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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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Rita, a student and rape victim is now suffering from a three year delay of the courts in hearing her case and serv...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of extrajudicial killing of Dehiwatte Gedera Jayathilaka by the police at the Mahawela Police Station on 9 March 2004. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13-year-old girl named Koonjan was killed by her husband, Ahmedan along with other 4 of her in-laws in Kato Bang...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a primary school teacher Ven Harankahawe Chandrawimala (Buddhist monk) has allegedly harassed children physically a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the attempt to cover up the murder of 17-year-old girl Mousumi Ari by the police, magistrate and the doctor.  Mousum...

In October 2003, 17-year-old Mousumi Ari was murdered by her in-laws. Whereas the role of the state personnel should have been to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, in fact they did exactly t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of brutal torture on John Pollage Udays Saman Jayasuriya by the police at Kadugannawa Police Station on 9 March 2004. Accord...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding the information from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on the politically motivated interference in the state-owned...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an email from John P. Abraham, who is involved in the campaign that fights for the rights of the indigenous Adivasi tribals in India...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission reproduces the letter which has been sent to the President of India by Basil Fernando, Executive Director of AHRC today regarding the horrendous practices d...

To Mr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam President of India New Delhi Dear Sir The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned about the horrendous practices during forensic examinations at the government hospitals...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 25-year-old woman named Ms. Shahul was killed by her husband, Mr. Manthar Ali Shar in Bakhshoo Ujan Village, Gar...