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A press release issued by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) on January 12 quoted Chief Superintendent Geary Barias, director of the Police Regional Office 6 as justifying the death of Hernan Bar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist was allegedly tortured and fabricated charges were laid against him by the Kalpitiya police in Sri Lan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Chinese investment company named Global Agricultural Development Cambodia Co. Ltd allegedly bulldozed and cleared...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights organization KONTRAS regarding two separate cases of violence and intimidation against human rig...

On January 16 the government gazette of Bangladesh announced that the interim president, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, signed into law the separation of the country’s subordinate judiciary from the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Surendra Thapa was severely beaten up by senior police officers of the District Police Office (DPO), Surkhet di...

The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that we have received a letter from Mr. T.A. Mahanama Tilakaratne, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Disappearances in response to our...

AS-011-2007 January 13, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  PHILIPPINES: Police and military’s union to investigate killing a ‘systematic cover-up’ On January 10,...

As protests by farming communities fearing displacement from their land as a result of a new industrial project continue to lead to violence in West Bengal (Eastern India), Amnesty International is co...

At 11:15pm on January 11 the president of Bangladesh, Professor Iazuddin Ahmed, publicly announced a state of emergency and ordered a curfew in response to increasingly violent conflict paralysing the...

AS-009-2007 January 12, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission THAILAND: Martial law rules in constitution’s stead An article in the Bangkok Post of January 11 quoted General Sont...

THAILAND: AHRC condemns renewal of emergency rule in south, revival of cold war “death squad” command (Hong Kong, January 12, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Friday conde...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal that a family of Bangladeshi origin were brutally assaulted and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the five former student activists who were arrested between 27 and 30 September 2006 have been released from more than ...

At a school inauguration ceremony on January 5 at Kompong Cham province, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a stern warning to all political parties against criticising their competitors in order...

On January 10, 2007, workers of a Korean-owned factory, who have been on strike since September 25, 2006, were forced to appear in court to submit their defence in response to the charges of libel the...

(Hong Kong, January 11, 2007) A new order by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh that the country’s judges be set free from government control has been cautiously welcomed by the Asian Human Rights ...

[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 some of the Cambodian au...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 in Jessore district...

The judiciary of Pakistan has abdicated their duty to protect the citizens of the country by their blatant and open failure to handle cases of disappearances thereby providing the secret agencies of t...