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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Human Rights Alert (HRA) based in Manipur, India, regarding an alleged incident of shooting ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local organisation PARRDS (Partnership for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development Services) that a farming leader na...

11th February 2007 Odhikar From 12 January to 10 February 2007 during the total 29 persons have been reportedly killed and 52027 persons have been arrested. Of the 29 people killed by law enforc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement which appeared in the Phnom Penh Post:  AHRC Fernando: “rule of law in Cambodia is being ...

On February 8, 2007 a leading politician and a member of the cabinet, Anura Bandaranaike, made a statement in Parliament in which he said that he had received several death threats. He said that “Thr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of an unacceptable delay of justice in the case of a young man, Udayanga Perera, who was arrested and subjected to severe tortu...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of an alleged unprovoked attack by the Sri Lankan Navy on two groups of six fishermen from Negombo on January 27 and again on 28 Janu...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) regarding yet another alleged case of abduction, illegal detenti...

Any intelligent talk about corruption and malpractice in a justice system must start by recognising that it is by definition systemic. The way that judges, prosecutors and police work depends largely ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a young man allegedly tortured to death on 3 February 2007, in the Malir central jail in Karachi, Sindh Province, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organisation based in Howrah, We...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the killing of a farmer, who is a member of Task Force Mapalad (TFM) seeking land reform in Hacienda Velez-Mal...

As protests were being planned by the railway workers and local and international protests were being staged regarding the three persons who had been abducted on February 5 (please see our statement S...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on an alleged illegal land grabbing case involving about 250 families that had been forcefully evicted from thei...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another alleged torture of a young man by the police in Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, Mr. A. Dushman...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the appeal of eight men over their wrongful and illegal conviction for treason in Burma has been postponed to Febru...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Human Rights Alert (HRA) based in Manipur, India, regarding an alleged incident of indiscrim...

Scholars At Risk (SAR), an international network of universities and colleges dedicated to promoting academic freedom and its constituent freedoms of thought, opinion and expression -freedoms essentia...

During a recent visit to Uttar Pradesh, staff of the Asian Human Rights Commission came across a case that reveals the shocking extent to which the courts in India are misused by the rich and powerful...

The alleged abduction of three persons belonging to the Railway Workers Union who are also associated with the publication of the union’s journal, Akuna, was reported in many publications including t...