Press Releases

HONG KONG/PHILIPPINES: Complaints filed against a local newspaper and journalists over ‘super bug’ report (Hong Kong, April 8, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has filed sepa...

(Hong Kong, April 6, 2009) A Catholic priest, Fr. Roberto Reyes, who had been campaigning for the release of the Abadilla Five, has criticised as “wrong” the pardon and subsequent release ...

(Hong Kong, March 27, 2009)  Vincent P. Reyes smoked Philip Morris cigarettes for twenty years. He stopped and after a few years discovered he had lung cancer. He struggled against the disease from D...

Regional Groups Should Honor the Spirit of Council Membership Standards on Human Rights  (New York, March 25, 2009) — More than 30 human rights organizations from around the world today wrote ...

(Hong Kong, March 27, 2009) The AHRC is happy to announce that this book by one of the world’s best known authorities in the field of human rights is now available in our website by the kind permissi...

(Hong Kong, March 16, 2009) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has produced a new report in the latest volume of article 2 (volume 8, No. 1) on the abuse of police powers of arrest and detention for mone...

(Hong Kong, March 10, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Tuesday launched a new Burmese-language human rights web blog.  The AHRC has set up the blog to cover a range of current affai...

(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) Two rights lawyers in Burma who were last year imprisoned for contempt of court were both released this morning after serving their full sentences.  Supreme Court advocates...

(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) In the fundamental rights case filed by two lawyers, Amitha Ariyaratne and H.R.D.G. Mendis, a husband and wife who are both Attorneys-at-Law, filed against the Inspector Gen...

(Hong Kong, March 3, 2009) In response to a newspaper report that Filipinos are reportedly more liable to contract community-based infectious diseases (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus or ...

(Hong Kong, February 26, 2009) After his case was exposed it has been learned that claims for payment of accident compensation are possible.  When Tibio Melvin Delos Reyes, a 20-year-old Filipino wor...

(Hong Kong, February 19, 2009) Member of Parliament, Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury has filed a notice yesterday to the parliament, proposing a Private Member Bill to incorporate the United Nations Conve...

(Hong Kong, February 18, 2009) A twenty-year-old Filipino waiter, who suffered second degree burns to his face and chest caught fire in a work related accident has now sought compensation for the inju...

The interview can be viewed on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7lza-rVu9k On February 5, 2009, Fr. Frank Nally, former Columban priest missionary in the Phillippines and human Rights acti...

Hong Kong, January 31, 2009 SRI LANKA: Human rights lawyer’s office burnt down The office of Amitha Ariyaratne, Attorney-at-Law, situated in front of his residence at No. 53, Temple Road, Horapa...

Mr. Amitha Ariyaratne, Attorney-at-Law, was threatened three times with death on 27, January 2009 at the Negombo Police Station by some police officers. He was visiting the police station for an offic...

PHILIPPINES: former action star talks about gay rights online (Hong Kong, January 23, 2009) Many years ago he was famous as Rustom Padilla.  He was one of a brood of actor brothers, famous in his own...

(Hong Kong, January 16, 2009) You may view this YouTube presentation at: Part 1: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=K86K94F5ywQ  Part 2: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=QRE5Og5_LiY  Part 3: http://hk.yo...

Hong Kong, January 9, 2009 A series of five YouTube presentations in the Sinhala language is now available on the issue of the executive presidency – the collapse of . Mr. Basil Fernando the director...

(Manila, January 8, 2009) To renew their demands to have the policemen responsible for torturing their loved ones prosecuted at once, the families of the Abadilla Five held a protest at two government...