AHRC News

Several senior members of the opposition United National Party (UNP) have issued statements expressing concern over the resignation of two judges from the three member Judicial Service Commission and ...

The Government of Bangladesh has conducted a political crackdown of massive proportions, arresting over 10’000 persons between February 2nd and 5th, 2006. The police have randomly an arbitrarily arre...

North of Bangkok, the Angthong Provincial Court this morning found a farmer guilty of running an illegal community radio station. Sathien Janthorn was given a suspended jail term of six months and fin...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has recently secured a pardon for opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his colleague Cheam Channy, who were respectively given a jail sentence of 18 months for alleged def...

A serious controversy has resulted after two senior judges resigned from their positions in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), as they found that remaining in office would compromise their conscie...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has today learnt that two of the three members of the Judicial Service Commission of Sri Lanka have resigned their posts as continuing to hold them would be incompati...

On the occasion of the first anniversary of King Gyanendra’s royal coup, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the arrests of 600 persons engaged in peaceful demonstrations th...

On the first anniversary of the infamous royal coup in Nepal, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes with concern that the King continues to sacrifice the rights of the people of Nepal while c...

This February 1, 2006, the case of Ma Su Su Nwe will come before the Supreme Court of Burma. The court will be asked to decide whether or not to admit an appeal against Su Su Nwe’s imprisonment ...

Serious irregularities in judicial proceedings at the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Barrackpore, West Bengal speak to how India’s lower judiciary is being run by police. Accordin...

The Criminal Court in Bangkok on January 12 found that missing Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit had been abducted and that a police officer was among a group of persons, all suspected to ...

A strange notion prevails in Sri Lankan legal circles that presidential immunity extends even to constitutional violations. This is despite the fact that one of the grounds for the impeachment of a pr...

The promise made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to withdraw criminal defamation lawsuits against five human rights activists is welcomed by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The five acti...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further allegations of human rights violations in relation to the repression of demonstrations in Nepal’s deepening political, security and human...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is releasing a follow-up statement to complement the information that it provided in a statement yesterday concerning the arrests of over 100 political leaders...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the arrest of over 100 political leaders and human rights activists earlier today, January 19, 2006, in a serious development in the deter...

In its 2005 Accomplishment Report released on its official website, the government of the Philippines claims to have worked “to improve the operational effectiveness of law enforcement agencies&...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the additional and disproportionate restrictions imposed upon the people in Nepal by the newly enforced curfew and the total ban on peaceful demonstra...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2006 AP-001-2006 A Paper by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Institutional reform: An alternative approach to the resolution of Sri Lanka’s c...

This afternoon the Criminal Court in Bangkok will give its verdict on the guilt or innocence of five police charged in connection with the abduction and disappearance of human rights lawyer Somchai Ne...