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[Re: UP-18-2005: NEPAL: Additional lists of arrested political leaders/activists and human rights defenders; UP-16-2005: NEPAL: List of arrested political leaders and human rights defenders; Internat...

[Re: UP-16-2005: NEPAL: List of arrested political leaders and human rights defenders; International intervention is urgently required; UG-01-2005: NEPAL: Latest information on the situation in distri...

In a February 7 order, the District Administration Office Nepalgunj in Nepal instructed members of the media to falsify news in favour of the government, which since February 1 has been under the abso...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward updated information to you regarding recent arrests in Nepal’s worsening crisis. The following are some cases of arrest a...

In a coordinated move, the governments of the United States and European Union have recalled their ambassadors to Nepal for talks over the rapidly worsening situation there. Announcing the recall, US ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sending you the report which includes latest situation in districts in Nepal. The report includes the information up to 10 February 2005 s...

The abrogation of the Nepali democracy through the 2005 February 1 coup d’ètat by the king who took absolute power upon himself, is continuing with harsher repression being exercised over all d...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2005 AS-13-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission February will be a chilling month for Democrats, Human Rights Workers and Media in Nepal  Despite in...

The situation in Nepal following King Gyanendra’s dismissal of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s cabinet and his formation of a new government of which he is the head, poses some hard qu...

The situation in Katmandu and the rest of Nepal at the moment since the formal dismissal of the government on February 1, 2005, by King Gyanendra and his takeover through the declaration of a state of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by new information received by Asia Forum, a local human rights organisation, of the attempted second re-arrest of a person ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four men, namely Laxaman Pun, Prithvi Gautam B.K. (also known as Suraj), Sher Bahadur Budha (also known as Dinesh) ...

There are heartening stories coming from Thailand regarding the importance communities and the government are attaching to the problems of children and their need to return to school.  In many places...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to you to report further illegal arrests and the forced disappearance of four persons in Parbat District.  According to the information w...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the grief of those faced with one of the worst natural catastrophes of recent times by way of the tsunamis that devastated several countries such as Ind...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the concerns expressed by the Secretary General of the United Nations in his statement on the human rights situation in Nepal. Time and again the AHRC h...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that Mr Jeewan Shrestha, who we have reported on in the past (UA-159-2004), has been re-arrested for the third time by secur...

The immense killing and insecurity tearing Nepal apart are no longer a secret. War-torn Nepalese are fleeing daily to save themselves from atrocities committed by the state security forces and Maoist ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another illegal arrest and forced disappearance of a young man named Mr Naniram Kafle (23) by around 50 personnel of the J...

Around two hundred Nepalese are now have been witnessed to be crossing the border into India every hour, escaping the atrocities of both government and Maoist troops. Clearly, the violence in Nepal is...