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ASIA: Protecting the Dike that Safeguards the Rule of Law

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to present the speech given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission at the Awards Ceremony for the Asian Human Rights Defender...

ASIA: Muneer Malik and Aitzaz Ahsan accept the AHRC’s Human Rights Defender Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ANM-003-2008 May 14, 2008 An Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: Muneer Malik and Aitzaz Ahsan accept the AHRC’s Human Rights Defender Award The As...

BANGLADESH: SC Lawyers boycott of Supreme Court to protest ruling obstructing granting of bail

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 ...

ASIA: ASEAN’s survival too depends on its cyclone response

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...

ASIA: South Asia has lost a great crusader of peace

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...

BANGLADESH: The lawyers begin their protest movement against emergency laws and the Supreme Court judgment on the issue of bail

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...

BANGLADESH: False charges against two persons in jail must be dropped

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...

BANGLADESH: Supreme Court abdicates its powers relating to bail on emergency law matters

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 ...

ASIA: Mr. Muneer A. Malik awarded 2008 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights

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...

BANGLADESH: Paikgachha police repeatedly intimidate a man to give up possession of land

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...

BANGLADESH: Journalist detained for revealing police malpractices

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...

BANGLADESH: Police allegedly mishandle a case

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...

BANGLADESH: Suspicious death of a man in police custody

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...

BANGLADESH: The government should investigate allegations of rights abuses mentioned in the US human rights report and establish a tradition of accountability instead of denial

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. ...

BANGLADESH: Dysfunctional criminal justice system needs urgent reforms

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...

BANGLADESH: Limitations of the participation to 50 persons only violates basic norms of democracy

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...

BANGLADESH: Torture by Rapid Action Battalion provokes protests

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...

ASIA: Two leading Pakistani lawyers to receive 3rd Asian Human Rights Defender Award

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...

BANGLADESH: End misuse of authority upon the police and by the police

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 ...

BANGLADESH: Man arrested over false charges dies in police custody

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 ...