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BANGLADESH/PHILIPPINES: Why Filipinos must protest the attack on FMA Razzak? 

Bangladeshi national FMA Razzak is the President of the Human Rights Development Centre (HRDC) and Editor of the Pakkhik Gonomichhil in Paikgachha of Khulna district, Bangladesh. On April 29, 2011, Ra...

PAKISTAN: Agencies’ role in JSMM activists’ murder must be probed: HRCP

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

WORLD: Citizens form committee to fight for justice, Muslims offer special prayer for FMA Razzak’s safety – none arrested yet!

(Hong Kong, May 6, 2011) The local citizens of Paikgachha have formed a committee today naming it “Committee to Fight for Justice and Protection of Human Rights Defender and Journalist Razzak...

WORLD: An appeal for assistance for FMA Razzak

WORLD: An appeal for assistance for FMA Razzak (Hong Kong, May 6, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched an appeal for financial support for medical, legal and security expenses for huma...

PAKISTAN: The peasant women were shot and injured by the gangsters of speaker of a provincial assembly; police files charges against the villagers

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the son of the provincial speaker of the Punjab assembly and his henchmen attacked a village and fired upon the w...

SRI LANKA: Fifteen-year-old child arrested by Rambadagalle Police on baseless suspicion

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Janith Chandeera a 15 year old and a year 10 student of Kavisigamuwa Sri Gamini Maha Vidyalaya was illegally arre...

PAKISTAN: Child slavery — 20,000 children with small heads are run by the shrines for beggary 

Malik Ayub Sumbal  No one knows about the reality and sad saga of these greenish veiled and shaved head individuals carried by their masters with a chain about their necks to get the sympathies of th...

BANGLADESH: People rally further demanding the arrest of army Major Mustafizur and the attackers

(Hong Kong, May 5, 2011) The inhabitants of Paikgachha have again held a rally demanding the arrest of Mustafizur Rahman Bokul, a major in the Bangladesh army, and his aides for gouging the eyes of hu...

SRI LANKA: Complainant and two women tortured in public by the Poddala Police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. D Weeragunarathna Sahabandu, Ms. K A Sarani and Ms. M L Tharanga of Andurathwila, Wawulugala Kanda, Poddala, in...

SRI LANKA: Innocent man illegally arrested, detained and tortured by Anamaduwa Police

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Samayakkarage Ravi Nishantha (29) of No: 07, Mundakkuliya, Anamaduwa in the Puttalam district was illegally a...

BANGLADESH: Land grabber and eye gouger Major Mustafizur is still serving with the Bangladesh army 

Basil Fernando The attack on FMA Razzak led by Major Mustafizur of the Bangladesh military (BANGLADESH: Army officer’s family gouges eyes and torture after kidnapping Human Rights Defender FMA Razza...

INDIA/SOUTH KOREA: Revoke the illegal clearance to the POSCO project 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity (PPS-Delhi) and other civil society groups. Asian Human ...

BANGLADESH: Men and women take to streets demanding the arrest of eye-gouger Major Mustafizur and his aides

(Hong Kong, May 4, 2011) Hundreds of men, women and children at Paikgachha have taken to streets demanding arrest of eye-gouger Mustafizur Rahman Bokul, a major in the Bangladesh army, and his aides f...

BANGLADESH: AHRC welcomes Health Minister’s visit to human rights defender FMA Razzak at hospital

(Hong Kong, May 4, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the visit of the Minister for Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh, Prof. AFM Ruhul Haque MP, to human rights defender Mr. FMA Ra...

WORLD: A special appeal to all human rights organizations requesting urgent protection and intervention for a Bangladeshi human rights defender suffering from gouged eyes, brutality and a lack of medical treatment 

The Asian Human Rights Commission calls upon all human rights organizations of the world to respond to a brutal attack on a well-known human rights defender in Bangladesh, FMA Razzak and his brother b...

WORLD: AHRC launches campaign site for the protection of human rights defender FMA Razzak

(Hong Kong, May 3, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched a new campaign website calling for the protection of human rights defender Mr. FMA Razzak, as well as calling for holding genuin...

PAKISTAN: Extra Judicial killings in Balochistan — 25 journalists, writers, human rights defenders, students and activists were killed during the first four months of this year 

24 activists were among those who were extra judicially killed after their abduction by uniformed and plain clothe persons The extra judicial killings of the journalists, writers, human rights defende...

PAKISTAN: The growing situation of the Religious Intolerance in Gujranwala 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Centre for Legal Aid assistance and settlement (CLAAS). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- FOR I...

PAKISTAN: The 125th May Day unleashes revolutionary vigor in the emerging labour movement 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from National Trade Union Federation, Pakistan, written by Mr. Nasir Mansoo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

BANGLADESH: Army officer’s family gouges eyes and torture after kidnapping Human Rights Defender FMA Razzak, who is going to die without treatment due to pressures from armed forces and intelligence agencies

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that human rights defender FMA Razzak is going to die without proper medical treatment due to tremendous pressures from the officials...