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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the abduction of two men by two unidentified persons on 27 July 2007. Police subsequently arrested and torture...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India that one of MASUM’s staff has been charge shee...
The Inspector General of the Bangladesh Police, Nur Mohammad, was quoted in various national newspapers on 22 July 2007 as accepting the poor reputation of the force and extent of political interferen...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is seriously concerned about the developments relating to CCS Elsuma (Pvt) Ltd based at Daluwakotuwa, Kochchikade (near Negombo) which has blatantly disregarded an ag...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appealing to you to write to the Indian authorities requesting them to drop the false charges against Dr. Binayak Sen and release him from cus...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the whereabouts of three professors of Rajshahi University remain unknown after they were produced before the Chief...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights [PVCHR], a human rights organisation based...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding alleged harassment and victimization of an 8-year-old boy by the Principal and teachers of his school after he...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 15-year-old boy was denied to attend school since 3 July 2007 after it was alleged that he had had a love relatio...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another disappearance. The victim, Eldrin Mathew, was taken by four persons on the pretext of questioning on 14 Febru...
I am writing this on behalf of the Asian Human Rights Commission to raise an issue regarding a problem of policy which is affecting the capacity of the Sri Lankan government to provide legal assistanc...
Caste based discrimination is the Indian variant of apartheid. For decades Indians have been separated and divided according to the caste hierarchy. In spite of several laws and even Constitutional ...
As human rights defenders, we are very concerned by the news that the British Government is officially hosting the Chief of the Army , General Rukmangat Katuwal in London this week. At the time of the...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Grama Swaraj Samithi (GSS), a human rights organisation based in Dudhi, Sonbadra district of ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously informed you through several appeals regarding the case of Ms. Rizana Nafeek who is facing the death sentence by beheading in Saud...
Last week an Inspector of Police (IP) and a Police Constable (PC) who were accused of torturing a 25 year-old woman, Angalin Roshana Michael, were sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and...
It has been two months and a few days since the new state administration took charge in Uttar Pradesh. The Chief Minister has openly declared that her government would not tolerate any form of caste b...
forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: the Supreme Court Judgment reversing the suspension of the We reproduce below the judgment given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding the...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the family of a 15-year-old girl, who was struck 20 times on 18 June 2007 by a male school teacher in the K...
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