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SRI LANKA: Need to prosecute political leaders for acts of gross hr abuse — a reply to Ms. Dilrukshi Handunnetti

(Sunday Leader December 31, 2006) I am writing this to clarify misinformation contained in an article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTE’s southern gift’, by Dilrukshi Handunnetti, whi...

SRI LANKA: New Year’s Wish List for 2007

AS-321-2006 December 29, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: New Year’s Wish List for 2007 1. That fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution be fully honour...

BANGLADESH: Legal actions taken against prominent lawyers involved in writ challenging assumption of office by Chief Adviser 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that legal action has been taken against 12 lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court, including three top lawyers who are...

BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assumption of office by chief adviser-Part 2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-323-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assu...

BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assumption of office by chief adviser-Part 1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-320-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assump...

PAKISTAN: Gross negligence of the High Court of Sindh on disappeared persons who are allegedly detained in the military torture cells 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by gross negligence of the part of the High Court of Sindh on persons who are believed to be illegally detained in the milita...

SRI LANKA: 17-year-old assaulted by physical training teacher 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 17-year-old student of the Rahula National School was brutally assaulted by a school health and physical training teache...

SRI LANKA: the Executive Director of the AHRC replies to some comments published in a review article in the Island

In a feature entitled Review Essay – Targeting the NGO sector, The Island December 22, 2006, I found the following reference. “The Chairman of the seminar was a lawyer who I knew as a memb...

INDIA: Custodial death of a man who was victimized of consecutive police remand 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the death of a man due to custodial negligence in the state of Wes...

SRI LANKA: RE: Accession of the Republic of Sri Lanka to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) 

Your Excellency, On 18 December 2002, the UN General Assembly finally voted, by an overwhelming majority, the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Oth...

SRI LANKA: Further information on our initial complaint of October 26, 2006 to the former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga’s appointment as a Senior Consultant to UNESCO

Koichiro Matsuura  Director-General United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation 7, place de Fontenoy  75352 Paris 07 SP  France Fax: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90 E-mail: bpi@unesco.or...

SRI LANKA: AHRC responds to press release by Mdm. Kumaratunga’s office

A newspaper item appeared yesterday in the Daily Mirror (December 21, 2006) reporting that a press release from your office stated: “…that the Human Rights Organization based in Hong Kong,...

SRI LANKA: Judicial Service Association should not look for scapegoats for public loss of confidence in the judiciary

The newspapers reported a request by the Judicial Service Association (JSA) to “implement the death penalty to halt the loss of public confidence in the judiciary.”  This, according to th...

ASIA: AHRC announces the release of its 2006 Human Rights Report — The State of Human Rights in Eleven Asian Nations

(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...

SRI LANKA: Reporting on torture – Ours is a concern beyond a mere legal issue – further correspondence with the Chairman of Wijeya Newspapers Ltd

We refer your our earlier statement ‘SRI LANKA: Do newspapers like the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa contribute to the prevalence of endemic torture in Sri Lanka?’ and the doss...

BANGLADESH: Alleged public extrajudicial killing of a student league activist by the Rapid Action Battalion on the pretext of crossfire 

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————...

SRI LANKA: Alleged extrajudicial killings of two men by the police on the pretext of “crossfire”

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————–...

PAKISTAN: Two more persons are missing after being allegedly arrested by the security forces 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you of two more alleged disappearance cases from Sindh province in Pakistan which separately took place in July and August 2006. To dat...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Police investigate the alleged harassment of Muzibur Rahman by the DB police in Khulna 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman from his house by the Detective Branch (DB)...

UPDATE (India): Alleged rape and killing of a girl increase tensions in Singur 

[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...