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SRI LANKA: UN agency concerned for over 10,000 families escaping violence 

8 August 2008 – The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern today over the safety of thousands of families fleeing escalating violence in northern Sri Lanka between Government forces and...

INDIA: Lack of accountability has corrupted the judiciary

By recommending the impeachment of a High Court judge, the Chief Justice of India has revived a dead debate concerning the Indian judiciary. On August 2, 2008 in a letter addressed to the Prime Minist...

PAKISTAN: Two persons murdered after an anchor person proposed the widespread lynching of Ahmadi sect followers

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an anchor person working for a prominent television channel has incited Muslims in Pakistan to kill – to deva...

BURMA: A man charged for having contact with overseas radio station

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information on the case of a man who has been arrested and charged in Burma for having had contact with an overseas...

BANGLADESH: Whereabouts of a man remain unrevealed after being arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion in Barisal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that thewhereabouts of Md. Shafik Ullah Monayem, a politician, has not been known for 9 months following an arr...

UPDATE (Philippines): Abadilla Five’s petition to review conviction suffers further delay

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding further delays in the conclusion of the Petition for Review on Certiorari that the Abadilla Five has filed. We pre...

INDIA: Fifteen-year-old girl abducted and sold while police did nothing

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh that a 15-year-old girl was abducted by human t...

INDIA: A schizophrenic man is detained in solitary confinement without medical treatment

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through its local contacts in Rajasthan that a man, Roy Varghese, has been detained in solitary confinement in prison for the l...

PAKISTAN: Children of Dr. Afia Siddiqui are removed from Bagram and their whereabouts are unknown and Dr. Afia is denied permission to attend court proceedings

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the two children of Dr. Afia Sidiqui, who is currently in custody in the United States on charges of assault and attempting to murder me...

PAKISTAN: Three bodies of the five women buried alive have been removed to destroy vital evidence

The Balochistan police, in a bid to destroy any available evidence, have removed three of the bodies of the five women who were buried alive in Baba Kot, Jafferabad. (For details please refer to the A...

SRI LANKA: dismissal of a former district Court Judge, Mr. Soratha Bandaranayake is declared to be in violation of the ICCPR by the UNHRC

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about View of the UNHRC in the matter of the dismissed judge, Mr. Soratha Bandaranayake On the communication bearing No. 1376/2005, in the case o...

CAMBODIA: The Cambodian government must address the election flaws

In 1993, as part of its administration of Cambodia, the UN organized an election of a new government for that country. Since then Cambodia has organized, by itself, three periodic parliamentary electi...

SRI LANKA: Police allegedly hung a man upside down and poured the juice of chilies in his eyes and nose in order to extract information

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was severely tortured by Panadura South Police while he was illegally detained in police custody on August 21...

SRI LANKA: The UN Human Rights Committee holds JSC to have violated the rights of a judge

The UN Human Rights Committee in a View expressed under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Civil and Political Rights held that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has viola...

SRI LANKA: Another case of stupid, silly and nonsensical policing – The case of Prasantha, illegal arrest, detention and torture by the Panadura police

Prasantha Pradeep Kumara Francis (30) is married, an electrician, a resident of No 09, 3rd Lane, Akkara 35, Ballapitiya, Horana. On 21.08.2008 at about 9:00 am Prasantha went to the Panadura Police s...

PHILIPPINES: A man falsely charged with terrorism

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, whom a prosecutor had falsely charged for committing acts of terror, has been continuously held in detention for...

THAILAND: Emergency decree must be lifted from Bangkok and south alike

The Asian Human Rights Commission has vehemently opposed and campaigned for the lifting of the emergency decree over the southernmost provinces of Thailand since it was introduced in mid-2005. Now in ...

INDONESIA: Eight people in Aceh convicted of disseminating pamphlets

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that eight human rights activists accused of disseminating pamphlets on the allegation of land expropriations were sente...

PAKISTAN: The burial of five women while still alive in Balochistan, Pakistan

Dr. Yakin Ertürk United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women C/o OHCHR-UNOG 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND Fax: +41 22 917 9016 Dear Dr. Ertürk Re: The burial of five women while We are ...

PAKISTAN: Government should release all disappeared persons in custody of police and intelligence services

The forced disappearances of political opponents by the state intelligence services continues in spite of newly elected government’s claims that the issue will be solved when the coalition partn...