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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information on the case of Ko Htin Kyaw, one of the persons who was illegally detained in Burma since August 2007 for being...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) that a man was dead on the way to a hospital after being beaten by ...

Attacks on journalists continue unabated despite of massive protests from local and international agencies and despite all sorts of talk by the spokesmen for the government about stopping human rights...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Nationa...

The Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked and outraged at the brutal assault of former TNL News Director and currently Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) employee Namal Perera and a friend this evening (...

(Hong Kong, July 2, 2008) Random interviews conducted by a researcher for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have revealed that the plight of the Abadilla Five is a shared experience and common ...

This story is not only my story. Many other Dalit human rights activists have the same experience as me. When I talked about my life with other Dalits human rights defenders in Gujarat, we realised th...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 27 June 2008 SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release: State media level dangerous allegation Free Media Movement exp...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

The New Age, a Dhaka-based national English daily, has published a report yesterday (26 June 2008) quoting a former General of Bangladesh Army, who has launched a political party during the ongoing St...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-180-2008 June 27, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  SOUTH KOREA: Government’s failure to realise people’s health A public announcement ...

Mr. Elmore Perera, a 74-year-old lawyer who has devoted most of his time to public interest litigation was suspended yesterday, 26th June from his practice for seven years by the Supreme Court of Sri ...

June 26th was the United Nation’s Day in . As far as Sri Lanka is concerned the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights did nothing to commemorate this day. Instead the statements from ...

Today, 26 June, is a historical day for all mankind. Today, everyone around the world is commemorating theInternational Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, everyone is coming together t...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 25 June 2008 Police recently labeled by government as “treacherous”; its editor continually threatened SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo (FMM/IFEX) –...

(Hong Kong, June 27, 2008) Several human rights organisations held meetings and other activities to highlight the problem of torture and the sufferings of the torture victims in several locations in S...

I remember watching two movies where the word silence played an eerie role. One was the “Silent Scream,” the other, the “Silence of the Lambs.” In both movies, violence took place with the vi...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) At the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2008, the ambassador of Thaila...

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Giasuddin Mandol is an iron scrap dealer from the North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal. ...