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The Prime Minister of India in his foreword in the ‘Report to The People’ dated May 22, 2007, claims: “In this 60th year of independence, the country should have the satisfaction of ...

On 30 May 2007 Thailand’s senior judges participated in a farce that was not of their making but has, thanks to their acquiescence to the country’s military regime, been made to appear one...

Both of us who are the authors of this letter are from Cambodia and Pakistan, two countries that have witnessed the bitterest lessons of dictatorship. We were shocked and saddened to see a statement i...

(Hong Kong, May 31, 2007) On May 26, 2007 five persons belonging to the same family were chopped to death in their own home. According to reports the alleged cause of the multiple murders was a land d...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 92 families were forcibly evicted from their 120 hectares of land in Sangkat (commune) O’ Tress, Khan (distri...

On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, three senior journalists received death threats in the city of Karachi, Sindh province. Envelopes containing live bullets were found attached to the driver’s side of the win...

(Following is the text of Mr. Muneer Malik’s speech which he delivered on May 26, 2007 when the Supreme Court Bar Association held a seminar on “separation of powers and judicial independence&#...

Mr. Suhada K. Gamalath – Secretary  Judicial Service Commission Superior Court Complex Colombo 12 Sri Lanka Fax: + Fax: 94 11 2320785 Dear Mr. Gamalath: SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to the JSC reg...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about threats to which human rights defender Mr. Jitman Basnet of Solukhumbu District, Nepal, was subjected on May 21, 2...

The killing of five members of a single family at Delgoda over a land dispute, a subsequent mob attack in which three houses in the neighbourhood were burned, followed by the shooting of two alleged s...

The Supreme Council of the Magistracy (SCM) of Cambodia, the supreme judicial body governing the judiciary, should be commended for having recently adopted a code of ethics for judges. The adoption of...

Chhattisgarh and Kerala are two states in India. Chhattisgarh is a newly formed state compared to Kerala. Chhattisgarh and Kerala have nothing much in common. For example, the Chief Justice of India i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the leadership of the military to surrender their men, including a sergeant who is subject to a...

Mr. W.N.J. Lokubandara The Honourable Speaker Parliament of Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sri Lanka Fax: +94 11 2777564 To the Honourable Speaker and all Honourable Members of the Parliament of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about another post mortem inquest into the killings of people by the security forces in southern Thailand. The inquest c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about continuing threats, including death threats, and harassment allegedly being perpetrated by members of the Communis...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information regarding a death of a 25-year-old man Quamrul Islam Majnu after allegedly being brutally assaulted by the members of the Ra...

Dear friends, As the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has already reported (UA-136-2007; UP-065-2007) police in Kalasin district of northeastern Thailand are accused of abducting and killing at l...

SINDH BAR COUNCIL Sindh High Court Building (Annexe) Karachi. Dated: 15/05/2007 RESOLUTION This extra. ordinary meeting of the Members of the Sindh Bar Council held on 15th May 2007 strongly condemns ...

(A comment on the Indian Supreme Court judgement on the Best Bakery Case) –Basil Fernando, May 2007 …[B]ullshitters, although they represent themselves as being engaged simply in conveying...