh. Boot on bone. On teeth. The muffled grunt when a stomach is kicked in. The muted crunch of skull on cement. The gurgle of blood on a man’s breath when his l...

(We produce here a news item published in the Sunday Times, June 24, 2007 ‘CJ off to HK despite protests’ which was a completely fabricated story). We also reproduce below a copy of a letter written...

The Prime Minister of India declared in a public speech early this year that India would soon ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Pu...

Pakistan is a country where even Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the apex court, is not spared physical and mental torture by the country’s law enforcement agencies.  Mr. Iftekhar Choudhary, the...

Bangladesh has been a sitting member of the UN Human Rights Council since 9 May 2006, and has passed more than a year in the world’s top human rights forum. Before being elected to the Council Bangla...