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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to update you on a previous appeal we wrote (UA-220-2005) regarding the torturing of four persons, including one mentally disabled boy, by...

[RE: UA-183-2005: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-127-2005: Main suspect identified in alleged rape incident at Bandaranayake I...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged fabricated charges of sexual assault laid against a school teacher by the Saliyawewa police. Ms. Pavithra Kar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the kidnapping of a social and environmental activist in Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh on 2...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about atrocities perpetuated by the local police in coalition with the district administration on ...

The starvation deaths and malnutrition affecting thousands of villagers residing on the banks of the Padma River in Jalangi, Murshidabad has for the first time been accepted by the local administratio...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the unauthorized entry of the police into the house of a ma...

[RE: UA-214-2005: PAKISTAN: Desecration and destruction of churches and Christian property after blasphemy allegations at Sangla Hills, Pakistan] PAKISTAN: Religious intolerance and violence, destruct...

[RE: UA-183-2005: SRI LANKA: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-127-2005: Main suspect identified in alleged rape incident at Band...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a mentally retarded boy along with three other persons were allegedly tortured by police attached to the Mahawela police s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Social Development Foundation, Delhi, India about the torture of some tribals in Palhari Village, Nauganwa Bloc...

First anniversary of the assassination of Gerald Perera; On November 21 2004, Gerald Perera was assassinated while riding on a bus at noon. He was an employee at the Colombo Harbour who was pursuing a...

Dear friends, You will be aware that Sri Lanka has a new Executive President who was elected on 17 November 2005.  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is issuing this urgent appeal because of th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the indiscriminate firing by the Border Security Force (BS...

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the destruction of Christian churches and schools by people enraged at the alleged blasphemy of the Holy Quran...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal custodial torture of two tribal men at Areth police outpost in Surat District, Gujarat, India. Accor...

More than a decade after India’s ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), children throughout the country continue to suffer from hunger, disease, exploitation and d...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on a case of police malpractice and negligence that has led to the theft of a man’s motorcycle parts.  Mr. Fernan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information regarding the case of the five men who were beaten to death by a mob of villagers after they were suspected of h...