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Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of the Indian non-governmental organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan (...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of the information that several officers of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka has been harassed and intimidated...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the defense lawyer of R.K.L.G. Dingiri Banda who had filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Cour...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed of a letter sent by the Bar Association to the Wattala police station, in which the lawyers complained that police officers have been i...

Dear friends The justice dispensation system in Sri Lanka suffers from the petty mindedness of the Government, which often fails to recognize the necessity for infrastructure for its proper functionin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that seven persons who faced re-arrest by the police after their release from Banke Prison Nepalgunj on 23 June 2004, went...

Dear friends, Please send a letter to the President of India and Supreme Court of India and ask them to commute the death sentence of Mr. Dhananjoy Chatterjee! The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two arbitrary arrest and torture cases from Nepal. According to the information we have received, Satya Narayan Bhagat (32), a membe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned at the death threats to the family of torture victim Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara. According to the information receiv...

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a case of illegal arrest, detention and severe torture has taken place in Gurutalawa, Sri Lanka. Moningal Akila ...

Dear friends, We call for your immediate intervention! The lives of people who were released from prison with a court order are at risk. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received informati...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received additional information about the killing of Irfan Khokhar in Pakistan (Refer to: UA-49-2004 and UP-24-2004). The victim’s f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Kolavan (60 years) was severely tortured at the Thrithala Police Station on 8February 2004. It i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Punchi Kankanamge Nimal (37, a casual worker) was severely tortured by the Horana Police on 6 June 2004. The police...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 6-year-old boy named Talha was allegedly sexually abused by his Quran teacher, Mr. Altaf at the Lajna Mosque on C...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Satya Pal has been detained in Jail for about 24 years as an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) since he...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the death of Mr. Senarath Hettiarchchilage Abeysinghe (39) who was working as a reserve police constable at the Trincomalee Po...

That police in Sri Lanka continue to get away with torture and murder despite enormous publicity was dramatically illustrated this past fortnight, with the killing of an innocent man involving an offi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the murder of Madugoda Ralalage Don Saman Priyantha Guneratna (29) by the officers from the Welipenna Police Station on...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Gulshan Ali, one of the two perpetrators who killed Ms. Hazooran, was arrested by the Drakhan investigative police ...