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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2006 AS-107-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BURMA: The 1974 Constitution and challenge for Burma’s courts U Tin Nyein is among the latest vict...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that a farmer in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma has been jailed after lodgi...

The new Human Rights Council was elected on May 9, 2006. According to the General Assembly Resolution of April 3, 2006,  When electing members of the Council, Member States shall take into account th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has heard reports through shortwave radio broadcasts and other sources that police in at least two townships of Rangoon are arbitrarily arresting...

On April 12 an unusual story appeared in Burma’s state-run daily newspapers. It said that a man identified as Wai Phyo Naung killed himself in a police lock up in Mandalay after being arrested f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you a statement issued by the World Forum for Democratization in Asia. The statement points specifically to the current state of...

[RE: UA-141-2005: BURMA: Alleged rape of a woman by two police officers in Twente Township; UP-008-2006: BURMA: Two police to go to court over alleged rape; UP-039-2006: BURMA: Unnecessary delays in t...

Dear friends, Since last year, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has closely followed the case of U Aye Myint, a lawyer who was arrested at the end of August 2005 and imprisoned at the end of O...

[RE: UA-097-2006: BURMA: Municipal officers and firefighters beat man to death then police charge his friends; UP-060-2006: BURMA: Innocent people blamed for killing of Thet Naing Oo; witnesses remain...

Dear friends, In the past week there has been further information coming through many channels on the murder of Ko Thet Naing Oo in a Rangoon market on March 17 by government officers (UA-097-2006). T...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that the appeal of two villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma against ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports that officials in Rangoon, Burma beat a young man to death after which the police arrested two of his friends, wh...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through staff of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) that the trial of two police officers charged with rape in central Burma i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the case of a couple who were twice brutally assaulted in public by a gang led by a local council chief in Burma during Septem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) and other sources that two villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma have...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Myint Moe Media Group (Thailand) that next Monday, February 20, the case of jailed tuition teacher U Aung Pe is to go to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that after an appeal was issued for police assault victim Ko Aung Myint Oo (UA-058-2006), an investigation team was sent to inq...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been in contact with persons who have informed about a brutal assault by police on a young man, Ko Aung Myint Oo, who was beaten by a group o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a number of sources on the ongoing trial of a number of persons who helped lodge a complaint of forced labour with ...

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...