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Dear friends, The Administrative Court in Thailand has turned down a petition challenging the decision of the Royal Thai Police and its commissioner general to reappoint the five policemen who are all...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest under fabricated charge of an uncle and grandfather of a 3-year-old child who was knocked...

[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...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan made an order yesterday (May 7) suspending the judicial panel hearing into the accusation made by the military regime against the country’s suspended Chief Justice ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission sent an Urgent Appeal on February 26, 2007 (UA-063-2007) to several government authorities to which a reply was received on May 7, 2007 from you as the Additional Sec...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that the husband of a political activist, Usman Ali (40), was shot dead at a public market in Pikit, North Cotabato ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 2 May 2007 at around 5:30 pm, a local journalist named Chim Chenda, who works for Kampuchea Thmei (New Cambodia)...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on an alleged killing of a young man in Kalasin, northeast Thailand, by the police (UA-136-2007). We have so far documented o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received update information regarding the alleged brutal assault of Mr. Dhanawardena by inmates and trainees of the police training college i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about two men in Burma who have been imprisoned for allegedly possessing videos showing the wedding of the daug...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about an alleged torture case by police officers of Wattegama Police Station. P.K.W. Wijesinghe was summoned to the polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged serious threats and intimidation against a human rights defender and journa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the cou...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a local human rights group ODHIKAR that their acting director, Mr. ASM Nasiruddin Elan, had been serious...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the horrible livin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal murder of Mr. Suherman, for reasons yet unknown, by Police Officers of the Medan District Police on...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian au...

Kawan-kawan, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) telah menerima informasi mengenai pembunuhan brutal terhdap Tuan Suherman, atas alasan yang belum diketahui, yang dilakukan oleh petugas Kepolisian Wi...

As the country’s prosecution service has long been confronted by the overloading of cases, as well as insufficient resources and manpower, the police commission and justice department have decid...

(Hong Kong, May 4, 2007) The 2006 country report on Thailand released by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was on Friday released online in Thai. The 33-page report, “The return of the ar...