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Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Article 21-Now, a human rights group based in India regarding the recent attack in Nandigram. The statement issued by the Asian Hum...

(Hong Kong, November 19, 2007 Sr. Amithreni, a Tamil Catholic nun has sought assistance from the state authorities and human rights groups against threats of abduction as she has received many threate...

Since General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and dismissed the Supreme Court of Pakistan on November 3, appointing a mock bench in its place, over 3000 lawyers have been held in remand...

Pressure applied by the government of Pakistan has caused officials in Dubai to order that the broadcasts of two popular television channels, Geo News and ARY, be cut as of midnight on November 16. Bo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the serious medical condition of a prominent human rights lawyer, Mr. Syed Hassan Tariq. He was brutally tortured by the pol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the maltreatment of a couple by the Borde...

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and Lawyers without Borders/Québec (LWB) and the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) join to call for: 1.  The i...

We reproduce below the final in the series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the brutal attack by armed activists ...

(Hong Kong, November 14, 2007) Allegations that the government of Pakistan used its intelligence service to make sex videos with which to blackmail judges indicate that General Pervez Musharraf “...

Nandigram, a remote village in West Bengal state of India is once again in front page news in the country. This remote village in West Bengal was in the news 11 months ago when violence erupted in the...

We reproduce below the fourth in a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources regarding a list of extrajudicial killings of 53 persons solely for the single month of October 20...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man and the injury of his son due to an accident that occurred on 7 September 2007 in Sri Lanka...

General Pervez Musharraf on 11 November 2007 announced that he “expects” general elections to be held in Pakistan before January 9, within 60 days of the National Assembly’s dissolut...

Karachi, Pakistan – On 3rd of November 2007, MAST FM103 Karachi station was invaded by PEMRA () officials with heavy police force and was forced to shutdown transmission and all broadcast equipm...

Presentation at the International Human Rights Colloquium at San Paulo organised by CONECTAS from 3rd to 8th November by: Basil Fernando Executive Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission This is...

We the undersigned wish to express our grave concern regarding the ongoing political and human rights crisis in Pakistan. As we meet in Sao Paolo, Brazil for the seventh International Colloquium on Hu...

Dear friends, Further to our previous appeals, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the freedom of the press has been denied through the two ordinances which the government ...

The International Bar Association (IBA) is calling upon its member bars and law societies across the globe to support . Since President Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the Pakist...