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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Harshana Tharindu Wijegunawardena, an 11-year-old student (grade 6) at St. Johns College in Panadura, has been su...
Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a jirga was organized in the case of Hidayat Mahar, who was killed by her husband on the pretext of honour k...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that A G Ravindra (26) was assaulted and illegally detained again on 23 July 2004 by the Katupota police for making a co...
This week, the National Police Commission (NPC) of Sri Lanka made the following welcome announcements: That disciplinary control of all police officers except the Inspector General of Police (IGP), in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organization in Bangladesh that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials arbitrarily tortured and arre...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organisation in West Bengal, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) that a pregnant Dalit woman, Lilabati...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organisation in West Bengal, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), about a violent attack on a group of ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 30-year-old woman in a vacant train compartment at the Hasanabad Railway station, West Bengal on 18 ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 22, 2004 AS-26-2004 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned regarding the devastating security situation in Nepa...
Dear friends It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a cleric, Qari Mohammad Noor, arrested last week for suspected al-Qaeda links has died in custody in controve...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mount Lavinia police severely assaulted numerous Bata Shoe Company workers in Colombo on 12 August 2004, to break u...
Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that while the Calcutta High Court granted leave on 28 July 2004 to prosecute police officers allegedly re...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the murder of two teenage girls in Pakistan, Aabida and Tahmeena for visiting their grandparents witho...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to intervene in the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution date has been set for 4am tomorrow, 14 August 20...
Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that yet another instance of child torture has been committed within a Sri Lankan police station. Two boys, 14 an...
In declining to use its powers to review the death sentence of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the Supreme Court of India has today not only declined to take responsibility for the life that it has condemned, b...
Men illegally arrested and tortured by Matale Police, and falsely charged with stealing money SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest; torture; false charges ————————...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case of honor killing from Shikarpur district, Sindh province, Pakistan. According to the information received, on 14 July 2...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the mysterious death of 14-year-old boy R.M. Salinda Probashana allegedly on 23 June 2004. He was missing after he...
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