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Several international experts have, in the recent week, focused on a number of very crucial issues regarding the criminal justice system of Sri Lanka. They have commented on the need for the governmen...

President Musharaff removed the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, on March 9, 2007 after summoning him to the President’s Camp Office in the military premises. The President thereaft...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has requested the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to permit the construction of a small marker at the site of the 12 March 2004 abduction of human rights l...

You will be familiar with the case of Somchai Neelaphaijit, the human rights lawyer who was forcibly disappeared in Bangkok on the night of 12 March 2004 after he had publicly alleged that five of his...

(Hong Kong, March 12, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission congratulates Kishali Pinto-Jayawardene of Sri Lanka for being recognized as Sri Lanka’s Woman of Courage for the year 2007.  Ms. P...

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) launched on Friday a new report describing how the rotten criminal justice system in the Philippines fails to deliver justice to its people and contributes to th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the government authorities have started an investigation into the case of two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling your attention to the following list of the people who have been allegedly killed, arrested and abducted since January 2006 in Sri Lan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the unlawful arrest and illegal detention of Mihindukulasuriya Varnapelige Maheshan Manojith Silva, a 20 year-...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an announcement about a programme to be held in Bangkok this Sunday, March 11, to mark the third anniversary of the abduction by th...

The recent statement of the Inspector General of Police and his Deputy to the effect that policemen, soldiers and deserters are among those who have been investigated with regard to the allegations of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights organisation KONTRAS about the alleged violent disturbance at a conference organized by the Nati...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist named Mr. Lal Malhi who produced a documentary on disappearances was threatened and nearly abducted by the...

On March 6, the Human Security Act of 2007, which defines acts of terrorism, was signed into law (the law is available on the internet at http://philippines.ahrchk.net/pdf/HumanSecurityActof2007.pdf)...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2007 AHRC-OL-009-2007 An Open Letter to the Editor of The Nation by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Editor The Nation 44 Moo 10 Bang Na-Trat KM 4.5 Bang Na, Bangko...

The admission by the Chief of Police in Sri Lanka that the police, army and the army deserters are responsible for abductions and killings of civilians is a bold move. However, for the Asian Human Rig...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received credible information through its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, Ind...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt from a number of sources that U Aung Pe, the teacher who was jailed in Burma in 2005 for “illegal tuition”, has gone on hu...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the brutal torture of a 21 year-old man named ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is disappointed that over three months after a court in Thailand identified three army officers as responsible for the killing of 28 persons in A...