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The Asian Human Rights Commission categorically condemns the decision of the second court-martial delivered today in the case against Sarath Fonseka. The political use of the judicial process is a com...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from ASHOKA Pakistan , written by Mr. Amir Murtaza. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from ...

Re: Renewal of the Mandate for the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan  Your Excellency,  The undersigned human rights organizations, are writing to urge your government to ...

Death visited Orissa once again. Whenever the rainy season comes, death from the waterborne diseases of diarrhea and cholera follow. As the rains are a natural phenomenon, can the deaths also be natur...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the civil groups of South Korea to the Chairperson of the Meena Gupta Committee of India....

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bodies of a lawyer and his cousin from Balochistan province have been found. Both bodies bore marks of severe t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Sri Lankan Navy arrested a civilian and later handed him over to officers of the Maravila Police Station. They ...

FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-097-2010 September 16, 2010 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The banality of evil, a rejoinder to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka A strong ruler and weak insti...

*Avinash Pandey Enlightenment, it seems, has finally dawned upon the Indian government. The words of wisdom that came out of yesterday’s all-party meeting on Kashmir, convened by the Prime Minis...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Judge Soliman M. Santos, Jr. of the 9th Municipal Circuit Trial Courts (MCTC) in Nabua-Bato, Camarines Sur. Judge Santos is the for...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man who was severely tortured later succumbed to his injuries. He was arrested by police officers attached to the...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the local police in Thrissur district, Kerala state has illegally detained and tortured a student, for refusing t...

By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza Last week, the government of Pakistan announced it would push the National Assembly to pass the long-awaited Acid Control and Burn Crime Prevention Bill this month. The bill...

Basil Fernando   For all Sri Lankan’s but particularly for those of the educated classes the problems that have come by way of political and constitutional change has created many emotional...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2010 AHRC-OLT-010-2010 An Open Letter to Faith Suzzette delos Reyes-Kong, senior legal officer of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR 9) by the Asian Human Rights C...

Q: What was your purpose in writing the book ‘Torture of the Poor?’ Why do we talk about torture and poverty? A: Because in the real world, particularly in less developed countries, we can...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man had been tortured while in the custody of law enforcement officers who arbitrarily arrested him. The officers did...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the custodial death of Mr. Mizanur Rahman, who was extrajudicially killed by the Gulshan Police in Dha...

Basil Fernando In an article which appeared in the Island newspaper entitled, ‘Hardly the Death of Democracy or the Nation — Ten Points from a Political Scientist’, (September 11, ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was severely tortured before being illegally arrested and detained by officers of the Welippena Police Stat...