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This week’s episode of Weekly Roundup covers recent cases from several countries. This week’s episode of the AHRC TV Weekly Roundup (please insert hyperlink here) covers recent cases from severa...

Blasphemy law has become a lethal weapon against the freedom of religion and faith and also the freedom of expression An Assistant Sub Inspector of Police murdered a detained man, from Shia sect of Is...

“Matters can go to such a head that the SHO (station house officer) would have to bring him (the detainee) chapattis and chicken curry to satisfy him.” Indeed, this is not an obiter dictum...

According to a letter written to the Bar Association by the Registrar ( click here to read  the letter ) of the Supreme Court, the President of Sri Lanka has, under Article 129(1) of the Constitution...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a horrifying incident of a Christian couple being burnt alive on charges of Blasphemy in Pakistan’s Punjab P...

by Avinash Pandey “Forceful sex on menopausal woman not rape-Delhi High Court” read a news item (title changed now though the URL remains the same) on one media group website. “Delhi High Court ...

(The following article was originally published in the Ethics In Action, a bi-monthly publication devoted to discussing how movements and leaderships claiming to uphold ethics and morality have failed...

A Statement from the Friday Forum  forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Sri Lanka’s foreign policy has recently been the target of much criticism and one can cite a litany of ...

Dear friends, The Advocacy Forum (AF) has informed the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that Mr. MadhoTajpuriya, a 57-year-old resident of Ward Number 3, Sijuwa Village Development Committee (VDC)...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the continuous persecution of human rights defenders in Gilgit and Baltistan, the occupied lands by Pa...

On 30th October 2014, the High Court of Colombo imposed the Death Sentence on eight persons found guilty of charges of drug trafficking. The allegations against them were that at the time of arrest by...

We have completed two years of publishing our groundbreaking initiative on torture, Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives. It was inaugurated in April 2012. Since then, thousands of people have rapid...

Image courtesy: aithiya.lk (Hong Kong, November 03, 2014)  Mayuri Inoka, the wife of a disappeared husband, Madushka Haris De Silva, was herself abducted on 1 November 2014. According to Mayuri, her...

A Statement from the UN Human Rights Committee forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) 1.         The Committee considered the fifth periodic report submitted by Sri Lanka (CCPR/...

A public petition for signatures for the constitutional reforms, by Ravaya forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Alliance of the Opposition should ensure the general public that the Co...

by Avinash Pandey Photo Courtesy M. Srinath, The Hindu No, the man pictured here has not entered the gutter as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much hyped Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or “clean In...

This week’s episode of Weekly Roundup covers the issue of disappearance. The episode begins with a recent development in Sri Lanka where posters are appearing that criticize the annual commemoration...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about systemic discrimination against tribals and other marginalised communities affected by cyclone Hudhud. The discrimination...

A Public Petition from the Citizens and Civil Society forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission 30th October 2014 An Open Letter Urging the President and the Leaders of Political Parties to E...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that freelance journalist Aung Kyaw Naing (aka Par Gyi) was killed while in custody of the Burmese military and that t...