AHRC News

The detention of Mr. Iftekhar Choudhry, the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, has now run into its 100th day and during his detention all the members of his family, including his school-going childre...

From all around Sri Lanka there are constant reports of widespread thieving in the country, particularly around suburban town centres. This has gone so far as to affect even the dressing habits of wom...

Although the Independence Day has passed all the people of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others alike are more worried than ever about the future of independence, meaning the future of dem...

On January 29, Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte was quoted by Davao Today, a local online news blog, saying he “does not care” about the report of Professor Philip Alston, special rapporte...

Three prominent lawyers who spearheaded the movement of lawyers, were again arrested and detained for a further month under the maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO). Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan, President...

In recent weeks, a couple of criminal cases involving police officers in Thailand have caught the media headlines there. In the first, three men were found shot dead in Ayutthaya Province, just north ...

The reports coming out of Pakistan state that a group of 100 ex-military personnel including former generals, admirals, air marshals and other retired officers are calling for the resignation of Presi...

Soeharto breathed his last in the quiet confines of Pertamina Hospital in South Jakarta in stark contrast to the hundreds of thousands that were compelled to breathe their last in agony in prisons, ca...

In March 2006, the legal counsel for two of the five prisoners known as the Abadilla Fivesubmitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol of the Internat...

A panel of five Supreme Court judges made the unanimous verdict of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto being guilty of premeditated murder of the prominent human rights defender Munir Thalib and was sentenc...

President Musharraf, while talking to a gathering of 800 Pakistanis in London, has asked the overseas Pakistanis to “put one, two or three punches” to Pakistani journalists who are destroy...

For many years land grabbing has claimed many victims among the poor and the weak in Cambodian society.  Land grabbers, mostly the rich and powerful, have scarcely resorted to the due process of law....

On February 4, Sri Lanka will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British colonial empire. There is hardly any mood to celebrate in the country, however. Beset by enormous econ...

When a farmer was found dead four days after he was allegedly abducted and disappeared on January 16, the police within a short period concluded their investigation effectively exonerating policemen f...

Today, January 23, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to announce that it has decided to grant its 3rd jointly to Muneer Malik, former President of the...

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) call for: The immediate unconditional release of all jurists arrested und...

A Joint Statement by the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, the Observatory for the Protection of Human...

As the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan is being treated by the military as a threat to national security 55 judges remain un-constitutionally retired out of which 13 are from the Supreme Cou...

January 21, 2008 I am writing this as a recipient of the Gwangju Human Rights Award to discharge an obligation I owe as a recipient of this award. One of the reasons for granting this award has been t...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) invites applications from qualified Indian doctors for full-time field work in a project to help the identification and treatment of tuberculosis patients in a...