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Despite of the speculation created through some statements by the Sri Lankan government that the Saudi Arabian authorities were considering commuting the death sentences of three Sri Lankan citizens h...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Reporters without Borders (RSF ASIA) – Tamil newspapers correspondent goes missi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you a report: CPA on Commission of Inquiry and IIGEP which appeared in the Nation, February 11, 2007. Asian Human Rights Com...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik (24), whose penis was cut while being tortured by the Market police...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the alleged arbitrary arrest of the NGO leader namely Mr. Shahidul Islam by army personnel in Satkhira...
Article 2 (3) of the ICCPR requires that the state party to the ICCPR shall ensure to any person whose rights and freedoms are violated shall have an effective remedy and that such a person shall have...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that bails for two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman, who were arbitrarily arrested, deta...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Human Rights Alert (HRA) based in Manipur, India, regarding an alleged incident of shooting ...
11th February 2007 Odhikar From 12 January to 10 February 2007 during the total 29 persons have been reportedly killed and 52027 persons have been arrested. Of the 29 people killed by law enforc...
On February 8, 2007 a leading politician and a member of the cabinet, Anura Bandaranaike, made a statement in Parliament in which he said that he had received several death threats. He said that Thr...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of an unacceptable delay of justice in the case of a young man, Udayanga Perera, who was arrested and subjected to severe tortu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of an alleged unprovoked attack by the Sri Lankan Navy on two groups of six fishermen from Negombo on January 27 and again on 28 Janu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a young man allegedly tortured to death on 3 February 2007, in the Malir central jail in Karachi, Sindh Province, ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organisation based in Howrah, We...
As protests were being planned by the railway workers and local and international protests were being staged regarding the three persons who had been abducted on February 5 (please see our statement S...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another alleged torture of a young man by the police in Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, Mr. A. Dushman...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Human Rights Alert (HRA) based in Manipur, India, regarding an alleged incident of indiscrim...
Scholars At Risk (SAR), an international network of universities and colleges dedicated to promoting academic freedom and its constituent freedoms of thought, opinion and expression -freedoms essentia...
During a recent visit to Uttar Pradesh, staff of the Asian Human Rights Commission came across a case that reveals the shocking extent to which the courts in India are misused by the rich and powerful...
The alleged abduction of three persons belonging to the Railway Workers Union who are also associated with the publication of the unions journal, Akuna, was reported in many publications including t...
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