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Criminalisation of politics in India is a growing problem, despite legal attempts to address it. In 2003 a law was introduced to prohibit the election of criminals or alleged criminals to state or cen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, regarding the death of a 16 year ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a list of name of 81 persons who disappeared between August 2006 to 20 March 2007. This list was documented by the Civil Monitoring ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the custodial death of Mr. Sajedur Rahman Sarkar Sajid (please see UA-190-2006 and UP-147-2006). We wer...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to inform you that on Monday, 2 April 2007, the criminal charge against a man who satirised state media in Burma was dropped by the local cou...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Working Group on Justice for Peace that the post mortem inquest into the deaths of 78 persons in Narathiwat, southern Th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the killing of a 15-year-old boy by soldiers in southern Thailand. Abukoree Kasor was shot dead while he travelled...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Uttar Pradesh, the PVCHR, regarding the alleged attack on the Dalit community by the upper cas...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh that the 18 Musa...

The AHRC forwards a reflection on the current workings of some sections of the Sri Lankan media in relation to a recent case involving a head of the international non-governmental organisation (INGO) ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, India, about the apparent police inaction into...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the alleged murder of two...

The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the bombings at Konduwattuvan, Ampara on April 2 and Mailambaveli, Eravur on April 1 which have killed and injured many innocent civilians. The government ha...

(This is the third in a series of statements on the challenges facing democracy, rule of law and human rights in Nepal at present. The first and second statements appeared on March 31 and April 2, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh that the Musahar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the alleged subsequent pressure to teenage torture victims Alagiyawadu Lakmal Chathuranga and L.P. Pradeep...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that another farmer in Burma who was jailed for complaining against local officials has been released after her sentence...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you that a young woman was arrested and charged with theft without proper police investigation or concrete evidence against ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) has started an investigation into the torture case of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote to you about a rape case happened in Khulna district, the victim has faced continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to the delib...