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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the uninterrupted campaign of the District Magistrate against the human rights organisations within hi...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to share with you the constitutional petition filed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the Sup...

A legal professional is not above the law. A solicitor in Hong Kong was sentenced to imprisonment recently. It was alleged that the solicitorÂ’s client who had lodged a complaint about a stockbroker h...

Shocking details are emerging about the manner in which the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudry, was requested to resign from his post, and how when he refused he was physically restrained form leaving th...

The government has recently announced that police powers will be granted to the military by way of further emergency regulations. When the BBC Sinhala Service questioned the government spokesman, Mini...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent naming and detention of two more suspects in the ongoing, yet highly unpredictable, investi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the teacher who was charged with assaulting a student has yet to be suspended from his post. In addition, t...

In the midst of the judicial crisis the government has opened yet another front in the hopes of exercising damage control in an attack on a television station that has been airing open discussions on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source about the alleged torture of a man by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Kalutara divisi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13 year-old boy has been excessively assaulted by a school teacher in Gedakawela, Ratnapura on 2 March 2007. Desp...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the illegal three-day po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has since last year documented and closely followed the case of a teenager who appears to have been blatantly killed by the police in Kalasin pro...

Over two and a half years have passed since Kietisak Thitboonkrong was found tortured to death and dumped in a rural area of northeastern Thailand. Investigations by the National Human Rights Commissi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source of four cases relating to intimidation and assaults allegedly committed by the Maoists. Details of each ca...

Dear friends, The Asian Human rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged wrongful arrest and brutal torture of an innocent sales clerk named Md. Munsur Ali who was detaine...

The grave problems regarding the lack of credible investigations into human rights violations in Sri Lanka continues as the government makes threats to expel foreign diplomats who call for such inquir...

The Kathmandu Post Chronicling the truth http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=106686 By MANJUSHREE THAPA The essay form–now fancifully called literary nonfiction or creative nonfictionÂ...

The following press release was issued by the Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka on April 17, 2007 – http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/index.php?action=con_news_full&id=523&section=news (W...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 39 year-old bus driver was allegedly tortured by a traffic police officer near the Waikkala Railway Gate on 11 March 2007.  T...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that no criminal charges have not been filed against the police officers of the Moratuwa police station responsible ...