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The police officers who were involved in torturing eight persons of Pir Jo Goth, Khairpur district, Sindh, in their custody at three different police stations are enjoying impunity two months after th...

16 years ago today, the Cambodian warring factions representing their country and 17 concerned countries, including Cambodia’s neighbours, other Asian countries and western countries, gathered in Par...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Gramya Sansthan, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh regarding the case of two women who w...

Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is gravely concerned for the safety and wellbeing of peaceful demonstrators including monks, arrested or missing after the demonstrations of August and September 2...

A. INTRODUCTION To the casual observer, Singapore appears to be a cosmopolitan city-state with a functioning democracy based on the rule of law. After a century as a British colony, Singapore became s...

(Hong Kong, October 22, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission has published a new book entitled ‘Sri Lanka’s Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System.’ The book consists of four chapt...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the prolonged and brutally torture of a man by the Kalutara South police, Sri Lanka on 14 October 2007. The po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on a man by several policemen of the Rakwana police allegedly for refusing to pay a bribe solicite...

On the night of October 18, 2007, two blasts occurred at the welcoming procession of thousands of people, arranged for arrival of Benazir Bhutto, the Chairperson of the Pakistan People Party, after he...

On the 27th October the day for the disappeared will be commemorated by the Families of the Disappeared and Right to Life together with the Asian Human Rights Commission. The monument for the disappea...

Quite regularly reports appear in the press of persons in police custody, having tried to attack the police with grenades or other weapons, being shot dead. The Gampaha police are reported to have kil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from DASAN Human Rights Center, a human rights oranisation in South Korea that a mentally handicapped minor was kept in ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the police, particularly the Task Force Usig (TFU), to promptly afford necessary protection and...

Last week, almost exactly on the same day, two victims of crime expressed in public their fear of their attackers long after the offences had taken place. The first one was Ms Chem Sopheap, 35, a vend...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from SUARAM, a human rights organisation in Malaysia that on 10 November 2007 the police cracked down on a peaceful demon...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the family of U Than Lwin, who was assaulted in June after leading a prayer meeting in Burma for the release of politi...

Three months after its last hearing, the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (HRC) has not fixed a date to recommence the inquiry into the disappearance of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Nadaraja...

COLOMBO, 13 OCTOBER 2007 I wish to thank His Excellency the President for inviting me to visit Sri Lanka and the Government of Sri Lanka for facilitating my program.   I would like to thank Minister...

BURMA: Webpage launched for jailed “Hinthada 6” (Hong Kong, October 16, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Tuesday launched a new webpage on the case of six jailed human rights def...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another incident whereby four activists, two of them were reported by us to have already been threatened a year ago, ...