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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 25 March 2007 an Inspector working at the Office of the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Negombo alleged...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh regarding the al...

Monoranjan Ghosh, a resident of Gopalpur village in South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal, was threatened by a money-extorting gang at least half a dozen times. Monoranjan was assaulted several ti...

A radical mosque and its affiliated seminaries have greatly increased their influence in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan after the mass protests throughout the country against President Mushar...

In response to the shooting of a group of youths in the south of Thailand on April 9, an army officer has been quoted as saying that the armed militia personnel were justified to fire in self defence....

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alert, a human rights organisation working in Imphal, Manipur regarding the alle...

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 with regard to the death of Mr. Hay...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of a man named Mr. Seyed Zabed Hossain by the Khan Jahan Ali police in Khulna distr...

On April 9 the King of Thailand called upon a new group of superior judges to ensure that they “maintain justice”. The King pointed out that more than ever public confidence in the judicia...

The Sri Lankan government’s propaganda war regarding Amnesty International’s campaign based on an innocent slogan in which they call on all Sri Lankans to ‘play by the rules’ is reminiscent of Don...

(Hong Kong, April 10, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Tuesday deplored the announcement that the emergency regulations in force across Thailand’s southernmost provinces are to ...

CIVIL MONITORING COMMISSION (CMC) Monitoring involuntary Disappearances, Abductions, Extra Judicial Killings, Extortionsand Arbitrary arrests and detentions in Sri Lanka #72 Bankshall Street Colombo 1...

Criminalisation of politics in India is a growing problem, despite legal attempts to address it. In 2003 a law was introduced to prohibit the election of criminals or alleged criminals to state or cen...

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 death of a 16 year ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a list of name of 81 persons who disappeared between August 2006 to 20 March 2007. This list was documented by the Civil Monitoring ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information about the custodial death of Mr. Sajedur Rahman Sarkar Sajid (please see UA-190-2006 and UP-147-2006). We wer...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to inform you that on Monday, 2 April 2007, the criminal charge against a man who satirised state media in Burma was dropped by the local cou...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Working Group on Justice for Peace that the post mortem inquest into the deaths of 78 persons in Narathiwat, southern Th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the killing of a 15-year-old boy by soldiers in southern Thailand. Abukoree Kasor was shot dead while he travelled...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Uttar Pradesh, the PVCHR, regarding the alleged attack on the Dalit community by the upper cas...