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[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to hear that the interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, on 23 February 2007 ordered the setting up of a “special commi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the alleged extra-judicial killing of a villag...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, India, MASUM that a family was brutally assaulted in the presence of police in Pa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, has been refus...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that as we worried, the police now allegedly fabricated charges against two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Pala...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-040-2007 March 2, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Women fighting for their rights and groups fighting for electoral reforms express frustrati...

According to the Bangkok Post of March 2, the interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, has ordered that more police officers be sent to the south in response to persistent and gr...

Corruption in Sri Lanka is worse today than ever before. This fact is admitted by everyone, is seen to be more and more evident in the press, and even the government does not deny it. All governments ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged arbitrary arrest and severe torture of a 16-year-old boy by police officers in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka. ...

BURMA: Lawyers’ group appeals for “reactivation” of bar council (Hong Kong, March 1, 2007) A lawyers’ group on Thursday made an appeal for the “reactivation” of the...

(Hong Kong, March 1, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Thursday sent a detailed report on the illegal and arbitrary detention of seven persons in Burma to a United Nations specialist g...

(Hong Kong, March 1, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Thursday launched a new webpage calling for an end to the emergency regulations in force across the country’s southernmost ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-036-2007-R1 March 01, 2007 A reply by the Asian Human Rights Commission to a reaction concerning an earlier Statement Background: The AHRC received a reaction from Dukhinda Ja...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your intervention into the case of a human rights defender wrongly detained on fabricated charges by the police in Murshidabad distri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement from the editorial board of Maubima, a Sunday newspaper. Some of their staff are alleged to have...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal torture and sexual abuse of Mr. Hartoyo, an NGO worker, and his partner Bobby while in dete...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Palash, Principal Programme Coo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that the Magistrate of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court has rejected the bail petition of Mr. Jafor Mollah on...

The government of Pakistan continues to turn a blind eye to Islamic extremism throughout the country and is compromising the rule of law for religious fanaticism. In doing so, the country has once aga...