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HUNGER ALERT (India): Deaths from starvation imminent in Alhadadpur village in Amebdkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation in Uttar Pradesh state, that several families in Alhadapur...

SRI LANKA: Antiterrorism Laws Used to Muzzle the Press – Government Abuses Legislation to Clamp Down on Criticism 

(New York, April 12, 2007) – The Sri Lankan government is abusing antiterrorism legislation to clamp down on journalists who expose human rights abuses, official corruption, or otherwise question the...

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a man by Ratnapura police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and brutal assault of a man by the Ratnapura police on 15 March 2007. The ...

INDIA: A family threatened by extortionists and the local police refusing to take any action

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, based in West Bengal that a family is facing continuous threat from extortionists and that...

UPDATE (Nepal): Legal aid NGO is now allowed to access to detainees at the Kanchanpur detention centre

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, now...

SRI LANKA: A police inspector allegedly assaulted and threatened a man on a personal matter

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 25 March 2007 an Inspector working at the Office of the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Negombo alleged...

INDIA: Caste prejudiced police officers beat up an 11 year old dalit boy

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh regarding the al...

INDIA: Police criminal nexus and absence of a legal framework perpetuates crime

Monoranjan Ghosh, a resident of Gopalpur village in South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal, was threatened by a money-extorting gang at least half a dozen times. Monoranjan was assaulted several ti...

PAKISTAN: Government allows anarchy and chaos created by fundamentalists to continue in order to divert attention from judicial crisis

A radical mosque and its affiliated seminaries have greatly increased their influence in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan after the mass protests throughout the country against President Mushar...

INDIA: Three persons allegedly shot dead by the Rapid Action Force in Manipur

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alert, a human rights organisation working in Imphal, Manipur regarding the alle...

INDIA: A person detained in illegal custody and tortured for seven days dies soon after release

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal with regard to the death of Mr. Hay...

BANGLADESH: A man allegedly tortured and further implicated with a false case by the Khan Jahan Ali police in Khulna

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of a man named Mr. Seyed Zabed Hossain by the Khan Jahan Ali police in Khulna distr...

SRI LANKA: Government opposes call to play by the rules

The Sri Lankan government’s propaganda war regarding Amnesty International’s campaign based on an innocent slogan in which they call on all Sri Lankans to ‘play by the rules’ is reminiscent of Don...

SRI LANKA: INVITATION to participate as Observers / Enthusiasts / Activists / Human Rights Defenders 

CIVIL MONITORING COMMISSION (CMC) Monitoring involuntary Disappearances, Abductions, Extra Judicial Killings, Extortionsand Arbitrary arrests and detentions in Sri Lanka #72 Bankshall Street Colombo 1...

INDIA: Is the election in Uttar Pradesh a contest between criminals?

Criminalisation of politics in India is a growing problem, despite legal attempts to address it. In 2003 a law was introduced to prohibit the election of criminals or alleged criminals to state or cen...

INDIA: Death of a woman in suspicious circumstances and local police failing to investigate the case properly

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, regarding the death of a 16 year ...

SRI LANKA: List of 81 disappeared persons documented for the last 8 months

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a list of name of 81 persons who disappeared between August 2006 to 20 March 2007. This list was documented by the Civil Monitoring ...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Investigating officer changed six times on the alleged custodial death of a man; the case extraordinarily drags on

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the custodial death of Mr. Sajedur Rahman Sarkar Sajid (please see UA-190-2006 and UP-147-2006). We wer...

INDIA: Dalits allegedly beaten up by upper caste and police refuse to register a case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Uttar Pradesh, the PVCHR, regarding the alleged attack on the Dalit community by the upper cas...

HUNGER ALERT (India): 18 Musahar families are dying of starvation due to negligence of district administration in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh that the 18 Musa...