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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was allegedly tortured to death in the custody of the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1 December 2007. After t...

On January 16 the government gazette of Bangladesh announced that the interim president, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, signed into law the separation of the country’s subordinate judiciary from the ...

At 11:15pm on January 11 the president of Bangladesh, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, publicly announced a state of emergency and ordered a curfew in response to increasingly violent conflict paralysing the...

(Hong Kong, January 11, 2007) A new order by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh that the country’s judges be set free from government control has been cautiously welcomed by the Asian Human Rights ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 in Jessore district...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on January 7, 2008 that Akash, a human rights defender as well as journalist, has been facing several allegedly ...

The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that legal action has been taken against 12 lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court, including three top lawyers who are...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-323-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-320-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assump...

(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman from his house by the Detective Branch (DB)...

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary arrest; torture; fabricated charge; detention; deprivation of medical treatment; collapse of rule of law ——————————...

RE: UP-196-2006: BANGLADESH: Government’s failure to act has put life of attempted rape victim into great danger; UP-187-2006: BANGLADESH: Repeated police threats to the victim of an attempted r...

In addition to the general statement issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for International Human Rights Day on December 10, we are also making the brief comments below on the human righ...

Discontent over malfunctioning democracies and legal systems and the consequent setbacks these shortcomings cause for human rights and the rule of law, as well as aggressively expressed aspirations to...

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; negligence of duty; threat; intimidation; extortion; corruption; abuse of power; collapse of rule of law ———————R...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was informed that a man was allegedly beaten to death by the Nabiganj police in Habiganj district on 25 November 2006. After the police allegedly...