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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Kandy Police Station has failed to take proper and prompt action into the complaint involving the sexual abuse ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim has suffered hearing loss after having been severely assaulted by Excise Officers on 17 May 2008. Further...

FMM, independent media targets of slander campaign, incitement to violence by Defence Ministry SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo 5 June 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka – The Free Media Movemen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a boy, who had been previously beaten by his teacher, was taken to a hospital for his injuries after having been beaten on...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man has been continuously detained without any charge after having been illegally arrested on 31 May 2008. The victim...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has collected details of detention and torture centres in Pakistan, where missing persons are held for long periods of time in order to force them to confess t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat, concerning the case of 27 Dalit families...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-156-2008 June 4, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: UN Human Rights experts should intervene to stop en massearbitrary arrest The New A...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two brothers were arbitrarily arrested on suspicion of being terrorists without any concrete evidence in the middle...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that five men had been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by the Kataragama police on 1 May 2008. One of the victims was admitted ...

Mr. Abdul Wahab Baloch, a peace activist and Baloch nationalist, who was missing since his arrest on May 28, 2008, was released from the custody of the Secret Intelligence Agency of the Pakistan army ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a two-year-old boy, whom we reported on May 29 to be suffering severe malnutrition has died. His death came jus...

IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community ALERT – SRI LANKA 2 June 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 31 May 200...

IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community ALERT – SRI LANKA 2 June 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 30 May 200...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a torture victim attempted to commit suicide due to the humiliation he suffered after being tortured by policemen a...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the people of Nepal on its transition into a Secular, Federal Democratic Republic. The declaration made on 28 May 2008 by the Constituent Assembl...

We wish to share with you the following speech of Mr. Muneer Malik, delivered on his acceptance of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. He received the human rights award on May 18, 2008 on the occasio...

National Peace Council of Sri Lanka 12/14 Purana Vihara Road Colombo 6 Tel:  2818344, 2854127, 2819064 Tel/Fax:2819064 E Mail:  npc@sltnet.lk Internet:  www.peace-srilanka.org 30.05.08 Media Rele...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man was arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Kekirawa police while in their custody on 2 May 2008. The ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a police sergeant, who was found by the court to have violated a torture victim’s fundamental rights and is still...