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The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned that the accused police officer in the torture case of Palitha Thissa Kumara was acquitted by the judge of the High Court, Kalutara this morning (October ...

Korala Liyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara’s complaint of torture against a Sub Inspector of Police attached to the Wellipena Police Station received local and international publicity due, among othe...

The president of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, again rescheduled the execution of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a 36-year-old Pakistani-born British national. A black warrant was issued by the sessions c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the custodial death on October 16th, 2006 of 32-year old Indian citizen Mr. Manoj Das. It is alleged that Mr....

[RE: UA-141-2004: SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily assaulted by the SI of the Horana Police Station without any reason, UP-051-2006: SRI LANKA: Justice continues to evade victim one and a half years after...

A senior lawyer who has appeared in many issues of public interest in recent years is now facing the threat of being removed from the roll as a lawyer due to a fundamental rights application he filed ...

[RE: UP-187-2006: BANGLADESH: Repeated police threats to the victim of an attempted rape; UA-296-2006: BANGLADESH: A girl sexually harassed and boy arbitrarily arrested, tortured and detained by the S...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two more persons were killed in the name of ‘crossfire’ by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Khulna on 1 Septembe...

[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 Pakistan aut...

The statement: We reproduce below European Parliamentarian Sajjad Karim’s questions to the European Commissioner for External Relations and her response dated 12 October 2006. The questions addr...

Why are the authorities of the University of Karachi protecting attempted rapists? A July 28 incident, which allegedly involved a number of university staff and members of the Pakistan Rangers station...

The European Commission has reported of the visit of a mission of high level experts to be sent by the Co- Chairs to review the current situation of human rights in Sri Lanka and to suggest necessary ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner based in Kerala state, India, regarding the case of Mr. Sunil who was tortured at the Kodakara po...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-251-2006 October 13, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Removing dust is the government’s job The Daily Star newspaper published a repor...

On the morning of 22 January 2004, Chea Vichea, a famous and popular labour union leader, was gunned down while reading a newspaper by a roadside newsstand in Phnom Penh. The gunman rode off on a moto...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man from Galle, Sri Lanka, who tried to register the case of robbery, rather brutally assaulted by one sub inspec...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to save the life of Mr. Mirza Tahir Hussain (aged 38), who is facing imminent execution scheduled for ear...

October 10th was declared as the World Day Against the Death Penalty in 2003 by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The ongoing debate has again arisen on the issue of the existence of the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the severe torture of two men by the Saddar police in Faisalabad district, Punjab province, Pakistan on 10 Septemb...

The Daily Prothom Alo newspaper published a report on September 18 that murder charges against three persons have been dropped on the orders of the government of Bangladesh. According to the report, A...