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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...

APRIL 27, 2007: (Update to LRWC statement of March 19, 2007) LRWC deplores President Musharraf’s March 9, 2007 suspension of Iftikar Mohamed Chaudhry from his office as Chief Justice of the Supr...

Dear friends, The Working Group on Justice for Peace (Thailand) has informed the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) about the alleged horrific torture of a 23-year-old teacher named Sukri Ar-dam in ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from NGO Advocacy Forum Nepal that the District Police Office (DPO) and the District Administration Office (DAO) in Bank...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the unlawful arrest and brutal murder of Mr. Marsudi Tri Wijaya, for reasons that are as yet unknown, allegedl...

AS-093-2007 May 3, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission CAMBODIA: Dysfunctional criminal justice system has led to unfair trials and impunity for the mastermind behind Chea VicheaR...

Thank you for your reply of 30 March 2007 to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) concerning the case of Somphon Dechanuphap and three others. As we informed you, the case has been going on in a c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received important news about the group of Burmese human rights defenders who were attacked on 18 April 2007 with the backing and involvement...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged fabricated charges against Mr. J.D.Jayatilaka and his wife which were instigated in from 2001. Mrs. Ja...

As the campaign period is ongoing and elections will be held on May 14 there is also an increasingly alarming trend of election-related violence. Targeted killings and ambushes of sectoral and local c...

The government of Punjab province, no doubt through the instructions of the government of the military regime of General Musharaff, is using some flimsy excuses to thwart the traveling arrangements of...

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an updated list of persons disappeared in Sri Lanka from the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC), a local human rights organization in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to inform you about an alleged false case against a 65-year-old woman in Wanathayilluwa, by officers from the Excise Department in Puttalam w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is repor...

In the latest move against the supporters of Chief Justice Iftehkar Chaudry a Supreme Court lawyer, Mr. Ali Ahmed Kurd has been detained by the Quetta police at the district court. The detention comes...