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[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 36-year-old man, Mihindukulasuriya Lal Fernando, by several members of the Negombo Pol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 53-year-old man, Mr. Premasiri Uduwatte, was allegedly threatened, arrested and briefly detained in lieu of his s...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is very concerned about the lack of progress in the investigation prosecution of three army officers identified by a court as responsible for the...
As the movement to defend the suspended Chief Justice and the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan has gathered momentum in all part of the country as demonstrated by mammoth crowds congregating ...
In 2005, the Phnom Penh Court convicted and sentenced two men — Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun — to 20 years in prison for the murder of renowned labour union leader Chea Vichea in 2004. In...
Justice S. Anandacoomaraswamy Chairman Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka No. 36 Kynsey Road Colombo 08 Sri Lanka Tel: +94 11 2694925 Fax: +94 11 2694924 Email: sechrc@sltnet.lk Dear Mr. Justice An...
On May 5, 2007, a man told the media how he had been brutally tortured as part of a police investigation inside Camp Rafael Crame in Quezon City, the national headquarters of the Philippine National P...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the Sihanoukville governor, Say Hak, lodged a file complaint against Mr. Chhim Savuth, a human rights inves...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had previously received information that the Ratanakiri provincial governor allegedly rejected the prosecutor’s decision, made on 16 Novemb...
Mr. I. G. Pushpakumara (30) a navy officer said to be assigned to VIP security who was on home leave was beaten to death by a mob who believed that he was trying to escape after committing the theft o...
Dear friends, The Administrative Court in Thailand has turned down a petition challenging the decision of the Royal Thai Police and its commissioner general to reappoint the five policemen who are all...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest under fabricated charge of an uncle and grandfather of a 3-year-old child who was knocked...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan made an order yesterday (May 7) suspending the judicial panel hearing into the accusation made by the military regime against the country’s suspended Chief Justice ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission sent an Urgent Appeal on February 26, 2007 (UA-063-2007) to several government authorities to which a reply was received on May 7, 2007 from you as the Additional Sec...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that the husband of a political activist, Usman Ali (40), was shot dead at a public market in Pikit, North Cotabato ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 2 May 2007 at around 5:30 pm, a local journalist named Chim Chenda, who works for Kampuchea Thmei (New Cambodia)...
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