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Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Wennappuwa police tortured a young man on October 8, 2008. Following his arrest the police did not inform his...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-052-2009  March 8, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Conditions for women are more precarious on International Women’s Day 2009 Mu...

Government and Tamil Tigers Should Allow Civilians to Flee Conflict Area (New York, March 5, 2009) – The Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should immedi...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is informed that Guria, a human rights organisation working in Uttar Pradesh against human trafficking is waiting for police assistance since the past four hou...

(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) In the fundamental rights case filed by two lawyers, Amitha Ariyaratne and H.R.D.G. Mendis, a husband and wife who are both Attorneys-at-Law, filed against the Inspector Gen...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Ahungalla police threatened and pressurized a family who lodged a complaint about a teacher’s assault o...

[RE: AHRC-HAU-001-2008: INDIA: UPDATE (India): Boy suffering from malnutrition dies; 13 others remain at serious risk] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported that a two-ye...

Bhagalpur, a district in Bihar state, has once again shot into notoriety for public violence. Yesterday, a mob lynched three persons at Ratanpur Bazar area of Bhagalpur. The victims of this violence b...

A fundamental rights petition has been filed by two lawyers against the Inspector General of Police and 12 other police officers. This petition will be argued before the Supreme Court today (5th March...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of Ms. Victory-hamy, who was illegally taken into custody, forced to sign a document, put h...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from BBC Sinhala Service. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from BBC Sinhala Service for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-048-2009  March 04, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Order an honour killing – become a minister The Asian Human Rights Commissi...

Several events which have taken place in recent weeks remind us of the deepening of the crises in the region. In Bangladesh, in The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) 55 officers, Seven civilians including two o...

I am writing to bring to your notice the remarks made by Ms. Ranjana Baghel, the Minister for Women and Child Development Department of Madhya Pradesh, who recently visited Burhanpur and Khandwa distr...

The reports that appeared yesterday in the Indian media quoting ‘informed sources’ that the Tamil Nadu state police has decided not to produce detainees in courts exposes the extent to whi...

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared two leading politicians of the country, Mr. Nawaz Sharif and Mr. Shahbaz Sharif, as ineligible to hold parliamentary positions. Mr. N...

Reporters Without Borders is extremely shocked by today’s arrest of N. Vithyatharan, the editor of Sudar Oli, a Colombo-based Tamil daily that is part of the Uthayan press group. He was forcibly ...

The world was reminded of the tragic paradoxes that take place daily in Pakistan, when a young journalist was kidnapped and executed last month while covering a march for peace. Mr. Musa Khankhel, jou...

Three prisoners were killed within the premises of the Negombo prison last week. One of the prisoners shot two others with a pistol he had in his possession. Thereafter, he climbed into a tree and ann...

Three prisoners were killed within the premises of the Negombo prison last week. One of the prisoners shot two others with a pistol he had in his possession. Thereafter, he climbed into a tree and ann...