AHRC News

A recent announcement of the Pakistan Army and its intelligence agency (ISI) stated that the Taliban are taking shelter in the Gilgit and Baltistan areas. They are a disputed part of Jammu & Kashm...

Basil Fernando Sri Lanka’s justice system, legal profession and media are all under peril says a report published this week by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute(I...

Basil Fernando 80 persons have died of dengue fever recently. Over 5,000 people are infected and there are fears that of further spread of the virus. The president has asked the authorities to pay mor...

Since the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) first reported on the torture of Mr. Fazal Abbas and his family by police earlier this month, details of escalating brutality have continued to become pu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-123-2009 May 29, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Hard-won ration cards for bereaved parents: a sign of change or pure political posturing? O...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-121-2009 May 27, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A few tests to measure the love for the country Mahinda Rajapakse, the president of Sri...

A member of parliament and representative of the opposition, Dayasiri Jayasekara, was assaulted by a group of supporters of the ruling party when he attempted to erect a facilitation board for the pre...

In the case of the love marriage of Ms. Kulsoom and Mr. Fazal Abbas the chief justice of Lahore high court has taken Sou Moto action and ordered the arrests of the police officers involved in the tort...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-117-2009 May 25, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Elation over victories and the appalling conditions of displaced Tamil persons UN Secre...

Expressing concern about the decrease in the number of civil disputes filed in the courts in the country, the Chief Justice of India, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, on Saturday said that the people prefe...

Following the killings of the entire LTTE leadership there is a strongly expressed feeling among Sri Lankans, within the country or outside, that their deaths particularly that of the leader, Prabakar...

In the case of the love marriage of Miss Kulsoom where seven women and girls of a family were arrested and tortured, one girl, Shazia, (16), remains missing after her abduction, allegedly by a member ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-113-2009 May 20, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: IDPs are citizens and censorship of their conditions must stop In a BBC Sinhala Service...

The Phnom Penh Post, a local English-language newspaper, has recently published the letter from a human rights advocate commenting on the legal action that Mu Sochua, a female Member of Parliament (MP...

Exactly what made both movements represented by these two leaders (The JVP and the LTTE) abandon the struggle for democracy and rule of law altogether and resort to violence reflects on the limitation...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-111-2009 May 19, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Wijeweera and Prabakaran – rebels within a dysfunctional democracy          Â...

Internally displaced persons are human beings and citizens. They are in a displaced situation not of their own choice but due the fact the government has failed to provide them the protection to enabl...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-110-2009 May 18, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Government must now end the operation of anti-terrorism laws The Sri Lankan government ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-109-2009 May 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Police meddle in Babli’s murder by producing her ‘third’ husband In th...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-107-2009 May 14, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The banality of evil and the Security Council intervention This week’s criticis...