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The statement by Amnesty International in its annual report for 2004 to the effect that Sri Lanka is experiencing “an improved human rights situation” is deeply disturbing and patently inc...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the torture and inhuman treatment of a prisoner, Kalpeliyanege Priyantha Anuruddha Shammi, by prison officer Rajive at the ...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that torture victim Kurundukarage Eranjana Sampath was arrested on fabricated charges by the Officer In Charge (OIC) of the T...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the Dalit Human Rights Monitoring (DHRM) on the brutal attack on Dalits settlement in the Kalapatti village of Coimb...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on the case of the two teenage girls killed in the instance of “honour killings” (FA-12-2004). Appare...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that Ms. Samina Khokhar, the sister of Irfan Khokhar, has received a death threat from unknown men who are believed to be co...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the information that two individuals who were ordered to be released from the Central Jail Nepalgunj by the appellate court on sep...

Dear friends, A number of human rights groups have informed the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that 19-year-old student Javaid Anjum was abducted on17 April 2004 and then severely tortured for f...

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...