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Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Jagaran Media Center (JMC) in Nepal regarding the custodial torture and death of Mr. Sanu Sunar, aged 46 year...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a man in his late forties was beaten by a policeman with a pole after he witnessed a group of officers assaulting handcuffed m...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Mr. J.C. Weliamuna Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Mr. J.C. Weliamuna forwarded...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission would like to report that the case of a three-wheeler taxi driver charged with carrying drugs – which he claims were found in the possession of ...

Basil Fernando For many decades now, international journalists have interpreted every story that has emerged from Sri Lanka to be some kind of war story. Some journalists have proposed that Sri Lankaâ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the body of a young man has been found three months after his arrest in the midst of a campaign for legal redress for hi...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that an investigation has not been conducted into the knocking over of a cyclist by police in a vehicle in November. The man was ba...

On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations on June 26, a bleak statement is to be made on the state of torture in Pakistan. More cases of t...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Common...

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

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Ahmar Masti Khan Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Ahmar Masti Khan forwarded by ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is informed about the illegal arrest and detention of Mr. Moirangthem Ashnikumar Singh, an environmentalist and Vice-President of Thanga Elfare...

BANGLADESH: AHRC urged Bangladesh’s Parliament to legislate pending Bill on criminalisation of torture     The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC ) has written to the Chairperson of...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC.   Bangladesh – – A woman speaks out against bad policing...

As the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is commemorated on the 26th June the Asian governments need to face up to their failure to honour their obligations to eliminate the use of to...

Since the last International Day in Support of Torture Victims, it is unfortunate that little concrete measures have been taken to put an end to the practice of police torture in Nepal. Even if there ...

Two years and five months have passed after the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, promised the nation that India will soon ratify the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhum...

Bangladesh ratified the UN Convention against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Punishment or Treatment (CAT) on 5 October 1998. Since then the country has kept its obligation under the ...

Human Rights Groups call on the Cambodian Government to Comply with the UN Torture Convention (25 June 2010, Phnom Penh), 26 June 2010 marks 23 years since the United Nations’ Convention against...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Sri Lanka–A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Mrs. ...