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Following a spate of well-orchestrated attacks on individuals, properties, mosques and schools of the Ahmadiah sect, and demands by several Islamic organizations to the President of Indonesia to have ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights organisation in Uttar Pradesh,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man by Kandana police on 6 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. Police allegedly beat him while r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four police officers from the Wanathawilluwa Police Station arrested a farmer from his house and took him away duri...

The last few days saw developments in trade union protests against the attacks on employees of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). Ever since the incident that was provoked by Minister Mervyn...

The taking of oaths by members of parliament on March 17th marks an important moment in the struggle against the military dictatorship which has caused a state of anarchy in Pakistan. Legally speaking...

The police in Davao City arrested three men suspected of robbery and a few days later, on March 14, they were presented to the city’s mayor, Rodrigo Duterte in the presence of the local press an...

The cultural heritage of cruelty and repression (Paper 2) **************************** The organisation of pre-modern Sri Lankan society was based on the caste system Basil Fernando These days there a...

On 13 March, the Bangladesh Government’s spokespersons made their official comments on the human rights report published by the Department of State of the government of the United States of America. ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls upon the Chinese government to inquire into reports that have received worldwide attention of attacks against Tibetan protesters in Lhasa and Sangchu Cou...

A media report implies serious questions about the credibility of Bangladesh’s criminal justice system, including the investigation, prosecution and the judiciary, as well as the qualifications of th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that a national police commissioner allegedly ordered the punishment of Pring Pov as Pring refused to follow an ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-PAP-002-2008 March 14, 2008 A Paper by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Caste of mind and the ‘silly season’ (The cultural heritage of cruelty and re...

In the investigations into cases of killings and suspicious deaths, skills and training are extremely essential in dealing with the investigation. Forensic examinations are carried out not only to est...

Reporters without Borders is concerned about the fate of five Tamil journalists arrested by anti-terrorist police in Colombo in the past six days and urges the Sri Lankan authorities to explain why th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the case of a young woman who was arrested coming into Burma from neighbouring Thailand and charged with illegal immig...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Mohammad Khan Lund, a human rights activist is presently in Deeplo Jail after being implicated in 57 cases alle...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in his report to the Seventh UN Human Rights Council has expressed serious concerns regarding the right to food in India. The report dated February 29,...

(Hong Kong, March 12, 2008) The wife of abducted Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit on Tuesday spoke to the United Nations about his continued disappearance, and presented a report on tortu...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, regarding the alleged fake encounter killing of a man by t...