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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Kuruwita police assaulted a boy on the road and forcibly took him, with his brother,  into police custody and late...

Though the concept of human rights was now universally accepted, Manfred Nowak, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, today warned that ill t...

(This is the second of a series of statements that will be issued on this subject) The wide circulation of death threats through a letter from a group calling itself the Mahason Battalion last week ha...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-276-2008 October 27, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Black warrant for a young man is issued despite blood money being paid to the victim...

(This is the first of a series of statements that will be issued on this subject) The wide circulation of death threats through a letter from a group calling itself the Mahason Battalion last week has...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of threats and harassment made against a man by police officers since May 2008 in Sri Lanka. He would not pay money to t...

In May of this year a Jirga, an illegal tribal court, was held against a girl of 17 years in which she was declared as Kari (having had an illicit relationship with someone). This was done, according ...

Mr. Priyasath Dep – Acting Attorney General Attorney General’s Department Colombo 12 SRI LANKA Via Fax: +94 11 2 436 421 Hon. Acting Attorney General, Re: Request to Appeal against the Judgment of t...

Several months ago eight women, three of them minors, were buried alive in Balochistan, reportedly by the same men. Those responsible have close ties to the provincial government and to the police, an...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a police officer raped a woman on 7 October 2008 but due to tardy action by police authorities the officer was able...

We write to you in reference to the recent judgment delivered by the High Court judge of Negombo on 9th October 2008 acquitting the accused in the abovementioned case under the Convention Against Tort...

The success of the first phase of Chandrayann-1, undertaken on Tuesday, 21 October 2008, entitles India to claim membership in the elite club of countries that have proved their technological and fina...

Mr. W. Dayaratne, President, Bar Association of Sri Lanka Hulftsdorp Colombo 12 Sri Lanka Facsimile: 94 11 2448090 Email: wdaya@slt.lk Dear Mr. Dayaratne, By now the Bar Association must be aware of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local human rights organisation, the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that Vishal, a th...

The article: Election pledges a matter of By Jo Baker There will be little sleep tonight for the inmates of Adiala Jail’s death cells, but though the rooms in Pakistan’s notorious northern...

Yesterday an announcement was received by registrars of all courts and a number of human rights lawyers by a group that calls itself the Mahason Balakaya (Mahason Battalion). The notice threatens deat...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local sources that a man named Mr. Abdul Matin Shikdar was illegally arrested by the Kanaighat police on 28 Septemb...

In Sri Lanka the legal profession is very much a threatened profession. The recent grenade attack on September 27 on the residence of senior lawyer, Mr. J.C. Weliamuna, once again brought to the notic...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two cases regarding arbitrary arrest and detention of three men by police without orders from the court. A young man has been detain...