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SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and fabrication of charges by Wattegama Police

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about an alleged torture case by police officers of Wattegama Police Station. P.K.W. Wijesinghe was summoned to the polic...

BANGLADESH: Alleged serious intimidation by the Rapid Action Battalion in Rajshahi against a human rights defender

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged serious threats and intimidation against a human rights defender and journa...

PAKISTAN: Brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the ruling party members

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the cou...

BANGLADESH: Human Rights Defender is seriously threatened and intimidated by Navy

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a local human rights group ODHIKAR that their acting director, Mr. ASM Nasiruddin Elan, had been serious...

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Muslim weavers’ community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh faces starvation and lack of social welfare

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the horrible livin...

PAKISTAN: LRWC repeats call for the reinstatement of Chief Justice Chaudhry 

APRIL 27, 2007: (Update to LRWC statement of March 19, 2007) LRWC deplores President Musharraf’s March 9, 2007 suspension of Iftikar Mohamed Chaudhry from his office as Chief Justice of the Supr...

NEPAL: Authorities refuse to register FIR concerning extra-judicial killings case

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from NGO Advocacy Forum Nepal that the District Police Office (DPO) and the District Administration Office (DAO) in Bank...

SRI LANKA: Long delay obtaining justice for the alleged fabricated charge against a married couple

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged fabricated charges against Mr. J.D.Jayatilaka and his wife which were instigated in from 2001. Mrs. Ja...

PAKISTAN: Failure to protect Chief Justice Chaudhry would be a blatant act of negligence on the part of the government

The government of Punjab province, no doubt through the instructions of the government of the military regime of General Musharaff, is using some flimsy excuses to thwart the traveling arrangements of...

ASIA: Two outstanding rights defenders from India awarded regional prize

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): List of another 22 disappeared persons

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an updated list of persons disappeared in Sri Lanka from the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC), a local human rights organization in...

SRI LANKA: A woman allegedly implicated with a false case due to nexus between the excise department officers and local criminals

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to inform you about an alleged false case against a 65-year-old woman in Wanathayilluwa, by officers from the Excise Department in Puttalam w...

SRI LANKA: Another alleged assault of a 14-year-old student by the principal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is repor...

PAKISTAN: AHRC condemns the arrest, detention and physical violence used against lawyers supporting Chief Justice Iftehkar Chaudry

In the latest move against the supporters of Chief Justice Iftehkar Chaudry a Supreme Court lawyer, Mr. Ali Ahmed Kurd has been detained by the Quetta police at the district court. The detention comes...

UPDATE (India): District Magistrate misusing his office to lead a smear campaign against human rights activists

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the uninterrupted campaign of the District Magistrate against the human rights organisations within hi...

PAKISTAN: Petition by the Chief Justice publicised

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to share with you the constitutional petition filed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the Sup...

INDIA: Bar Councils, lawyers and Indias destiny

A legal professional is not above the law. A solicitor in Hong Kong was sentenced to imprisonment recently. It was alleged that the solicitor’s client who had lodged a complaint about a stockbroker h...

PAKISTAN: Detention of Chief Justice shows utter disrespect for independence of judiciary

Shocking details are emerging about the manner in which the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudry, was requested to resign from his post, and how when he refused he was physically restrained form leaving th...

SRI LANKA: Giving police powers to the military will pave the way to torture chambers in military camps

The government has recently announced that police powers will be granted to the military by way of further emergency regulations. When the BBC Sinhala Service questioned the government spokesman, Mini...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): No suspension against teacher charged with assault case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the teacher who was charged with assaulting a student has yet to be suspended from his post. In addition, t...