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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-106-2007 May 23, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDONESIA: It is not “MALTREATMENT UNTIL DEATH” but “TORTURED TO DEATH” On 14 Ma...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in Jakarta regarding the death of Teguh Uripno, a man who was brutally tortured by officers attac...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another five activists have been killed while another one was forcibly disappeared in separate incidents in Feb...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned that the suspended Chief Justice, Mr. Iftehkar Chaudhry, will address the members of (SCBA) on May 26, 2007 in the premises of the Supreme Court, Islamaba...

After observing the situation of the rule of law in Sri Lanka for several years and meticulously observing recent developments, the Asian Human Rights Commission is compelled to announce that what Sri...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was happy to note that a new person has been appointed to the position of the Attorney General in Indonesia. This comes as a sigh of relief for the victims and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information regarding the killing of three farmers and gruesome murder of a mother and her son in separate incidents on May...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the bonded labour of t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 65-year-old man by several members of the Kananke Police in the Matara District allege...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding yet another incident of targeted attacks against officials and the offices of a political party, the N...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that S. Kinsley de Silva (48) was brutally tortured by four army officers following his arrest at his residence on 10 Ma...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that two influential persons in Thailand have received long sentences for rape and murder of migrant workers. However, a...

There have been further developments concerning the death of prominent human rights lawyer Munir Said Thalib on board a flight of Indonesia’s national carrier on September 7, 2004. Munir died of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) regarding the forcible abduction and disappearance of two men, Satkunarajah Sasindran ...

With the conclusion of the legislative and local elections in the Philippines on May 14, the extent of deaths, violence and corrupt practices that have occurred during this electoral exercise is extre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the inhuman treatment by the police towards a 29-year-old man, Mr. B Sumith Priyantha Fernando, on 26 March 20...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand under the Emerg...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that another political activist, Orly Marcellana, narrowly avoided an attempt on his life on 10 May 2007. Marcellana is the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a male teacher Prasad Janaka of the Saralankara School in Galle, who was accused in the Magistrate’s Court Ca...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-100-2007 May 13, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns violence unleashed by the military regime leading t...