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In a follow up development of the arrest of four teenagers and a man on blasphemy charge the representative of the Punjab provincial government, Mr. Syed Saqlain Shah, a member of the National Assembl...

Background The Human Rights Council will be addressing human rights education in its upcoming 10th session (Geneva, 2?7 March 2009). It will discuss specifically a Declaration on Human Rights Educatio...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that we have received information of detainees being tortured and ill-treated by prison officials in Abepura Prison, Papu...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Mobile Brigadier (Brimob) Unit of Central Java Regional Police attacked Sukolilo villagers in Kedomulyo, Pati...

The alleged killers of a number of people, including a 70-year-old man, have been released from remand prison on the orders of another civilian. The man who arranged their release is the brother of a ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Vilgamuva police officers have assaulted a school child and arbitrarily detained him in custody. The Officer-in- ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the statement made by ten UN experts on the 9th February, 2009 expressing deep concern at the suppression of criticism and unabated impunity.  In the first ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has closely followed with growing concern the increasing number of lese-majesty cases being filed against people from all walks of life in Thailand for written...

LAHORE, February 12, 2009: Five Ahmadis detained on charges of blasphemy in Layyah district have been held without virtually any proof or witnesses, the Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said on Thursday...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP) that a group of soldiers and police raided the branch office of WGJ...

To: asie@rsf.org Reporters Without Borders Mr. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa Media and Information Minister Colombo Sri Lanka Paris, 10 February 2009 Dear Minister, We are dismayed to learn that the BBC ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you in your capacity as the Director of Internal Security under the Internal Security Act 2008 to protest in the strongest terms a recent report ...

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr. ...

The office of the Working Group on Justice for Peace – Pattani was searched by a group of 20 police and army officers in the early hours of February 8. The officers arrived in three pick-up trucks an...

05.02.2009 *The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation prevailing in Sri Lanka. The disregard for humanitarian standards shown by comba...

The long bloody civil war in Sri Lanka seems to be climaxing in a surge of violence. Like many in this region, I have been following these developments with growing alarm. A military outcome is possib...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Savitribhai Phule Women’s Association and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) ab...

IRIN, is the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. COLOMBO, 6 February 2009 (IRIN) – Some 1,600 civilians escaped fighting in the ...

The interview can be viewed on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7lza-rVu9k On February 5, 2009, Fr. Frank Nally, former Columban priest missionary in the Phillippines and human Rights acti...

The federal government has imposed section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), in Islamabad, the federal capital of Pakistan, for a period of two months. This has been done in the face of possi...