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Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) notes with dismay the media reports suggesting a move by the government to abolish the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Public Accounts Committee ...

Tomorrow, January 26 marks the 57th year of the Indian republic. The question that will be in the mind of many this Republic Day is what has become of the “tryst with destiny” spoken of by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Md. Aminul Islam Shahin was tortured by the police personnel from the Gournadi police station in the Barisal di...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that around three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested en masse by the Bangladesh law-enforcement in Dhaka on the eve of ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The ar...

I refer to the complaint made by Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi [please refer to your case number 5840/24/97-98] of a well planned assassination attempt on his life. The attempt was on 18.02.1998. He has given ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was allegedly tortured to death in the custody of the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1 December 2007. After t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of human rights activists associated with Guria, that the case is dragging on in the court in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2...

Why is it that judges in Pakistan seem completely unable to apply the fundamental legal principle of habeas corpus and order police or military officers to produce detained or arrested persons in cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged brutal attack on a couple by persons who a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding abductions of three men who have been missing after allegedly being arrested by state secret agents in Sindh p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged deaths during a protest in Nandigram, East Midn...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist was allegedly tortured and fabricated charges were laid against him by the Kalpitiya police in Sri Lan...

On January 16 the government gazette of Bangladesh announced that the interim president, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, signed into law the separation of the country’s subordinate judiciary from the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Surendra Thapa was severely beaten up by senior police officers of the District Police Office (DPO), Surkhet di...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that we have received a letter from Mr. T.A. Mahanama Tilakaratne, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Disappearances in response to our...

As protests by farming communities fearing displacement from their land as a result of a new industrial project continue to lead to violence in West Bengal (Eastern India), Amnesty International is co...