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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) regarding the forcible abduction and disappearance of two men, Satkunarajah Sasindran ...
With the conclusion of the legislative and local elections in the Philippines on May 14, the extent of deaths, violence and corrupt practices that have occurred during this electoral exercise is extre...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the inhuman treatment by the police towards a 29-year-old man, Mr. B Sumith Priyantha Fernando, on 26 March 20...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand under the Emerg...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that another political activist, Orly Marcellana, narrowly avoided an attempt on his life on 10 May 2007. Marcellana is the ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a male teacher Prasad Janaka of the Saralankara School in Galle, who was accused in the Magistrate’s Court Ca...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-100-2007 May 13, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns violence unleashed by the military regime leading t...
[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 36-year-old man, Mihindukulasuriya Lal Fernando, by several members of the Negombo Pol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 53-year-old man, Mr. Premasiri Uduwatte, was allegedly threatened, arrested and briefly detained in lieu of his s...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is very concerned about the lack of progress in the investigation prosecution of three army officers identified by a court as responsible for the...
As the movement to defend the suspended Chief Justice and the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan has gathered momentum in all part of the country as demonstrated by mammoth crowds congregating ...
In 2005, the Phnom Penh Court convicted and sentenced two men — Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun — to 20 years in prison for the murder of renowned labour union leader Chea Vichea in 2004. In...
Justice S. Anandacoomaraswamy Chairman Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka No. 36 Kynsey Road Colombo 08 Sri Lanka Tel: +94 11 2694925 Fax: +94 11 2694924 Email: sechrc@sltnet.lk Dear Mr. Justice An...
On May 5, 2007, a man told the media how he had been brutally tortured as part of a police investigation inside Camp Rafael Crame in Quezon City, the national headquarters of the Philippine National P...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the Sihanoukville governor, Say Hak, lodged a file complaint against Mr. Chhim Savuth, a human rights inves...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had previously received information that the Ratanakiri provincial governor allegedly rejected the prosecutor’s decision, made on 16 Novemb...
Mr. I. G. Pushpakumara (30) a navy officer said to be assigned to VIP security who was on home leave was beaten to death by a mob who believed that he was trying to escape after committing the theft o...
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