Statement

Mr. Ashok Kumar Bishwas, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Jhalokathi District, has reportedly offered a proposal to the family of college student Limon Hossain, who, courtesy the point blank shooting by Rapid Actions Battalion (RAB) personnel, is a disabled man today. According to a report, published by the Prothom Alo, a vernacular national daily, the DC has […]

  The statement by Mr. L. K. Advani, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the country’s global image is at an all-time low is partially correct. It is reflected in manifold forms, including in the treatment Indians receive when they present their passport at the immigration counters in foreign nations and in […]

After a series of attacks on the judiciary the Mahinda Rajapaksa government is now reported to be engaged in preparing papers for the impeachment of the Chief Justice (CJ). While the accusation against the CJ is not known the determination of the government to impeach her has been highly publicised. The state media have been […]

The cabinet reshuffle in India has concluded. New Delhi has witnessed the usual exit and entry of old and new faces. While speculating, reporting and allegedly analysing the event, the Indian media liberally used words like “new blood”, “team Manmohan” and “fresh faces.” These terms wrongly suggested that something new is introduced into an alleged […]

The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime has resorted to the ugliest attack in Sri Lankan judicial history on the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice this week by using the state media as a slander machine and through employing the state media to introduce deliberately manufactured slanderous letters to the parliament solely with the purpose of abusing […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government is now engaged in a ruthless attack on the Chief Justice, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the independence of the judiciary in general. The immediate reason for the attacks is the Supreme Court decision against the Divineguma Bill and the JSC decision to take disciplinary action against a judicial officer alleged […]

The youth of Pakistan have found a new leader to follow, one that has inspired, not on the youth of the country but the adults as well The Malala incident in Pakistan has given a powerful voice to the people to come out bravely against Muslim extremism. The breaking of the silence in Pakistan was […]

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Odhikar The investigation into the attack upon minorities, its process and outcome, and subsequent handling of the event by the Government Bangladesh is highly questionable. The incident in question is the arson of properties of the minority communities, particularly of the Buddhists and Hindus in Cox’s […]

If a police officer decides to make money illegally, what would the officer do? There are many ways the officer could think of, including but not limited to, seeking bribes, illegally registering and compromising cases, or collecting protection money from people and businesses. In all of this, irrespective of the mode, the officer is selling […]

Five persons including four senior journalists of the Daily Amar Desh, a national newspaper, are under imminent threat of detention and subsequent torture by the state agents. The country’s police fabricated a criminal case (No. 2) against four senior journalists namely Assistant Editor Mr. Sanjib Chowdhury, Crime Reporter Mr. Alauddin Arif, Chief Editor Mr. Seyed […]

The Supreme Court (SC) today ordered the government to take legal action against former army chief General Aslam Beg and the former director general of the Inter Intelligence Service (ISI) Lt-Gen (retired) Asad Durrani for distributing money during the elections of 1990 among some politicians in order to rig the elections. A three-judge bench comprising […]

This week and the last one have witnessed an overflowing of violence in India. It manifested in manifold shapes, colours, and intensity: permeating right from the gory incidents of rapes reported in the media to the sensational allegations of corruptions against the most powerful players in the country, the shameless circus-dog denials of political leadership, […]

While the daughter of the chief minister of Punjab remains at large her husband, Ali Imran Yousuf, has been arrested in an effort to show that the chief minister is willing to respect the rule of law. The entire provincial machinery is attempting to influence the witnesses and manipulate the case in favour of chief […]

The proposed Code of Criminal Procedure (Special Provisions Act) will lead to an increase in the abuse of power, extortion, torture and custodial deaths. A bill placed before parliament as the Code of Criminal Procedure (Special Provisions Act) of 2012 is dangerous in the present context and is very much likely to complicate the already […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission is shocked to learn that a regional police commander in Thailand has recently given a substantial financial gift to five police officers convicted of murdering a teenager, Kiettisak Thitboonkrong, during the 2004 “war on drugs”. On 25 September 2012, Pol. Lt. Gen. Sompong Khongpetchsak, the Police Region 4 commander, presented […]

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Odhikar The entire governmental machinery of Bangladesh, with its retinue of law-enforcement units, intelligence agencies, and security forces, have totally and abysmally failed to protect minority communities in the South Eastern region of the country.  A large number of monasteries, temples, houses and establishments of the […]

A malnourished Dalit girl in Aiyer Tolla of Varansi District, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Having to repeat oneself year after year and keeping hope alive against all odds, what can be more melancholic than this? Only the fact that one does it counting the bodies of those who perished because of our failure in keeping […]

English ආසියානු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම පසුගිය ඔක්තෝම්බර් 07 දින ශාන්ත තෝමස් විද්යාරලයේ ක්රීnඩාපිටිය ආසන්නයේ දී සිදු වූ අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂමේ ලේඛම් වරයා පැහැර ගෙන යෑමට තැත් කිරීමේ උත්සාහය සාර්ථක වූයේනම් ඔහුට සිදු වියහැකිව තිබුනේ කුමක්ද යන්න උපකල්පනය කිරීම ඉතාම අසීරු වනු ඇත. කෙසේ වුවත් මීට පෙර සිදු වූ පැහැරගැනීම් සමඟ සංසන්දනය කිරීමේදී ඔහුට පහත ආකාරයේ […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the brutal and cowardly attack on the brilliant 14-year-old student, Malala Yousufzai. The Talibani attackers stopped the school van in which she was traveling and asked the other students to identify her. They then sprayed bullets at her in an attempt to kill her for promoting education […]

The former Railway Minister of Bangladesh, Mr. Suranjit Sengupta, has claimed that he was proven “clean and innocent in the investigation” of an alleged act of corruption. The driver of the former minister’s assistant personal secretary, exposed the corruption accused against Sengupta when the driver instead of driving his car to the minister’s house took […]