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The Philippine National Police have a unique definition of the word “solved”. According to them, once a charge is filed against a suspect with the Office of the Prosecutor it is solved. Su...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the killings of two persons, one of whom was a minor, by officers of the Border Security Forces (BSF) operating along the Indo-Ban...

[Re: UA-221-2006: SRI LANKA:  Death in prison custody of illegally arrested man; second man seriously injured, UP-140-2006: SRI LANKA: Responsibility of prison officers for death of M.S.F. Perera and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the disappearance of two student activists and a peasant on June 26, 2006. The victims Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño ...

[Re: UA-90-2004: SRI LANKA: A boy brutally assaulted by his teachers and denied his right of education; UP-42-2004: SRI LANKA: Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers; UP–003–2006: SRI ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2006 AS-170-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission THAILAND: UN charge that killings “official policy” cannot be ignored On July 18 a senior U...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local partner regarding a man who was allegedly taken into custody by police officers and brutally tortured in Ke...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the fabricated charges of a man, owing to the line of work he is engaged in. Though the police have charged...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the guards of the state rubber plantation of Krek, in Pohnea Krek distict, Kompong Cham province and the police of the same prov...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a 19-year-old boy named Dhanuka Tisara by the Kalutara South police after his illegal ar...

[RE: UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case transferred… UP-77-2005: THAILAND: Department of Special Investigation fails ...

It is with great concern that we watch the rapid deterioration of – perhaps it would be more accurate to say the deliberate flaunting of – the rule of law and international norms in Western Asia.  ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of Mr. Sadiq Ali and how he was threatened by a superior officer when he approached the off...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a killing of a 14-year-old boy named Salman and the serious injuries of a 15-year-old boy named Asqhar by the Musl...

[RE: UA-176-2004: SRI LANKA: Another alleged police murder of a man by the Moratuwa police; UP-05-2005: SRI LANKA: Mt. Lavinia police’s apparent inaction to arrest/prosecute those responsible fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Nepalese partner organisation Advocacy Forum of the rape of a 17-year old girl by a member of the Nepalese Army. It is feare...

In a very strange move that will surprise anyone concerned with the global effort to eradicate disappearances and gross human rights violations, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), which...

On July 17 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an appeal on the alleged torture, armed robbery, illegal detention, and attempted rape and extortion of two persons in Saraburi, just northea...

THAILAND: Abduction; illegal detention; torture; robbery; attempted rape; threat to life; forced confession; attempted extortion; corruption; impunity; non-investigation; denial of redress —R...