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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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source of the alleged assault and arbitrary arrest of a public bus driver in Dhaka on 23 January 2007. W...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) forwards below a list of persons recently abducted in Sri Lanka, based on a report issued by the Civil Monitoring Mission on February 7, 2007. Th...

Many civil society organisations, both local and international have received a letter similar to the one that follows from the secretary to the Select Committee of Parliament for the Investigation of ...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...

The Government of India continues to defy commonsense by refusing to accept caste based discrimination is discrimination defined in the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

”  Representatives of the four religions and civil society groups spoke of the need for a political solution rather than a military solution.  In addition, Ambassadors from Norway, the United ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your immediate intervention to ensure the security of torture victim Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband Mr. Atinur Rahrman, who ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of 23 year-old Mr. Gareesh Kumar who is from the Hindu minority in Pakistan and was kidnapped...

The case of Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik, a young man of 24 years of age whose penis was severed at the Market Police Station in Larkana district, Sindh province, Pakistan on January 25, 2007 should raise g...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding an alleged brutal torture of a man by the Kotwali police in Bogra district on 25-26 J...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of the Bangladesh authoriti...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another brutal assault of an innocent young man by the Sri Lankan police. We were informed that without any reason, Mr. A.A. Pri...