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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 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 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 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 prosecutor’s 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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that 317 workers of the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL), opposed to the government’s decision to privatize...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the current grave human rights situation in Nepal. From this information we can confirm...

[RE: UP-37-2004: SRI LANKA: A Kandy coordinator of National Police Commission allegedly cooperates with torture perpetrators; UP-34-2004: Priyankara brutally assaulted and arrested with no access to l...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed by reliable sources that a 25-year-old three-wheel driver has been illegally arrested and tortured by two Police Constables attached t...

UA-99-2005: NEPAL: Two recent incidents involving threats to a Teachers’ Union leader and the re-arrest of citizens despite Supreme Court release orders Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Comm...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source that a 26-year-old man was allegedly severely tortured by Sub Inspector Ranaweera of the Pandaura Police, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of  yet another honour killing case in Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information recei...