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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Irfan Khokhar, the information coordinator of Peace Worldwide, a Christian organisation based in Islamabad, Pakistan, was murder...

Dear friends, It has been brought to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Neha Masih, has been raped at her home at Shamas-ul-Haq’s dair...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the Collective Campaign for Peace on the recent arrest, unlawful detention and torture of peaceful protestors and ci...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information below about another “honour killing” in Pakistan. In this case, two teenage girls, Ms. Tahmeena, 17, and...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has just know learned that Mr. K.P.Tissa Kumara, who was severely tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Silva of the Wellipenna Police Station on 3 Februa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of two more cases of police torture in Sri Lanka. It is reported that both victims, Mr. Amal Fernando and Mr. Chandana w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man named Mr. Jinesh died in judicial custody on 20 April 2004 allegedly due to severe torture by the jail ...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sending you updated information about the situation in Nepal. Please send a letter to the Government of Nepal demanding that they restore the p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that the family of honor killing victim is suffering from the police inaction. According to the information received...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the brutal torture by the Srirampur Police on Sri Tarun Mallick (45) on 10 April 2004.  The police officers from ...

Democratic groups in Nepal are now demonstrating in the capital daily, putting lives and limbs at risk demanding an end to ‘regression’–the abolition of parliament by the king, who h...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about extrajudicial killing of Muthuthanthrige Chamal Ranjith Cooray (30) by the police officers at the Modara (Moratuwa) Poli...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on the continued arrests and detentions of demonstrators in Nepal. According to the information, those detained a...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another case of honor killing from Sindh province, Pakistan. A 36-year-old women named Hazooran was killed by her husband,...

Dear friends Further to the letter by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on defective post mortem procedures in West Bengal (see http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2004/639/) and Urgent Appe...

Dear friends Further to the Asian Human Right Commission’s urgent appeal issued yesterday on the dire situation in Nepal [see http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2004/654/], we have received updat...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another case of police torture in Sri Lanka. Halnetthige Nelsan Perera and Halnetthige Lenith Nuwan Peiris ...

Dear friends   The Asian Human Rights Commission is gravely concerned by the large number of innocent civilians being rounded up by the Government of Nepal. There are no records of their arrest, dete...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 27 January 2004, Officer in Charge of Sandeshkhali Police Station, West Bengal, Mr Prabir Banerjee, led a large f...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the illegal arrest, torture and detention of Mohammed Siddique, a lab technician in Malappuram, Kerala, India. Mohamme...