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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is encouraged by the ongoing public discussion and debate on the internet to a Statement that we have issued, titled: Philippines–Broken and lawless nat...

The Frontier Corp (FC) of the Pakistani army attacked a house in Balochistan after pursuing suspected militants. After cordoning off the house they opened fire with heavy machine guns and rocket launc...

Dear friends, According to reports received from local activists, two villagers were killed in Bolakme, Papua, Indonesia during a sweeping operation by the security forces on December 1, 2010. CASE NA...

A recent case that has come to attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission is a stark reminder of the inhuman conditions under which tens of thousands of prisoners in Burma, many of them prisoners ...

Last Sunday (November 28), two trade unionists were arrested and charged for causing incitement for rioting under Section 150 of the Penal Code by the Officer-in-Charge of Negombo Police Headquarters,...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has reliably learned that Rizana Nafeek’s appeal has reached the critical stage as her file, which was pending before the External Affairs Ministry has now been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the repeated beatings and torture inflicted by a police team from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the circumstances of a group of people in Burma living with HIV/AIDS who were ordered to move to a government hospital ...

The Mothers and Daughters of Lanka, a well known human rights organisation joined with many others who are demanding the immediate release of Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan girl who has been held i...

It is a reality today that opinions, expressions, understandings and assessments of regimes, and of those who lead and shape them and their subsequent conduct that has affected and continues to influe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that children of the Sahariya tribe in Madhya Pradesh are continuously dying of malnutrition. According to a fact-findin...

About 50,000 members of the fisher folk community in the Negombo lagoon area have been protesting against a move by the government to initiate a tourism project which will require the reclamation of p...

(Hong Kong, November 30, 2010)  Assassination of a torture victim and the death of criminal justice in Sri Lanka  On November 22, 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give ev...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) to the Rt Hon. David Cameron. Asian Human Rights Com...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following Appeal to the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Human Rights by the NGO’s Collaborative Action to Put the Na...

(Hong Kong, November 26, 2010) Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture at Beruwella Police Station We produce below the translation from the original Sinhala YouTube presentation of the testimony of Sam...

An Open Letter to Atty. Joseph Jev L. Palomar, Public Attorney II, Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), Kidapawan City District Office Atty. Joseph Jev L. Palomar Public Attorney II Public Attorney&#...

One of the first trips that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi made after her release this 13 November 2010 was to a privately-run hospice for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Rangoon, where she offered words of enc...

Around a dozen Christian youths were arrested and tortured and their houses searched by their Muslim neighbours in the presence of police officers to arrest a young Christian man, Zohaib alias Noami, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —...