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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Md. Aminul Islam Shahin was tortured by the police personnel from the Gournadi police station in the Barisal di...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand, (see UAC-005-2008). It ha...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that around three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested en masse by the Bangladesh law-enforcement in Dhaka on the eve of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The ar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details from the Yoma-3 News Service (Thailand) and other sources of the alleged death in police custody of another young man in Bur...

I refer to the complaint made by Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi [please refer to your case number 5840/24/97-98] of a well planned assassination attempt on his life. The attempt was on 18.02.1998. He has given ...

The legal system in Cambodia is today rife with malicious criminal lawsuits by the rich and powerful against apparently innocent persons. The suits have variously related to political parties’ m...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was allegedly tortured to death in the custody of the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1 December 2007. After t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a blockade of food supplies set up by the Cambodian authorities to force 180 families of disabled war veterans, widows and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by nine officers of the Muncipal Administrative Police Unit (SA...

[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 many of the Cambodian a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged police assault of a 57-year-old woman in East Denpasar, Indonesia after she was arrested on 3 January ...

According to an article in the January 20 edition of the Bangkok Post, the new director of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has committed himself to cleaning up the department, removing i...

January 23, 2007 AHRC-OL-004-2007 An Open Letter to the chief of the Philippine National Police by the Asian Human Rights Commission General Oscar Calderon Chief Philippine National Police (PNP) Camp ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of human rights activists associated with Guria, that the case is dragging on in the court in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2...

Why is it that judges in Pakistan seem completely unable to apply the fundamental legal principle of habeas corpus and order police or military officers to produce detained or arrested persons in cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the failure to conduct a proper postmortem examination by the police before they buried a female corpse recove...

Dear friends, The military junta that has now controlled government in Thailand for four months has in recent weeks made clear that martial law was never partially lifted at the end of November, as it...