AHRC News

The virtual removal of Chief Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chowdary by President Musharraf and the subsequent curtailing of his freedom of movement by putting him under house arrest has resulted in an  u...

The Cambodian government is to be congratulated on its ratification of the Optional Protocol and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) on 19 January 2007.  In doing do, th...

One year ago on March 12, a woman named Shahin Sultana Santa was beaten and tortured by police in Dhaka while she was waiting for her son outside the boy’s school near Road number 27 of the Dhanmondi...

You are aware that it has been 18 years this past February since over two hundred defenceless villagers were butchered allegedly by the Indonesian army in 1989. Since the atrocity human rights groups ...

The acting police chief of Thailand on Monday, 12 March 2007 made a verbal attack on . The Manager online newspaper quoted Pol. Gen. Seripisuth Themiyavet as saying that Angkhana should be taught to &...

Several international experts have, in the recent week, focused on a number of very crucial issues regarding the criminal justice system of Sri Lanka. They have commented on the need for the governmen...

President Musharaff removed the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, on March 9, 2007 after summoning him to the President’s Camp Office in the military premises. The President thereaft...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has requested the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to permit the construction of a small marker at the site of the 12 March 2004 abduction of human rights l...

You will be familiar with the case of Somchai Neelaphaijit, the human rights lawyer who was forcibly disappeared in Bangkok on the night of 12 March 2004 after he had publicly alleged that five of his...

The recent statement of the Inspector General of Police and his Deputy to the effect that policemen, soldiers and deserters are among those who have been investigated with regard to the allegations of...

On March 6, the Human Security Act of 2007, which defines acts of terrorism, was signed into law (the law is available on the internet at http://philippines.ahrchk.net/pdf/HumanSecurityActof2007.pdf)...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2007 AHRC-OL-009-2007 An Open Letter to the Editor of The Nation by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Editor The Nation 44 Moo 10 Bang Na-Trat KM 4.5 Bang Na, Bangko...

The admission by the Chief of Police in Sri Lanka that the police, army and the army deserters are responsible for abductions and killings of civilians is a bold move. However, for the Asian Human Rig...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to hear that the interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, on 23 February 2007 ordered the setting up of a “special commi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-040-2007 March 2, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Women fighting for their rights and groups fighting for electoral reforms express frustrati...

According to the Bangkok Post of March 2, the interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, has ordered that more police officers be sent to the south in response to persistent and gr...

Corruption in Sri Lanka is worse today than ever before. This fact is admitted by everyone, is seen to be more and more evident in the press, and even the government does not deny it. All governments ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-036-2007-R1 March 01, 2007 A reply by the Asian Human Rights Commission to a reaction concerning an earlier Statement Background: The AHRC received a reaction from Dukhinda Ja...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your intervention into the case of a human rights defender wrongly detained on fabricated charges by the police in Murshidabad distri...

The government of Pakistan continues to turn a blind eye to Islamic extremism throughout the country and is compromising the rule of law for religious fanaticism. In doing so, the country has once aga...