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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has information of two more alleged killings by the police in Burma that appear to have been successfully covered up. Although in both cases comp...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the gruesome stabbing unto death of a 27-year-old woman by Army personnel or members of the Special Task Force (ST...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from SUARAM, a human rights organization in Malaysia, that 228 asylum seekers and refugees from western Burma were arbit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two cases relating to torture and abduction allegedly committed by the Young Communist League (YCL) which was affil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is continuing its series of appeals on the alleged torture, abductions and killing committed or organised by police officers in Kalasin, northeas...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one woman was denied to file First Information Report (FIR) the District Police Office and the District Administrat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forced abduction and disappearance of Mihindukulasuriya Laxman Suresh Fernando by armed men in Munnakkara,...

For a related article please see: http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2007statements/1108/ The plight of a teen aged girl facing the death sentence in Saudi Arabia, due to an incident that ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of persons have been rounded up and detained at army camps in southern Thailand under emergency regu...

(We reproduce below a letter written to the editor of the Daily News of Sri Lanka pointing out the inaccurate and misleading information published in two articles on the case of Rizana Nafeek) For fur...

An effective witness protection law that is founded on a genuine attempt to cope with human rights violation is an integral part of a functioning criminal justice system. After years of negotiations, ...

(Hong Kong, July 11, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Wednesday published an analysis on the shortcomings of the new Witness Protection Law in Indonesia. The Indonesian law was promul...

(Hong Kong, July 11, 2007) ‘As the deadline for the filing of the appeal, which is July 16, is approaching rapidly, and as the Sri Lankan government has not lived up to its obligation of defendi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KontraS (The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence) regarding the illegal arrest and alleged extra-...

The Sri Lankan government has not yet decided to pay the legal fees for the appeal from the death sentence of Rizana Nafeek while the deadline for the appeal is on July 16, 2007; nor has the governmen...

The interim prime minister of Thailand, General Surayud Chulanont, has in recent days insisted that he will push ahead a raft of reforms to policing in Thailand. Two bills passed by his military-appro...

(Hong Kong, July 9, 2007) A new publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) documents the “serious threat” facing constitutionalism in Thailand under the September 19 coup group....

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the continued harassment and intimidation of a torture victim who was allegedly severely assaulted by the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged brutal torture of four persons by the Meherpur Sadar police in Meherpur dis...

(UPDATE on Appeal – The Asian Human Rights Commission is encouraged by the initial response to this appeal. We encourage more persons to participate by writing their reflections and sending them...