http://www.humanrights.asia http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.humanrights.asia/++resource++ahrc.theme.images/AHRCLogo.jpg http://www.humanrights.asia http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/images Wed, 26 May 2010 09:15:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/images http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA970917 AHRC UA970917 Sri Lanka 17 Septembet 1997 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL Three commissions created by the Sri Lankan government have established the disappearances of 16,742 people. While the claim that the number of disappearances are much larger needs to be further investigated, the immediate issue now is what conclusions can be drawn from the facts already established. It ... Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA970917 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA970925 AHRC UA970925 Cambodia 25 September 1997 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL Srun Vong Vannak, a member of the opposition Khmer Nation Party (KNP) and the party’s chief of security, was sentenced to 13 years in jail - a decision that took the judge only 10 minutes to reach. He was convicted of conspiracy to murder Second Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother-in-law, Kov Samuth, in ... Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA970925 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA971223 AHRC UA971223 Sri Lanka 23 December 1997 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expressed its concern over the killing of three prisoners and attacks on many others for more than an hour on 12 December 1997 in Kulutara Prison, which is located about 50 kilometres from the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The three who were killed and all other ... Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA971223 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA971230 Happy New Year greetings from Hong Kong! Thanks for responsing to our Urgent Appeals. We hope for the coming year you will continue the letter writings and other appropriate actions against Human Rights Violation. Attached, below, is the REPORT ON FACT FINDING MISSION TO WANNI by a group of church people to the Tamil area in Sri Lanka.. We hope you have reponded to the ... Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA971230 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980112 RE: Solidarity Action - SkySport Lanka (Ltd.), 12 Feb at German & Sri Lanka Consulates The Managing Director of SkySport Lanka (Ltd.), a German national, assaulted a production worker Miss M.G. Karunawathi with a packed parachute on 17th October 1997. She was issued a termination letter in English on 28th October 1997. The 12 February 1998 solidarity action coordinated ... Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980112 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980117 AHRC UA980117 Vatican 17 January 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL [PRESS RELEASE] The Excommunication of Fr. Tissa Balasuriya Is Lifted A Farce Ends as a Farce A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission The excommunication of Fr. Tissa Balasuriya in January 1997 was one of the biggest farces of the Vatican - perhaps ever in its not so glorious ... Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980117 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980126 AHRC UA980126 south Korea 26 January 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL SUH Joon-sik, 49, the director Sarangbang human rights group, has been charged for screening a film called Red Hunt duing a human rights film festival. The authorities have claimed that the screening \"constituted a violation of the National Security Law (NSL).\" The film documents the mass ... Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980126 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980206 AHRC UA980206 Philippines 6 February 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL Three lawyers have been harrassed for engaging in a case against the military implicated in the torture and murder of labour leader Rolando Olalia in 1986. The lawyers subject to harassment are Romeo T. Capulong, Marie Yuviengco and Rolando Rico Olalia of the Public Interest Law Centre. They are legal ... Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980206 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980219 Once again thank you for your support, solidarity and actions on the Sky Sport Lanka appeal. Unfortunately this matter is still a long way from resolution, but workers are continuing to fight on. This press release which we are about to issue should update you on the most recent developments. We are planning further demonstrations in Colombo, Sri Lanka and will try to organise a consumer ... Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980219 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980324 AHRC UA980324 south Korea 24 March 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL The Asian Human Rights Commisssion and MINKAHYUP- Human Rights Group express their deep concern on the continuing violations of the right to freedom of expression and opinion of Professor Lee Jang-hee. Professor Lee is from the Korea Foreign Language University and is on trial for publishing a children's book ... Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980324 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980325 AHRC UA980325 Thailand 25 March 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL On 28 February 1998 Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai decided that the laying of the Yadana gas pipeline by the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) should proceed as eighty percent of the construction is completed. The PTT project continues despite the fact that there was no transparent decision-making process; ... Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980325 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980418 AHRC UA980418 Pakistan 18 April 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL 16 April 98 the District management supported by police force demolished the All Pakistan Trade Union Office. The office is located at 114 – Gulberg Road, Industrial Area, Kashmir Road, Gulberg, Lahore. No warning was given by the police. Police aggressively attacked the workers and beaten them when they try to ... Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980418 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980508 Against Deadly Blasphemy Law AHRC UA980508 Pakistan 08 May 1998 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGENT APPEAL Bishop John Joseph fired a bullet into his head on 6 May 1998 in a court-house where a Catholic was sentenced to death on 27 April under the blasphemy law of Pakistan. The blasphemy law in Pakistan has been condemned throughout the world for many years, but there had been no change in ... Fri, 08 May 1998 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980508 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980515 FUNERAL OF BISHOP JOHN JOSEPH'S Lahore. 8th May 98 The funeral service of Bishop John Joseph, who committed suicide as a protest against the blasphemy laws in Pakistan on 6 May 1998 , was held in his native village Khushpur, District Faisalabad, Friday 8th May.. Though the government of Pakistan tried to minimize the effect of the Bishop's death by controlling the news, thousands of ... Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UA980515