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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a torture victim, who had his penis severed by the Station Head Officer (SHO) of the Market police station in Larkana District, ...

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

From: RSF ASIA <asie@rsf.org> Subject: SRI LANKA: Army said to be holding Tamil journalist who 23 March 2007 Following the police chief’s recent admission that the security forces have bee...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 16 year-old female gang-rape survivor has been allegedly ordered by the police to leave the safe-house where she and her famil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one renowned trade union activist and human rights defender namely Mr. Phani Gopal Bhattacharya, has allegedly been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was il...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher at the school on 15 March 2007. The victim was seve...

The legal community of Pakistan has rejected a government offer for talks, while demanding the withdrawal of the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and the formation of a natio...

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), and Pax Roma...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source (name withheld for security reasons), regarding the cases of abductions of 15 innocent civilians i...

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

On 19 March 2007, Bangladesh’s national television channel BTV announced in a news bulletin that the present government has “in principle decided to establish a National Human Rights Commi...

“There is anarchy and everyone is taking the law into his own hands” said the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)]. He is right! So what is the state gover...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the security of Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa, a torture victim who was brutally attacked by the police of the Dhaka Metro...

The last few weeks have seen the use of the powers of the Attorney General’s Department to freeze the accounts of a person associated with a leading newspaper which turned hostile to the governm...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to th...

In recent weeks the Asian Human Rights Commission commented on two major violations of human rights from Pakistan. One was the severing of a young man’s penis by police officers in Larkana distr...

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