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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-323-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-320-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assump...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by gross negligence of the part of the High Court of Sindh on persons who are believed to be illegally detained in the milita...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 17-year-old student of the Rahula National School was brutally assaulted by a school health and physical training teache...

In a feature entitled Review Essay – Targeting the NGO sector, The Island December 22, 2006, I found the following reference. “The Chairman of the seminar was a lawyer who I knew as a memb...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the death of a man due to custodial negligence in the state of Wes...

CAMBODIA: Illegal expropriation of land; violation of Cambodia Land Law; violation of the right to housing and food; impunity ——————————R...

Your Excellency, On 18 December 2002, the UN General Assembly finally voted, by an overwhelming majority, the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Oth...

Koichiro Matsuura  Director-General United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation 7, place de Fontenoy  75352 Paris 07 SP  France Fax: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90 E-mail: bpi@unesco.or...

A newspaper item appeared yesterday in the Daily Mirror (December 21, 2006) reporting that a press release from your office stated: “…that the Human Rights Organization based in Hong Kong,...

STATEMENT- ABOLISHMENT OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION BILL On the 7th December 2006, the Supreme Court in Jakarta abolished the highly controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) B...

[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 Cambodian au...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you of the death of Charnchai Promthongchai (23) who had been under military custody for four days after being arrested by the ...

The newspapers reported a request by the Judicial Service Association (JSA) to “implement the death penalty to halt the loss of public confidence in the judiciary.”  This, according to th...

(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...

We refer your our earlier statement ‘SRI LANKA: Do newspapers like the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa contribute to the prevalence of endemic torture in Sri Lanka?’ and the doss...

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————...

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————–...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you of two more alleged disappearance cases from Sindh province in Pakistan which separately took place in July and August 2006. To dat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman from his house by the Detective Branch (DB)...