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NEPAL: Immediate domestic and international intervention needed to protect lives of people and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Nepal

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...

PAKISTAN: A cleric dies in custody after being detained for suspected al-Qaeda links 

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...

SRI LANKA: Brutal force used to disperse unarmed and peaceful workers 

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...

INDIA: Father dies after ten years of waiting for justice for his son 

  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...

UPDATE (Pakistan): Jirgas and feudal lords continue undermining rule of law in Pakistan 

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...

UPDATE (India): Supreme Court refuses to reconsider President’s decision to allow execution 

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...

UPDATE (India): Supreme Court refuses to reconsider President’s decision to allow execution 

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...

SRI LANKA: Ambalangoda police release tortured children after parents pay Rs. 3000 

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...

INDIA: Indian Supreme Court’s decision devoid of merit

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...

SRI LANKA: Men illegally arrested and tortured by Matale Police, and falsely charged with stealing money 

Men illegally arrested and tortured by Matale Police, and falsely charged with stealing money SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest; torture; false charges ————————...

PAKISTAN: A brother killed his sister on the pretext of honor killing 

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...

SRI LANKA: A mother seeks an impartial inquiry into the mysterious death of her 14-year-old son 

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...

UPDATE (Nepal): A man who was detained by the army in violation of the court order was released 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal, that a 30-year-old man named Upendra Timilsena was released ...

INDIA: Ten years of waiting for justice in West Bengal end with a funeral

The Calcutta High Court last Wednesday took a short time to announce a decision on a matter that had stood before India’s courts for a decade: it granted leave to prosecute police officers alleg...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Supreme Court awarded Rs. 1 million to the family of torture victim 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that on 26 July 2004 the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka awarded one million rupees to the wife and three children of Mr. Lamah...

SRI LANKA: Attempted rape of judge indicative of collapsed rule of law in Sri Lanka

The attempted rape yesterday of a High Court judge in Sri Lanka indicates the extent to which the rule of law has collapsed in the country; a circumstance towards which the Asian Human Rights Commissi...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of a 16-year-old student, Sahan Tharaka, by his teachers and the Assistant Principal of hi...

INDIA: Torture and murder of a woman by armed forces in India 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE) on the exra-judicial killing of a 32-year old woman nam...

NEPAL: Army denies release of detainee despite court order 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal about another attempt by the army to weaken the judiciary by ...

UPDATE ( India): Please send a letter to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Mr. Dhananjay Chatterjee 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently asks you to send a strong letter to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Dhananjoy Chatterjee! According to the exist...