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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a blockade of food supplies set up by the Cambodian authorities to force 180 families of disabled war veterans, widows and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by nine officers of the Muncipal Administrative Police Unit (SA...

[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 many of the Cambodian a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged police assault of a 57-year-old woman in East Denpasar, Indonesia after she was arrested on 3 January ...

According to an article in the January 20 edition of the Bangkok Post, the new director of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has committed himself to cleaning up the department, removing i...

January 23, 2007 AHRC-OL-004-2007 An Open Letter to the chief of the Philippine National Police by the Asian Human Rights Commission General Oscar Calderon Chief Philippine National Police (PNP) Camp ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of human rights activists associated with Guria, that the case is dragging on in the court in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2...

Why is it that judges in Pakistan seem completely unable to apply the fundamental legal principle of habeas corpus and order police or military officers to produce detained or arrested persons in cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the failure to conduct a proper postmortem examination by the police before they buried a female corpse recove...

Dear friends, The military junta that has now controlled government in Thailand for four months has in recent weeks made clear that martial law was never partially lifted at the end of November, as it...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to update you on a land dispute that was reported on earlier this month involving the forced eviction of two communities from the Sambo di...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local NGO,  the Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND), that on 18 September 2006, two young me...

(Hong Kong, January 19, 2007) Martial law and emergency regulations should be lifted from Thailand without further delay, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said in an appeal issued on Friday. I...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you regarding the press release issued by the Philippine Information Agency on January 12 entitled, “PNP clarifies case of Herman Baria bef...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) is in danger of loosing its independence, through a draft by the Pre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent developments in the investigation and prosecutory trial of the murder of the late human rig...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed documentation on the appeal against conviction for treason of eight men in Burma. The accused, including Hkun Htun Oo, the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on ...