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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the unlawful arrest and illegal detention of Mihindukulasuriya Varnapelige Maheshan Manojith Silva, a 20 year-...

The recent statement of the Inspector General of Police and his Deputy to the effect that policemen, soldiers and deserters are among those who have been investigated with regard to the allegations of...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist named Mr. Lal Malhi who produced a documentary on disappearances was threatened and nearly abducted by the...

The admission by the Chief of Police in Sri Lanka that the police, army and the army deserters are responsible for abductions and killings of civilians is a bold move. However, for the Asian Human Rig...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the brutal torture of a 21 year-old man named ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the alleged extra-judicial killing of a villag...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, India, MASUM that a family was brutally assaulted in the presence of police in Pa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, has been refus...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that as we worried, the police now allegedly fabricated charges against two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Pala...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-040-2007 March 2, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Women fighting for their rights and groups fighting for electoral reforms express frustrati...

Corruption in Sri Lanka is worse today than ever before. This fact is admitted by everyone, is seen to be more and more evident in the press, and even the government does not deny it. All governments ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged arbitrary arrest and severe torture of a 16-year-old boy by police officers in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-036-2007-R1 March 01, 2007 A reply by the Asian Human Rights Commission to a reaction concerning an earlier Statement Background: The AHRC received a reaction from Dukhinda Ja...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your intervention into the case of a human rights defender wrongly detained on fabricated charges by the police in Murshidabad distri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement from the editorial board of Maubima, a Sunday newspaper. Some of their staff are alleged to have...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Palash, Principal Programme Coo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that the Magistrate of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court has rejected the bail petition of Mr. Jafor Mollah on...

The government of Pakistan continues to turn a blind eye to Islamic extremism throughout the country and is compromising the rule of law for religious fanaticism. In doing so, the country has once aga...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from its local parter in West Bengal, MASUM, about Mr. Gopen Sharma, who was illegally arrested and is currently...