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Dear friends, In addition to what has been widely reported, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the plight of justices, lawyers and activists who had been unlaw...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police arbitrarily confiscated all copies of a magazine without the court’s decision in Phnom Penh and th...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour  said today she is alarmed over the suspension of fundamental rights and  imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan. Pakistan has...

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and its sister organization the Asian Human Rights Commission welcome the proposed visit by the Special Rapporteur for Torture, Dr. Manfred Novak. It comes at a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of continuing threats made on human rights activists and widows of activists who are helping victims. On November 2, activist O...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information regarding the extrajudicial killing of five youths at Thavasikkulam near Vavuniya town on 4 November 2007 in Sr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a policeman arbitrarily shot and injured a man on 9 October 2007 in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta. The policeman did not id...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-257-2007 November 05, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Appeal to the international community to take a firm stand for democracy and human ri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that on 4 July 2007, a court in Sihanoukville ordered the release of 13 men who were arrested in April 2007 whil...

Dear friends, Further to our recent update on court orders that at least 300 men in southern Thailand could not be held at so-called “vocational training” camps against their will (UP-123-...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that an activist, Ruel Munasque, who was forcibly taken by soldiers on 24 October 2007, has disappeared while in their custo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by yet another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in West Bengal, India. According ...

movement On 30 October 2007, the Constitutional Court of Indonesia read out its verdict on the constitutional review of the Narcotics Law that provides for the death penalty in several articles. The c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the requests to appeal against imprisonment of the “Hinthada 6” and another human rights defender from the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that although over 300 men have been allowed to go free from a number of army camps in the south of Thailand after court orders that...

The government of General Musharraf is planning to amend the Army Act of 1952 empowering the state intelligence agencies to keep suspected persons in custody as long as they require without producing ...

Basil Fernando (A presentation for the International Seminar on Freedom from Torture – Challenges we face for the rehabilitation and prevention on the occasion on the 25th anniversary of the Rehabili...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the Bulathsinhala police who failed to conduct an investigation into the complaint of a man who was stabbed by...

(Hong Kong, October 31, 2007) Three courts in southern Thailand on Tuesday ruled that the authorities could not hold hundreds of men in vocational training camps there against their will, thus upholdi...

Representatives of several human rights organizations in Pakistan have visited the hospitals where hundreds of victims of the October 18 are being treated. The bomb blasts occurred during the welcomin...