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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding alleged illegal arrest and torture of a 21-year old man whose spine was broken as a result of the abuse. Mr....
A Press Release from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) A top editor of the Jaffna-based ‘Uthayan’ newspaper has been brutally att...
A collection of photos from activists in Sri Lanka published by the Asian Human Rights Commission The AHRC has received the following photos from the exhumation of disappeared human rights activist Mr...
Mon, 25/07/2011 – 10:23 | by prachatai Elizabeth Fitzgerald According to the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court in relation to the case of Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul, the answer to this ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Balawaristan National Front (BNF) to the President of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Co...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the persecution and intimidation of a human rights defender and filing of fake charges of robbery against hi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a woman, Ms. Harkali Pun, by two policewomen following order from a higher-ranking officer in...
Dear friends, Mr. Madasamy Vishwanadan (42), was the principal at Rosella Tamil Maha Vidiyalaya. When his mother died in 2008 he informed his brother who lived in Kilinochchi but the man failed to a...
Mr. Pattini Razeek, a well known human rights activist and a member of the executive committee of Forum Asia disappeared on February 11, 2010, yesterday (July 28) his body was exhumed before the Valac...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Pakistan Peace Coalition. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...
Dear friends, Mr. Sathiyaseelan Jegadishan (24) of Sogana Upper Division, Pussellawa in the Nuwara Eliya District was illegally arrested by officers of the Pussellawa Police Station on 2 June 2010. ...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following video from YouTube user Rohanlanka regarding updates in Rizana Nafeek’s. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- The Ste...
An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to Mr. Federico Mayor, President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty Mr. Federico Mayor President International Commission a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from a coalition of Japanese NGOs to UN Special Rapporteurs regarding the human rights situati...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Vigil India Movement, written by Advocate. K. Pratap Reddy. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- The...
“People do not take arms without reason” — Supreme Court The recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Dr. Nandini Sundar and others Vs State of Chhattisgarh and Union Govern...
An interview with Basil Fernando, director for Policy and Programme Development of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SPECIAL REPORT Torture in the Philippines & the unfulfilled promise of t...
A summary of a presentation made to the Vigil India Movement, Bangalore by the Asian Human Rights Commission Each generation has its own challenges. Not long ago the great challenge was to dispel the ...
Dear friends, The Minahasa district police in North Sulawesi charged Stanly Handry Ering, the whistleblower in a corruption case, with defamation. Ph E A Tuerah, Rector of the University of Negeri M...
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