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CAMBODIA: Government again silencing critics

At the beginning of this year there were hopes for more freedom of expression and the improvement of democracy in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen had dropped his defamation lawsuits against human act...

PAKISTAN: A radio station was discriminatorily closed down by the government 

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 Pakistan auth...

SRI LANKA: Another abduction case by a white van without a number plate 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another enforced disappearance from Sri Lanka in which a white coloured van without a number plate is invo...

UPDATE (Philippines): Food blockade imposed on workers on strike 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information that the union members on strike at Chong Won Fashion Inc. (CWFI) in Rosario, Cavite are being denied access ...

PHILIPPINES: Ten injured in violent dispersal of workers on strike in Cavite 

[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 Philippine au...

NEPAL: Fresh series of attacks on Dalit temple worshippers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fresh spate of attacks on Dalit temple worshippers and Dalit representative organizations by religious fun...

HUNGER ALERT (India): The ‘blame game’ continues between state officials and local authorities over the starvation deaths of 8 persons

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the tragic deaths of eight indigenous tribespeople due to prol...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP–Someone had to do something?

On September 21 the Royal Thai Consulate General in Hong Kong wrote to the Asian Human Rights Commission. In the letter, the consul general said that despite the September 19 military coup “the ...

SRI LANKA: Further information regarding the recent Supreme Court decision on the Singarasa case

We refer to the recent Supreme Court (please see below for reference) and our subsequent statements on this matter. As there has been considerable interest in this case and also some confusion we are ...

SRI LANKA: The order of the United Nations Human Rights Committee dated 26 June 2006 on communication number 1250/2004

The Asian Human Rights Commission draws your kind attention to Sundara Arachige Lalith Rajapakse who was the author of the communication mentioned above. The AHRC understands that a copy of the decisi...

GENERAL APPEAL (Pakistan): Government’s inaction regarding a series of attack on journalists

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 Pakistan auth...

UPDATE (Indonesia): Munir’s murderers remain at large, as official investigations take a turn for the worst 

(RE: UA-164-2004: INDONESIA: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end further inqui...

CAMBODIA: A journalist convicted for exposing alleged corruption of the deputy prime minister 

[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...

GENERAL APPEAL (Pakistan): Recent suppression of Ahmadi sect of Islam in Punjab 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed about two separate incidents against the religious minority called Ahmadi sect in Punjab province, Pakistan. In one case, the Daily Al...

GENERAL APPEAL (Thailand): UN rights bodies must act urgently to address junta 

Dear friends, Since the army launched its coup in Thailand on September 19, it has moved fast to curtail civil liberties and detain members of the former caretaker government. There is growing resista...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Santa’s life is under extreme death threats now 

[RE: UP-181-2006: BANGLADESH: Santa’s family facing harassment by the Wazirpur police in Barisal; UP-114-2006: Safety measures must be taken to ensure the lives of Shahin Sultana Santa and her husb...

UPDATE (Indonesia): Three men in Poso to be executed on September 22 

[RE: UA-205-2005: INDONESIA: Three men face execution after President rejects clemency; UP-070-2006: Death sentence must be stayed and new evidence thoroughly investigated; UP-090-2006: Supreme Court ...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP–What is benign?

The September 19 military coup has been described by some persons as benign. Their reasoning goes that the government of Thaksin Shinawatra was bad and intransigent. Whatever way it could be removed w...

NEPAL: 24-year-old man allegedly tortured to death by Maoists 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged abduction, brutal torture and murder of a 24-year-old man, Mr. Santa Bahadu...

INDONESIA: Police and corrections officers torture detainees 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding two corresponding cases of subsequent torture of persons by provincial sectors of the Indonesian Police and co...