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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two persons were killed in the name of “crossfire” by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Jessore district, Kh...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of defamation and intimidation involving five teachers by the school authority after t...

Last week Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) published an editorial entitled the ‘UN should not ignore [the] Sri Lankan conflict’ (August 8, 2006).  The editorial wondered ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your determined involvement to end the uncontrolled use of torture by the police and other government security forces in Bangladesh, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding an illegal arrest, torture and fabrication of charges against Janaka Perera and Tilan Perera  of Pana...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to request your serious attention to the non-independent lower judiciary of Bangladesh, and seek your active involvement in order to ov...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned but not surprised to hear that a senior police officer was threatened with death on 9 August 2006 when an anonymous caller to the police headquart...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of a suicide involving a man named Mr. Asmat Ali after he was allegedly arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Chhutipur camp...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information that a 16-year-old school girl has been duped into leaving home by one of her school teachers in Thiruwanaganga...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-188-2006 August 10, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Court delays, rights violations and impunity give no cause for celebration of Supreme Court...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to draw the attention of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the rampant and unrestrained abuses of human rights th...

[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...

This is the last in a series of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has felt compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council over the horrible human rights situation in B...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received updated information that two constables of the Border Security Forces (BSF) of Khayertala BOP No. 1 Point were simply dismissed without fac...

This is the fourth of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council on the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an assault of a 15-year-old boy by a Sub Inspector (SI) at the Panadura (South) police station in Panadura, Sr...

This is the third of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council about the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, an...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case involving the fabrication of charges by the Mahiyangana police. The victim, belonging to the Adhivasi (indigenous) comm...

A report on the proceedings of the trial – second day Hong Kong, August, 4, 2006 Today, August 4, Don Gayan Chandimal Amarakoon gave evidence before court stating that Sub-Inspector Suresh, the ...

On July 26, 2006 the UN Human Rights Committee published the view adopted by the Committee on July 14, regarding the communication filed by Sundara Arachchige Lalith Rajapakse holding that Sri Lanka h...