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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged murder of a young student monk at the hands of those whose care he had been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that according to the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), as well as local media sources, s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote to you on 20 September 2005 detailing the police beating of Mr. Chheparuddin Mondal, which led to his death. We also commented that the pol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informed you on 22 September 2005 that a people’s tribunal hearing on starvation and government neglect will be held at Bankim Niwas in Jalangi,...

Seven doctors from the Negombo Hospital threatened to go on strike if they were not provided with free legal aid in a case before the Negombo Magistrate’s Court, where they had been summoned to appea...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two student activists were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Kalimati police in Kathmandu on 13 an...

On 1 February 2005, King Gyanendra usurped all executive powers through a royal proclamation and imposed a “state of emergency” in the country that has been precipitously descending into b...

A people’s tribunal hearing on starvation and government neglect will be held at Bankim Niwas in Jalangi, Murshidabad, West Bengal on September 23 and 24, organized by the Howrah-based Banglar M...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 16-year-old P.W. Pushpakumara, a student of Gonapinuwela Saralankara School, Gonapinuwela, Galle District, Sri Lank...

[Re: UA-161-2005: INDIA: Human rights defender physically assaulted, threatened and detained by government officials; HU-04-2005: INDIA: UNICEF still avoiding responsibility in providing assistance to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a case concerning alleged bribery and theft on the part of a local politician from Ragama, Sri Lanka. According to our so...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information through the Peoples Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a human rights organisation based in Uttar ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2005 AS-95-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Scandal at the Inland Revenue Department needs to be investigated and brought under criminal...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three policemen from the Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and Women in Colombo were taken by the Tami...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the killing of an unarmed man allegedly at the hands of Border Security Forces (BSF), despite the victim pleading his inn...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2005 AS-94-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Meningitis caused by neglect and the responsibility of Sri Lanka’s religious leaders Me...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news from Masum of the death of a villager who committed suicide due to poverty and starvation in West Bengal on August ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news of the starvation death of a 65 year-old woman in Sonbhadra, Uttar-Pradesh. Punvasia, an elderly tribal woman (adiva...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the suspicious death of a man following his being taken into custody by security forces. Chandra Bahadur Basnet, alias Ma...