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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from local NGO KARAPATAN regarding the killing of human rights activist, Siche Bustamante-Gandinao on 10 March 2007. The victim...

It appears that the enormous public support that the ‘non-functional’ Chief Justice Mr. Iftekhar Mohammad Choudry is receiving throughout the country has obviously surprised and shaken the...

These are sad times for Thailand. Amid all the confusion and uncertainty at the national level, the violence in the south has gone from bad to worse with the killing of nine minivan passengers on Marc...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to draw your attention to the tragic case of Mr. Hazoor Bux Malik. As you should be aware, this case allegedly involves a vicious attack that resulted in the v...

[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...

It has been eight years since the so-called ‘reformation’ was launched. It has also been eight years since extraordinary human rights abuse have nearly been forgotten. Regimes come and go,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further details of the Nandigram massacre on 14 March 2007 (See further: UA-083-2007). The West Bengal state government confirmed 1...

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest and assault of a man by the Ratnapura police. According to the information we have receiv...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding a missing 13 year-old girl from Basanti Colony in Kolkata, West ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that a number of students of the University of Jaffna have been murdered, arbitrarily arrested and disap...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the kidnapping and gang-rape of a 15 year-old-girl by more than a dozen attackers from Town Layyah in Punjab pr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged killing of at least 11 persons in an incident o...

INDIA: AHRC calls for international protest over massacre, questions Indian “democracy” (Hong Kong, March 15, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Thursday called for widespre...

The central and state governments of India ruling 1.2 billion people in the world’s largest democracy boasts of economic and industrial growth, surpassing almost all nations except China. Ideall...

The Asian Human Rights Commission joins in the condemnation of the attack on a minivan in Yala, southern Thailand, which left nine people dead. As has been widely reported, the vehicle was stopped in ...

FORUM-ASIA has joined with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Amnesty International (AI), the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the Centre on Housing Rights and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Neervazhi based in Thrissur, Kerala state that an under trial prisoner was tortured to death whil...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No...

The virtual removal of Chief Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chowdary by President Musharraf and the subsequent curtailing of his freedom of movement by putting him under house arrest has resulted in an  u...

The Cambodian government is to be congratulated on its ratification of the Optional Protocol and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) on 19 January 2007.  In doing do, th...