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SRI LANKA: India’s Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2012 is worthy of emulation 

Safeguarding judicial independence from attacks by the government came to light due to the threats alleged to have been made by Minister of Industries and commerce, Rishard Badurdeen and the attacks o...

PAKISTAN: Once again, men in military uniforms kill Shia Muslims 

Men in uniforms of the armed forces went on a rampage of sectarian violence attacking and killing Shia Muslims who make up the second largest Muslim sect after the Sunnis. According to the reports fro...

SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been in custody without being charged for three years 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Mahalingam Sasikumar (34) of Maratha Madhu, Chettikulam in Mannar District has been in jail for more than three...

[Filipino] PHILIPPINES: Public apology hiling mula sa brodkaster na nagsabing ‘hinayupak’ ang mga maralita 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter written in Filipino from the Urban Poor Associates (UPA) to Miguel “Mike” Castro Enriquez,...

SRI LANKA: An interesting YouTube discussion on torture in the country

(Hong Kong, August 17, 2012) Right to Life in collaboration with the Asian Human Rights Commission has created a video discussion between a Sri Lankan police officer and Mr. Basil Fernando of the AHRC...

PAKISTAN: Government must provide protection to the rights of minorities, their lives and properties 

The representatives of Hyderabad Hindu Panchiat, Young Hindu Association,  and other Hindu Community organizations and members of civil society and human rights organizations including (Sindh Democra...

NEPAL: Attorney General stresses the need to reform police investigation process 

On 8 August, the Nepali newspaper The Himalayan Times reported from Myagdi district that the incumbent Attorney General of Nepal, Mukti Pradhan had denounced the current police investigation process...

PAKISTAN: Forced conversions and religious intolerance forcing Hindus to abandon the country 

By Altaf Hussain The mass exodus of minority Hindus from Pakistan particularly from Sindh, has stirred the lethargic and ignorant government authorities who otherwise had kept mum over the security co...

INDIA: The Independence Day speech they would never deliver! 

There is nothing amiss here. The nation is in celebratory mode and it is celebrating with aplomb. The national flag, the tricolour, is everywhere: being waved in the hands of children, tattooed on the...

SRI LANKA: Doctor’s negligence results in the death of a young girl in Hambantota 

Dear friends, Ms. K K Neesha Chaturangi (17) of Ambalantota, Baragama, Arawanamulla in Hambantota District was a student of a Ambalantota Kuda Bolana Pajjaseeha Maha Vidyalaya. On 2 June 2012 she ate ...

INDIA: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar — the greatest Indian 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the diplomatic titbits blogspot, written by Mr. Ramesh Chander (IFS). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———&#...

PHILIPPINES: Supreme Court held the State of Emergency in Sulu unconstitutional 

The Free Cocoy Tulawie Movement is happy to announce the Decision of the Supreme Court dated July 3, 2012 which GRANTED the Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition filed by Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie...

INDIA: True value of independence 

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates India and the people of this great country on the eve of the 65th anniversary of independence. Occasions like this are opportunity for the countr...

SRI LANKA: An innocent man has been detained for almost three years on false charges of terrorism 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Alexander Thayaparan was abducted by carders of the LTTE in 1991 and was only released after he lost his leg. A...

PAKISTAN: Death in waiting 

In a republic obsessed with nuclear arsenal, citizenry has nothing much to celebrate the country’s 65th anniversary of independence. Nafees Mohammad Pakistan is said to have been aggressively pursui...

INDIA: Reform dishonesty first 

The government is again planning to change the criminal justice mainframe of the country. Again, the ruse is that of justice to the people and national security. The proposal is open; its true purpose...

SRI LANKA: An innocent man was illegally arrested, tortured and forced to pay money to expedite his release 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that when Mr. Dadallage Ajith Kusumsiri (38) of No.113/1, ‘Sriya Niwasa’, Kandakatiya Aluth Para, Ratmalwala...

SRI LANKA: Man was severely tortured and falsely accused by the Pamunuwa Police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Don Prasanna Dilrukshana Aquinas Mallawaarachchi was falsely accused of having an extramarital affair and sever...

SRI LANKA: Truth and myth 

Yet another prisoner died whilst in custody at Vavuniya prison in Sri Lanka this week. Sadly the death happened in the same day when a meeting organised by the Secretary Defence and Minister of Extern...

PAKISTAN: The Judicial Commission must probe the allegations against the Chief Justice and his son for the misuse of his office 

The parliamentarians and leaders of the lawyer’s movement, which restored the judiciary, have come out with the strong criticism against the Supreme Court and particularly against the Chief Just...