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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been confirmed that three activists of a union who had been detained were finally deported from South Korea in the early morning of 13 Decemb...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is saddened to inform you that yet another list of killings and disappearances for the month of November 2007 has been reported in Sri Lanka. Whi...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human Rights Watch forwa...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a priest, Rev. Eleuterio J. Revollido, whom we reported to have been facing continuing threats, has once again been exp...
(Washington, DC, December 18, 2007) — Five leading international human rights organizations today called upon the Cambodian government to respect its international human rights commitments as w...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a journalist working for Koh Santepheap newspaper, Try Vantha, 46, has been threatened by a senior official of the social affair...
Iftehkar Mhd. Choudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan who was dismissed from office by President Pervez Musharraf after the imposition of the emergency rule, has been recognised as the lawyer of the y...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is launching a petition to the Sri Lankan government to support a field presence by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has s...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that around 300 families of indigenous villagers occupying a land since 1918 in Lima Puluh Kota Municipality, West Sumat...
(Geneva, December 12, 2007) The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) on Wednesday called on the United Nations to establish a special study and strategy group to deal comprehensively with the growing hu...
Public Statement AI Index: ASA 28/009/2007 Amnesty International condemns the arrests of human rights lawyers, activists and members of the public in the past few days as they exercised their right ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the executive magistrate in Varanasi distr...
In a statement read at the UN Human Rights Council on 11 December 2007, the ambassador of Myanmar (Burma), U Wunna Maung Lwin, said that, “On 31 October 2007, the Government of Myanmar has estab...
The Asian Human Rights Commission strongly supports the call for a human rights monitoring mission by the United Nations as a measure to resuscitate the severely damaged criminal investigation capacit...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from reliable sources that four police officers tortured and robbed a keeper of a Buddhist Centre, Muon Ham (42), on 8 December 2007 ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, Morshed Rana, died in police custody following his arrest on false charges on 28 October 2007. The police tried ...
The appeal case of Rizana Nafeek is continuing to be heard in the Appellate Court in Saudi Arabia. Rizana Nafeek, who was 17 years old at the time when she was accused of murdering a baby of four mont...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to provide you the update regarding the case of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). ...
The year 2007 was marked by constitutional and judicial crises; the President as the military leader used the state power against the judiciary, the Constitution of the country, the legal fraternity a...
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