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(Hong Kong, January 10, 2008) “Sri Lanka needs a popular mass movement which is not affiliated to any political parties to fight against lawlessness and to re-establish the rule of law” said Mr. J.C...

After the enormous reaction to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and a popular politician, the Musharraf government has registered more than 3,000 cases against more than ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a group of unknown persons had attempted to abduct a journalist on 7 January 2008. They came in two vehicles that w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Teras Ram who died from starvation in Baisa village of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state...

The case of Rizana Nafeek, a young girl from Sri Lanka who went to Saudi Arabia as a domestic helper when a 17 year-old teenager, and who was within a very short time accused of the murder of a infant...

The attention of this committee has been drawn towards the lackluster performance of police authorities in carrying out effective investigation in connection to the arrest, torture and subsequent kill...

Six journalists were killed, three of them while performing their professional duties, 73 were injured, mostly by the police in the worst year for? the journalists?in a decade while media remained und...

03.01.08 Media Release 1 Abrogation of Ceasefire Agreement Will Escalate Spiral of Violence The government has announced that it will abrogate the Norwegian-facilitated Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) signe...

On 31 December 2007 an online news agency — BD News24.com — of Bangladesh published a report with the title ‘DMP commissioner blames failure of police on political pressure’. The report ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-003-2008 January 03, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka’s further plunge into lawlessness The year 2008 began, for Sri Lank...

The two daughters of Ms. Asma Jehangir, a well known lawyer, human rights activist and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of religion or belief, were assaulted and illegally...

The year 2008 began, for Sri Lanka with the assassination of the Tamil opposition UNP Member of Parliament, T. Maheshwaran. Just a few days earlier a government minister, Mervyn Silva forcibly entered...

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who was the leader of one of the best known political parties in Pakistan that was contesting the election to be held on the 8th January 2008, reflects the nature ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Information Press Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Information Press forw...

As the Muslim world celebrated Eid and as the outside world celebrates Christmas, the forcibly ousted chief justice, Iftehkar Choudhry is being treated as a prisoner, held under house arrest and not e...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-288-2007 December 24, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission WORLD/SRI LANKA: Update on Online Petition – send your Christmas greetings by signing the online p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that two activists from Pakistan arrested in London on 4 December 2007 may be threatened with deportation. They are being he...

Mr. Mohmoodul Hassan, son of Mohammad Hassan, residing at Lohta village, Varanasi district has been suffering from tuberculosis for the past 22 years.  Mohmoodul was diagnosed of having tuberculosis ...

REF:  TIC Statement Date: 18 December 2007 The recent decision by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation of the International Co-ordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC) to downgr...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Kandy police have been threatening a man to leave the area when he returned to Kandy in 2007 since last September. ...