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A High Court judge, Sarath Ambipitiya, was assassinated on the 21st November 2004. Within seven months the criminal investigations and the trial were completed with a three member trial at bar findi...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding three persons illegally and arbitrarily detained at Jala...
[Re: UP-74-2005: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Priyankara received death threats again and urgent witness protection is required; UP-37-2004: A Kandy coordinator of National Police Commission allegedly co...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture, arbitrary arrest and illegal detention of a young journalist in Nepal. Mr Chandralal Giri ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from sources about the inaction of the police and the Attorney General in regards to the abduction and murder of a man i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about the inaction of the police and the Ministry of Education in regards to the defamation and threatening of five school teac...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village,...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about another custodial death of a man at the Santaragacchi Gove...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned by the alleged torture and death of Kosma Sumansiri by the Ratgama police. He was arrested with three of his friends by the Ratga...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of Bernard Janapriyana (See further: UA-63-2005). In a letter to the AHRC dated 25 May 20...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of Gamini Senadeera and his wife, who gave birth prematurely to a stillborn child due to p...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about a police attack on the students of Jadavpur University, Wes...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) regarding the appalling starvation situation in the South 24 Parganas Dist...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-72-2005 June 27, 2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Trauma treatment should be integral to Nepal’s human rights monitoring operation Torture, e...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the restriction of human rights defenders and political atavists in Nepal. Freedom of m...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim, who filed a charge of torture against the officer-in-charge (OIC) and a police constable from the Horana...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding alleged fabricated charges laid against a human rights activists, who is a member of th...
Much of the public prosecutors office in India now functions as a brokerage office where unholy deals are fixed between the police, the defence counsel and the prosecutors. Nothing worse could be ex...
Why has a special day been proposed for the victims of torture? What is its importance? It is hoped that this special day will initiate a movement that can highlight the gravity of torture and establi...
Protests against the use of torture by law enforcement agencies are becoming more widespread in countries throughout Asia. These are emanating from a growing popular sentiment against torture as an ab...
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