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WORLD: UN Human Rights Council adopts institution-building text

The adoption of on the President’s text is an important achievement. We thank Ambassador de Alba and congratulate him on his untiring efforts over the last year to bring the Council to this point. Wi...

UPDATE (Pakistan): Sindh police threatened gang rape survivor back to her village

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that Sindh police again allegedly threatened a gang-rape survivor to immediately leave the apartment where she a...

PHILIPPINES: No action against soldiers who kill youth; another activist survives attack

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that no action has been taken against the soldiers, including a lieutenant, accused in killing youth leader Nelson A...

INDONESIA: Young man tortured in police station at Tegal, Central Java

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Jakarta regarding a case in which a young man, Kurniawan, was allegedly tortured by police off...

HONG KONG: Chief Justice Sarath Silva will not participate at the City University of Hong Kong Basic Law conference

Earlier the Asian Human Rights Commission shared the Open Letter written to the Acting President and the Dean of the School of Law of the City University regarding the participation of the Chief Justi...

UPDATE (Cambodia): Reporter receives death threat after revealing illegal logging in Kompong Thom province

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that on 16 June 2007, a Radio Free Asia reporter, Lem Pichpisey, who is also known by his on-air pseudonym, Lem Piseth, 38, received ...

INDIA: Two students abducted and disappeared in Andhra Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Andhra Pradesh regarding the case of abduction and disappearance of two students. It is report...

UPDATE (Philippines): Violent attacks on striking workers; police allegedly refused to register and investigate

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that the workers of a Korean-owned garment factory, who had been on strike for nine months, were violently attacked ...

INDIA: The National Human Rights Commission of India is confused about its mandate

The statements made by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India at the 5th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions appeared as if the NHRC is confused about its own mandate. T...

PAKISTAN: One journalist killed and another missing after arrest

June 17, 2007, was bad day for journalists in Pakistan as one was shot dead and another was arrested by the law enforcement agencies and has been missing since then. His whereabouts are not known and ...

INDONESIA: How the Culture of Impunity Breeds Violence

The shooting of the villagers in Pasuruan Rajawali Nusantara Corporation (RNC), having links with the Indonesian Naval Forces – Navy’s Eastern Fleet in Surabaya, cultivated a disputed land...

UPDATE(Pakistan): Prime perpetrator involved in severance of penis case is still free under the protection of a Minister

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that three of alleged perpetrators of the severing of Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik’s (24) penis, were arrested in ear...

INDIA: Harassment and assault of a couple by the local police in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, regarding the case of a couple who was assaulted and abuse...

PHILIPPINES: Police’ vehicle used in forcibly abducting a man in General Santos City

Dear friends, The AHRC writes with deep concern regarding the forcible abduction and subsequent disappearance of a man, Arnold Aliman, in General Santos City on 27 May 2007. Witnesses have revealed th...

INDONESIA: Alleged threats to lawyers in Medan by military personnel

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the public threats on two advocates from the Medan Legal Aid Institute (LBH Medan) by six members of the Indon...

UPDATE (Philippines): Further delay in review of death sentences, torture complaints

Dear friends, The AHRC writes to inform you of yet another delay in the intermediate review of the death sentences of five men, known as the “Abadilla 5”, by the Court of Appeals (CA). In our previo...

THAILAND: Investigators cannot be allowed to override prosecutors

According to an article in The Nation newspaper of June 12, the attorney general of Thailand has proposed to increase the powers of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) under the justice mini...

HONG KONG: Concerns regarding the participation of Chief Justice Sarath Silva of Sri Lanka in a conference entitled “Hong Kong Basic Law: The First Ten Years and its Future”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  June 18, 2007  AHRC-OL-021-2007 An Open Letter to the Acting President and the Dean of the School of Law of the City University, Hong Kong 1. Professor Richard Yan-ki HO (Acti...

ASIA: When is an enforced disappearance “clarified”?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2007 ALRC-OL-001-2007 An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances Mr. Santiago Corcuera Chairperson Working Group on enforced and i...

MALAYSIA: Altantuya’s murder trial: judicial independence of Malaysia on trial 

We, the undersigned, express our grave concerns regarding the sudden twist of events in the murder trial of Mongolian national, Altantuya Shaariibuu, which has led to an unfair delay in the court proc...