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The Supreme Court lawyers decided on Sunday (May 11, 2008) to boycott the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for two hours on Thursday, May 15, in protest against a series of verdicts, including ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has, like you, watched with great alarm at the spiralling effects of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma) and the apparent inability of the global community, desp...

Nirmila Deshpande, a well known peace crusader of India, died on May 1, 2008, after a long period of illness. She was 79-years-old and left behind so many followers who like her, wanted peace. From he...

The Supreme Court Bar Association of Bangladesh (SCBA) yesterday (April 24, 2008) endorsed a resolution to condemn the decision of the Supreme Court declaring that no court, including the Supreme Cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Bangladesh that a judge of a Special Tribunal for Women has ordered the detention of two persons in absence of a th...

The decision of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh made yesterday (April 23, 2008), to the effect that even the High Court, which consists of Supreme Court judges has no jurisdiction to entertain, or to ...

On January 23, 2008 the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announced that it was granting its 3rd Asian Human Rights Defender Award jointly to Mr. Muneer Malik, former Pres...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Paikgachha police had been harassing a family following a land dispute between two persons, which is beyond the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Durgapur police allegedly arbitrarily arrested a journalist, Mr. Robiul Islam on 28 March without any arrest wa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police authorities have allegedly received bribes for arbitrarily arresting people from a community involved in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was found dead during Batiaghata police custody on 7 March 2008 in Khulna district, Bangladesh. Police claime...

On 13 March, the Bangladesh Government’s spokespersons made their official comments on the human rights report published by the Department of State of the government of the United States of America. ...

A media report implies serious questions about the credibility of Bangladesh’s criminal justice system, including the investigation, prosecution and the judiciary, as well as the qualifications of th...

The present military backed caretaker government of Bangladesh has banned all political activities since the state of emergency was proclaimed on 11 January 2007, which supplemented the Emergency Powe...

Most of the national daily newspapers of Bangladesh, including the Daily Star and the Prothom Alo, published reports on 28 February 2008 stating that three personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB...

Today, January 23, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to announce that it has decided to grant its 3rd jointly to Muneer Malik, former President of the...

On 31 December 2007 an online news agency — BD News24.com — of Bangladesh published a report with the title ‘DMP commissioner blames failure of police on political pressure’. The report ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, Morshed Rana, died in police custody following his arrest on false charges on 28 October 2007. The police tried ...

The year 2007 will be remembered as a year in which brought out increasingly belligerent responses from ruling elites across Asia. It is certain that throughout the region more and more people are res...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Jahangir Alam Akash, a journalist and human rights defender based in Rajshahi city is once again threatened by the Rap...