Statement

The following is a speech by Basil Fernando, Director for Policy and Programme Development at the Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong. The speech was delivered at the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in Hong Kong on the 22 July 2012, as part of the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-treatment. Basic Argument for the Elimination […]

यह बासिल फर्नान्डो, निदेशक नीति एवं कार्यक्रम विकास, एशियन ह्योमन राइट्स कमीशन (एएचआरसी), हांगकांग द्वारा यातना के खिलाफ एशियाई सांसदों की बैठक में 22 जुलाई 2012 को दिए गए भाषण का मूल पाठ है. यह बैठक एशियन अलायंस अगेंस्ट टॉर्चर एंड इल-ट्रीटमेंट द्वारा बुलाई गयी है. पुलिसिया यातना के अंत के लिए बुनियादी तर्क पुलिसिया […]

아시아인권위원회 성명서 아시아: 경찰고문 근절을 위한 기본 논의   영문원본 아래는 홍콩에 있는 아시아인권위원회에서 정책 및 프로그램 개발 이사를 맡고 있는  바실 페르난도씨의 연설문입니다. 이 연설문은 고문 및 가혹행위 근절을 위한 아시아 연합이 주최한 아시아 의원회의 기간 중 2012년 7월 22일에 발표된 내용입니다. 경찰 고문 근절을 위한 기본 논의 경찰 고문은 무엇을 의미하는가? 만약 우리가 […]

On Sunday afternoon, former member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly Pushpa Bhusal delivered this speech as part of the deliberations in the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-treatment. Eight Parliamentarians from a number of Asian countries and several prominent human rights activists are participating in this four day meeting. By Pushpa Bhusal, Nepal […]

Speech by Jan Ole Haagensen, Director of International Department of Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark. The speech was delivered at the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in Hong Kong on the 21 July 2012 as part of the Asian Alliance Against Torture and Ill-treatment. Regional Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-Treatment […]

POUR PUBLICATION IMMEDIATE COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE AHRC-STM-148-2012-FR Communiqué de presse de la Commission asiatique des droits humains Nous partageons ci-dessous le discours suivant de Basil Fernando, directeur du développement des politiques et des programmes de la Commission asiatique des droits humains basée à Hong Kong. Ce discours fut prononcé le 22 juillet 2012, au cours […]

This morning, Mr. John Clancey, the chairperson of the Asian Legal Resource Centre, delivered this speech inaugurating the deliberation of the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-treatment. Eight Parliamentarians from a number of Asian countries and several prominent human rights activists are participating in this three day meeting. Introductions to the Meeting of […]

According to reports we have received, a group of criminals allegedly sponsored by a government minister, stoned the High Court and the Magistrate Court of Manner in a coordinated attack yesterday. A very tense situation is reported to be taking place in manner. According to information we have received, a mobile fishing hut was attacked […]

The attack on the Magistrate’s Court and the High Court in Mannar, allegedly instigated by a powerful government minister, has led to a resolve by law court judges and lawyers to boycott all courts today. The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes this decision as a very important step in the fight back against the serious […]

The AHRC releases a dossier on all relevant documents relating to the campaign to obtain release for Rizana Nafeek.  Rizana Nafeek, arrested in 2005 and sentenced to death by beheading in 2007 is still languishing in the Dawadami Prison in Saudi Arabia as the government of Sri Lanka has failed to take the necessary diplomatic steps to […]

The Presidential Office announced that the current chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) will be reappointed for three-year tenure. According to the office, the main reason for his reappointment is that since Mr. Hyun Byung-cheol has been appointed as NHRCK chairperson in 2009, the NHRCK has played a leading role in […]

Yesterday, July 5, there was an attempt to abduct a web journalist, Santha Wijesooriya, reported the BBC Sinhala Service. The incident is reported to have happened at Nugegoda.  Santha Wijesooriya noticed that he was being followed by a white van and took the precaution of changing his route in order to avoid the van. While […]

A prisoner, Ganeshan Nimalarubin, died in prison custody. Allegedly he was a former LTTEr who had been prison custody for a long time undergoing rehabilitation. His death in the prison has given rise to an important controversy. The BBC Sinhala Service reported yesterday (July 5) that the prisoner’s parents who are old and quite destitute […]

The Government of Bangladesh plans to immediately arrest members of human rights organisations and activists suspected of providing information for the Human Rights Watch Report “Bangladesh: Torture, Deaths of Jailed Mutiny Suspects”. The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned from reliable sources that there are discussions among some quarters in the Bangladesh government of arresting […]

Here is the statistics. Nothing less than 14004 farmers committed suicide in 2011 as per the data of the National Crime Records Bureau. That is more than 10.3 per cent of the total number of suicides in India through the year. Factoring the issues like huge underreporting of cases and the practice of never counting […]

The Union Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram, has said that he is “deeply sorry” for the death of any innocent person during the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) firing at Kotteguda panchayat of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state. Chidambaram qualified his apology however by saying that “… if any girl, or boy or man or […]

The killings of the Shiite Muslims continue un-abated in those areas under the control of the military and Para-Military forces where the banned Muslim organizations operate freely and without hindrance. In the latest killings on June 28 at least 13 pilgrims were martyred and several others injured in a bomb blast attack on Zaireen’s bus […]

Below is a letter written by Cambidian Ambassador for United Kingdom regarding an article written by Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth published by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). It is one of many articles that he has written in recent year. We publish it with a note from AHRC. A note from the AHRC It is […]

96 hours after the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) firing in Kotteguda panchayat of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state, the union government and the state government of Chhattisgarh are on defensive mode, finding excuses to justify the police action that killed 20 villagers, of which at least five are children. The firing occurred on 30 […]

According to reports the office of a well-known online daily newspaper based in Colombo, Sri Lanka is currently being raided. The raid is being conducted by dozens of security officers of the Ministry of Defense. According to a source quoted in the Sri Lanka Guardian, the security officers entered the offices showing a search warrant […]