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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 ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged brutal attack on a couple by persons who a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding abductions of three men who have been missing after allegedly being arrested by state secret agents in Sindh p...

(Hong Kong, January 17, 2007) A coalition of anti-coup groups has announced new protests against the military junta in Thailand, while another concerned about media freedom has reported a sharp increa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged deaths during a protest in Nandigram, East Midn...

(Hong Kong, January 16, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Monday welcomed the submitting of a letter requesting the Japanese government to take up extrajudicial killings in the Philipp...