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Dear friends, The  Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mirihana Special Investigation Unit arbitrarily arrested and detained a man on 15 January 2008 in Sri Lanka. On t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two Sri Lankans and one Indian were sentenced to death by the High Court of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on 11 June 2007....

The detention of Mr. Iftekhar Choudhry, the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, has now run into its 100th day and during his detention all the members of his family, including his school-going childre...

From all around Sri Lanka there are constant reports of widespread thieving in the country, particularly around suburban town centres. This has gone so far as to affect even the dressing habits of wom...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the refusal of the police to register a complaint and file charges against a provincial minister and his armed...

Although the Independence Day has passed all the people of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others alike are more worried than ever about the future of independence, meaning the future of dem...

Three prominent lawyers who spearheaded the movement of lawyers, were again arrested and detained for a further month under the maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO). Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan, President...

Accountability Watch Committee Kathmandu, Nepal Press Statement Thursday Jan 31, 2008 Our attention has been drawn towards the recent reports in media that a meeting of the high-level political task f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forcible deprivation of the education of a 13-year-old student by teachers in Sri Lanka on 19 November 200...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a man by the Tissamaharama police on 29 December 2007. The police severely assaulted him before...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Prahar, a human rights organisation based in Assam, India regarding the case of Mr. Elento Tripura. Elento was ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan to various heads of states ...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 29 January 2008 SRI LANKA IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS AND ACTION BY MINISTERS ENDANGER JOURNALISTS Reporters Without Borders appealed toda...

The reports coming out of Pakistan state that a group of 100 ex-military personnel including former generals, admirals, air marshals and other retired officers are calling for the resignation of Presi...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 28 January 2008 High government official advocates censorship, SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo **For further information on the Mervyn Silva incident, see IFEX alert...

(Hong Kong, January 29, 2008) A Sri Lankan police witness who went back on previous evidence given in court concerning the killing of a torture victim in Colombo was on Friday himself put in custody. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Meetchi Makkal Iyakkam and the People’s Watch, two human rights organisations based in Tamil Nadu, India ...

Joint Statement Today the ravages of the ethnic conflict are taking centre stage in the country, and the absence of good governance in general is marked. In this context, the agreement among the three...

President Musharraf, while talking to a gathering of 800 Pakistanis in London, has asked the overseas Pakistanis to “put one, two or three punches” to Pakistani journalists who are destroy...