AHRC News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2006 AHRC-OL-047-2006 An Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions by the Asian Human Rights Commission Philip Alston Special Rapporteur on ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the decision of the government of Kerala to initiate action on reported custodial deaths in police stations. However, while some may consider this to ...

Last week Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) published an editorial entitled the ‘UN should not ignore [the] Sri Lankan conflict’ (August 8, 2006).  The editorial wondered ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your determined involvement to end the uncontrolled use of torture by the police and other government security forces in Bangladesh, ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to request your serious attention to the non-independent lower judiciary of Bangladesh, and seek your active involvement in order to ov...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned but not surprised to hear that a senior police officer was threatened with death on 9 August 2006 when an anonymous caller to the police headquart...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-188-2006 August 10, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Court delays, rights violations and impunity give no cause for celebration of Supreme Court...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to draw the attention of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the rampant and unrestrained abuses of human rights th...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to write to you today on the historic occasion of the first police officer in Argentina being sentenced to jail last Friday, August 4 for having com...

This is the last in a series of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has felt compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council over the horrible human rights situation in B...

On August 4 a court in Argentina sentenced Julio Simon to 25 years in prison. Simon, who is now 65, was a police officer who in late 1978 was among those responsible for the abduction and killing of J...

This is the fourth of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council on the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and ...

This is the third of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council about the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, an...

A report on the proceedings of the trial – second day Hong Kong, August, 4, 2006 Today, August 4, Don Gayan Chandimal Amarakoon gave evidence before court stating that Sub-Inspector Suresh, the ...

On July 26, 2006 the UN Human Rights Committee published the view adopted by the Committee on July 14, regarding the communication filed by Sundara Arachchige Lalith Rajapakse holding that Sri Lanka h...

This is the second of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council concerning the horrible human rights situation in Banglade...

This is the first of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council concerning the horrible human rights situation in Banglades...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has reliable information regarding the violation of the basic human rights of psychiatric patients in the mental health wards in Colombo and elsewhere in Sri Lanka. ...

By Basil Fernando This paper has been prepared to encourage discussion on the limits of the developments on the impact of adult franchise as a factor contributing to the present crisis in Sri Lanka Bo...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to condemn the continuing spree of extra-judicial killings that are plaguing the Philippines at present. Estimates from various sources indicate that over ...