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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four individuals were arbitrarily arrested on 1 February 2004 by the security forces in Bajura (west part), Nepal, ...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the arbitrary shooting of the Gampola police into a crowd, killing young Suranga Sampath. The police have further failed to conduc...
Dear Friends We are forwarding you an appeal from Hotline Asia regarding the tragic rape and murder of a 9 year old girl, which incident was used to provoke religious intolerance and violence agains...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that in an arbitrary act by the government of Maharashtra, the diet for foreign prisoners has been changed, and they ar...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on 9 January 2004 informed the Sri Lankan government that, in pursuant of Rule 86 of the committees rules of procedure, the state party (Sri Lanka) ...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just learned that there was an attempt on the life of Mr. Michael Anthony Emanuel Fernando (Tony) early this morning (2 February 2004). Mr. Fe...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Dalit teachers were transferred from Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India, on 3 December 2003, for objecting...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu that the Immaculate Conception Sisters in Thirunagar, Madurai District was demo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the murder of two social activists, Sarita and Mahesh Kant in Gaya (Bihar) on 24 January 2004. The victims were shot b...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the police intimidation against the victims of the police attack in Baddegama village, Madahapola. On 31 December 2003...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned with the death threats received by Mr. James T. Godwin in Mahim, Mumbai, India. Mr. Godwin, a person who has been challengi...
Dear friends Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of brutal torture of Jayasekara Vithanage Saman Priyankara, 32, at the Matale Police Station. The officers poured boiling water o...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the gang rape case of a 16 year old girl Miss. X (Name withheld). She was abducted by a wealthy man David Kaiser (21...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the situation of 73 workers of the Jewelarts International in Maithree Mawatha, Ekala, Sri Lanka. According to the info...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to draw your attention on the case of Kebbeduwa Gamage Prabhath Neel Chaminda, 28, who is arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the pol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reproduces below the letter written by the AHRC to the president of India regarding the eviction of 7,000 Untouchables in West Bengal. In the ope...
Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is referring you to two cases of torture, illegal arrest and illegal detention about which complaints have been made to the National Human Rights ...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one man was tortured by the police on 8 January 2004 because he gave up illegal liquor business. In the past the AHR...
As people read obituaries and find out about the death of someone they know, the first thing many think to do is visit the person and pay their last respects to the dead body. The body becomes a sacre...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) in Nepal that a young human rights activist, Mr. Chet Prakash Khatri, was...
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