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SRI LANKA: Tamil journalist gets “shameful” 20-year sentence on terrorism charges

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the “shameful” 20-year jail sentence which a Colombo high court passed today on journalist J.S. Tissainayagam on charges of supporting terrorism and inciting...

THAILAND: WGJP urges Thai government comprehensive action taken against enforced disappearances on International Day on Enforced Disappearance

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP) for the International Day on Enforced Disappearances. They urge Thai government comprehen...

SRI LANKA: Nationwide anger against lawless policing

“To make a real difference, some serious changes have to be made, both in the area of the constitution and on ways to correct the police as an institution. So long as the executive presidency in...

SRI LANKA: IBAHRI condemns death threat to prominent Sri Lankan human rights activist

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION the global voice of the legal profession [For immediate release: Thursday, 27 August 2009] TheInternational Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns th...

PAKISTAN: Afghan journalist shot dead in North western Pakistan

Reporters Without Borders is shocked and saddened to learn that Janullah Hashimzada, an Afghan journalist based in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, was killed today in an armed attack on the minibus in...

SRI LANKA: Criteria to measure human rights improvements

“Has protection of the minorities improved? What about those detained because they are suspected of having had links to the LTTE, without any evidence to that effect? What about the human rights...

PAKISTAN: Religion should promote peace, not violence

The recent attacks on Christian communities in the village of Korian in the Toba Tek Singh District of the state of Punjab on July 30 and in nearby Gojra on August 1 are of grave concern to Interfaith...

SRI LANKA: When the law becomes comic – Part 10

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When the Law becomes comic – Part 9

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 8

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Seven

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

PAKISTAN: Gojra and Pakistan’s identity

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Ms. Sherry Rehman, former federal minister of information, Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Six

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian forw...

AFGHANISTAN: Law Curbing Women’s Rights Takes Effect

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————...

PAKISTAN: Serious concerns over mass graves, extrajudicial killings, IDPs’ plight in Swat; HRCP

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human R...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 5

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

PAKISTAN: Government should take concrete action to amend or abolish the blasphemy laws within a year

As Pakistan marks Minorities Day, Amnesty International calls on the government to take meaningful action to protect religious minorities which have increasingly been the target of religiously-motivat...

PAKISTAN: Journalists physically attacked outside high court hearing in Lahore

Reporters Without Borders condemns the use of physical violence by lawyers against journalists that took place outside a on 6 August in which lawyers were being tried for an earlier case of violence a...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Four

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: Amnesty calls for detention camps to be unlocked

Posted: 10 August 2009 Equivalent of Bournemouth’s population live, eat and sleep in area size of Wembley Stadium Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent...