AHRC News

On September 18, a day before the military coup that overthrew the caretaker government in Thailand, one of the country’s human rights commissioners called for the authorities to pay serious att...

According to information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission, a senior police officer in Cambodia has arrested his son for allegedly shooting a rival student in the leg. Khou Sunnary, provin...

The Nation newspaper of November 22 has published a summary of the full reasons to be given by the military junta in Thailand for its September 19 takeover. According to the newspaper, the justificati...

Amnesty International (AI) in a statement issued on November 17, 2006 has stated that it has “confirmed to the government of Sri Lanka, in response to their request that it is not in a position ...

(An advanced study on human rights was held at the Asian Human Rights Commission premises from 6-11 November, 2006) A group of human rights activists met in Hong Kong for an advanced human rights stud...

In what appears to be a concerted attack on the entire human rights movement in the Philippines, army, civilian and police officials have all made scathing statements describing the work of rights gro...

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Freedom of expression in Cambodia has suffered another big blow. On November 10, Prime Minister Hun Sen said publicly that he “could send tanks to arrest” those who “had suggested a ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-284-2006 November 11, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  SRI LANKA:  Only international human rights monitoring can ensure credible inquiries into the ...

The AHRC notes with shock the further intensification of violence in Sri Lanka with the assassination of a Member of Parliament, Nadarajah Raviraj, belonging to the TNA and the killings of the civilia...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2006 AHRC-OL-064-2006 An Open Letter to the interim prime minister of Thailand by the Asian Human Rights Commission General Surayud Chulanont Interim Prime Minister ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned at the apparent lack of action by the prosecutor in two recent serious criminal cases in Cambodia. It wishes to remind the prosecutor that...

The interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, on November 7 told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Bangkok that his government is committed to “restoring the rule of...

We are writing to you today to express our outrage at the total failure of the authorities in Pakistan to investigate, prosecute, try and punish the perpetrators of the brutal revenge killing of a soc...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the agreement reached between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) political parties and the Maoist insurgents, which paves the way for an end to the decade...

The AHRC today to the editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper protesting against an unfair and biased report written by Sushita R. Fernando on a well known torture case.  The writer quotes the police of...

Ms. Jayanthi Dandeniya, the coordinator of Families of the Disappeared based at Raddoluwa, Seduwa, has announced the launching of a signature campaign by the victims of past disappearances to demand a...

It was reported in the Island newspaper on November 5th that President Rajapakse is expected to announce the possible appointment of an eight member commission of inquiry to investigate fifteen cases ...

On 8 November 2004, a 21-year-old philosophy student at the University of Karachi had just finished a radio broadcast on the famous poet Joan Elia when he was abducted from the downtown building. His ...

We are writing to you regarding the position you have taken, as reported the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 4, 2006, following the Philippines’ election on November 2, 2006, as a member o...