Press Releases

(Manila, January 7, 2009) Nearly thirteen years after the Abadilla Five’s arrest and subsequent detention in June 1996, their families, the wives, children, mother and a grandmother, have yet to...

(Manila, January 6, 2009) They were either children or were not born at the time when their loved ones, known as the Abadilla Five, were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured but the calls to ha...

Hong Kong, December 30, 2008  The AHRC wrote today to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, calling for diplomatic engagement with all the members of the United Nations and th...

(Hong Kong, December 22, 2008) The honourable Chief Justice of the Sindh high court will take the sou moto application of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) tomorrow, December 23, 2008, regardin...

(Hong Kong, December 22, 2007) Four separate presentations on several pressing issues have been presented by the Asian Human Rights Commission on YouTube. Contempt of court in Burma and the illegal ju...

(Hong Kong, December 18, 2008) The Supreme Court lawyers U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein were convicted by a Burmese court for contempt of court when they withdrew their representation on behalf t...

(Hong Kong, December 17, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission annual publication of the Human Rights Report for 2008 on Eleven Asian countries is . The report (314 pages) covers the human rights si...

(Hong Kong, December 9, 2008) The needless deaths of 13 farmers, who held demonstrations demanding land reform, in Mendiola in Manila two decades ago cast a long shadow on the land reform struggles of...

(Hong Kong, December 11, 2008) A presidential advisor writes to the president regarding attacks on human rights lawyers. Mr. Vasudewa Nanayakkara, a long-standing politician, a former Member of Parlia...

(Hong Kong, December 7, 2008) The place where they reside and make subsistence living may be different but the urban poor and the farmers share the same struggle: to own a plot of land, build a decent...

(Hong Kong, December 10, 2008) The message of the Asian Human Rights Commission on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is now available at YouTube. The director of the AH...

Manila, December 6, 2008 — To once again draw attention to their plight, farmers from the Arroyos continued their hunger strike at Malacanang Palace on December 5. A letter dated December 5, and...

(Hong Kong, December 8, 2008) “There is no getting away from the fact that despite 60 years being passed after the UDHR, the actual enjoyment of human rights in most countries of Asia is even mu...

Manila, December 5, 2008—After three days of running and hunger strike, the effect had unfortunately been physically costly to some of the farmers. One of the eight farmers on hunger strike, 22-year-...

(Hong Kong, December 5, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Friday launched a new web page on the case of two lawyers in Burma who were sentenced in November to four months’ imprisonmen...

Manila, December 4, 2008 — On its third day of run, farmers from two of the country’s influential landlords — the Arroyos and the Yulos — sought urgent intervention from member...

Manila, December 3, 2008 — A Filipino priest, known in the Philippines as the “running priest”, held a solo protest inside the Philippine Congress in Quezon City on December 2 callin...

(Manila, December 2, 2008) To expose the government’s failure to make good on its promises of land distribution, farmers from the Arroyo lands in Negros Occidental and others commenced ten days ...

BURMA: Transfers to remote jails are “death sentences”: AHRC (Hong Kong, November 19, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Wednesday condemned the sending of wrongly convicted...

(Hong Kong, November 7, 2008) A man who is under arrest at one of the police stations in Bangladesh was posed with a riddle by the Officer-in-Charge of the station. Here is the riddle: When arresting ...