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On March 26, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) spokesman Ed Diansuy was reported to have cautioned civil society groups inside and outside of the country from taking the matter of extrajudicial exe...

From: RSF ASIA <asie@rsf.org> Subject: SRI LANKA: Army said to be holding Tamil journalist who 23 March 2007 Following the police chief’s recent admission that the security forces have bee...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 16 year-old female gang-rape survivor has been allegedly ordered by the police to leave the safe-house where she and her famil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one renowned trade union activist and human rights defender namely Mr. Phani Gopal Bhattacharya, has allegedly been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was il...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today issued an appeal on a case that has been heard in the Bangkok South Criminal Court since 1993. The four defendants are accused of having plotted to kill ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of yet another murderous assault in Burma which officials are trying to cover up. Ko Naing Oo was taken into custody by subu...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher at the school on 15 March 2007. The victim was seve...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an announcement about a programme to be held at the National Human Rights Commission in Bangkok this Wednesday, March 28, on forced...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information about a trial in Thailand that has been going on for 14 years. The trial of four men for allegedly planning to ...

On March 20, Commissioner Eligio Mallari of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced it had submitted the results of its investigation that recommend the dismissal of complaints against Maj. Gen...

In January 2007, while international judges and their Cambodian counterparts on the Khmer Rouge tribunal were working on the internal rules for the hearings, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Camb...

The legal community of Pakistan has rejected a government offer for talks, while demanding the withdrawal of the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and the formation of a natio...

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), and Pax Roma...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source (name withheld for security reasons), regarding the cases of abductions of 15 innocent civilians i...

[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...

On 19 March 2007, Bangladesh’s national television channel BTV announced in a news bulletin that the present government has “in principle decided to establish a National Human Rights Commi...

Not only is democracy being subverted in the Philippines, but its meaning is also misunderstood. While the country may have made economic gains in recent times, to declare them as proof of a “strong ...