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SRI LANKA: Assault on a female police constable by an Inspector of Police of the Matugama police station 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a female police constable Sunethra Koswatte (WPC No 3134) by an Inspector of Police at the Matu...

UPDATE (Nepal): Further arrests occur in Nepal’s escalating crisis 

[RE:UA-036-2006: NEPAL: Further arrests in Nepal’s worsening political, security and human rights crisis; UG-002-2006: NEPAL: Immediate intervention required in Nepal’s deepening political, security...

SRI LANKA: Police fail to investigate case as the alleged perpetrator is the son of an Assistant Superintendent of Police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an accident victim Alton Laskshman Mendi who was left unconscious by the police who instructed the family memb...

INDIA: Corrupt police conniving with feudal landlords and utter neglect by the government facilitates extreme exploitation of tribal community in Uttar Pradesh, India 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights group working in Uttar Prades...

NEPAL: Further arrests in Nepal’s worsening political, security and human rights crisis 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of further human rights violations, notably beatings and arbitrary detentions, in relation to the ongoing suppression of the democrat...

THAILAND: Police free alleged murderer for cash but detain four witnesses 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been in communication with the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand about the failure of local police to investigat...

SRI LANKA: Presidential immunity does not extend to violations of the Constitution

A strange notion prevails in Sri Lankan legal circles that presidential immunity extends even to constitutional violations. This is despite the fact that one of the grounds for the impeachment of a pr...

PAKISTAN: City government forces eviction leaving thousands homeless and without food in Karachi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forced eviction of thousands of households in Rehmatya colony by Karachi City Government officials. The co...

BANGLADESH: Turag police invade property in violation of court order 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Turag police forcefully invaded a disputed land, and the house located on it, despite a court order requesting them no...

GENERAL APPEAL (Nepal): Immediate intervention required in Nepal’s deepening political, security and human rights crisis 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to voice our grave concern for the allegations of human rights violations in relation to the repression of demonstrations in Nepal’s deep...

NEPAL: Re-arrest of two Nepalese citizens undermines official court orders and rule of law 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information regarding the re-arrest of citizens in Nepal, indicating that the practice is still rife within the country. ...

INDIA: Caste Hindus attack tribal communities and the police connive with the upper caste and refuse to take action in Uttar Pradesh, India 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group in Uttar Pradesh, India of at least three confirmed cases involving the tribal members of the ...

NEPAL: over 200 persons arrested, including allegations of beatings and arbitrary detention orders, in the continuing crisis in the country

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further allegations of human rights violations in relation to the repression of demonstrations in Nepal’s deepening political, security and human...

NEPAL: the imposition of a day-time curfew and further arrests in the deepening crisis in Nepal

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is releasing a follow-up statement to complement the information that it provided in a statement yesterday concerning the arrests of over 100 political leaders...

NEPAL: Threats made against the life of a human rights defender 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding serious threats made against the life of a human rights defender in Nepal. In recent days, the Sub-Inspector o...

NEPAL: A man arbitrarily detained and tortured by the ranger and his subordinate of the Royal Sukla Fhata National Park of Maj-Gwan Kanchanpur, Nepal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture, arbitrary arrest and 19 day illegal detention of a man by the ranger and his subordinate o...

NEPAL: A man arbitrarily detained and tortured by the Kanchanpur district police office 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary detention and torture of a man by the Kanchanpur district police office. Tek Raj Bhatta ran away...

NEPAL: Human rights defenders targeted – over a hundred persons arrested in a serious escalation of repression in Nepal

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the arrest of over 100 political leaders and human rights activists earlier today, January 19, 2006, in a serious development in the deter...

INDIA: A man tortured and a human rights defender assaulted and verbally abused by the Inspector-in-Charge of the Serampore police station, Hoogly, West Bengal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a man and the assault of and verbal abuse against a human rights defender by the Inspector-in-C...

NEPAL: the illegitimate government steps up its repression by enforcing curfews and a total, indefinite ban on demonstrations

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the additional and disproportionate restrictions imposed upon the people in Nepal by the newly enforced curfew and the total ban on peaceful demonstra...