Press Releases

(Hong Kong, October 13, 2008) We reproduce below the resolution passed unanimously at a general meeting of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka which met on the 11th October. This general meeting was held...

(Hong Kong, October 9, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today is urging the government of the Philippines to cause an investigation into the involuntary return of a domestic worker after...

(Hong Kong, October 7, 2008) We reproduce below a letter written by a senior lawyer, R.K.W. Goonersekere, who was a member of the delegation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka that met the Executive ...

(Hong Kong, September 28, 2008) Last night at 11:40 pm in Colombo, Sri Lanka a grenade was thrown inside the house of the leading lawyer J.C. Weliamuna, who is the Executive Director of Transparency I...

The Asian Human Rights Commission and its sister-organisation have nominated prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights defender, Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan, for the prestigious 2008 United Nations Human Right...

(Hong Kong, August 8, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today reiterates its concerns, which are also shared by the group of lawyers in Mindanao, of an urgent need for authorities to have...

Hong Kong: August 5, 2008 We are pleased that Prof. Wijesinhe, the Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process, has apologised for his statement dated 5th August, ‘Furthe...

A Press Release from the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: A further false report from the ‘Peace Secretariat’ We call upon all those who have received the aforementioned sta...

(Hong Kong, July 28, 2008) All the respondents from interviews conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) agreed that the delays in the trial of the Abadilla Five case highlighted the endem...

The Asian Human Rights Commission today wrote to the UN Special Rapporteur against Torture regarding a case of torture and illegal dentetion for seven days at the Moratuwa Police Station which also fi...

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH...

(Hong Kong, July 23, 2007) On March 11, 2008 Shanthigara Suresh Kumar of 21 A, Kandy Road, Balagolla, a teacher at Trinity College Kandy was illegally arrested and detained. Mr. Shanthigara has compla...

(Hong Kong, July 2, 2008) Random interviews conducted by a researcher for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have revealed that the plight of the Abadilla Five is a shared experience and common ...

(Hong Kong, June 27, 2008) Several human rights organisations held meetings and other activities to highlight the problem of torture and the sufferings of the torture victims in several locations in S...

(Hong Kong, June 23, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today wrote to the Sri Lankan authorities to provide protection to a family facing death threats to force them to withdraw their pet...

(Hong Kong, June 17, 2008) Marking their twelfth year in jail, the Abadilla Five writes pleading for “compassion and help” to a known Filipino Catholic priest and others expressing concern...

(Hong Kong, June 12, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has today launched an online petition to urge the prime minister of Cambodia to end land grabbing for development projects or other ...

(Hong Kong, June 12, 2008) Twelve years ago tomorrow, Colonel Rolando Abadilla, an influential police colonel during the regime of late President Ferdinand Marcos, was murdered. His murder resulted in...

(Hong Kong, May 26, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has launched today a campaign blog which documents cases involving various forms of arbitrary deprivation of life in the Philippines....

UN Vote Upholds Council Membership Standards on Rights (New York, May 21, 2008) – UN member states enforced the standards they established for the new Human Rights Council by not re-electing Sri Lank...