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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to request your serious attention to the non-independent lower judiciary of Bangladesh, and seek your active involvement in order to ov...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned but not surprised to hear that a senior police officer was threatened with death on 9 August 2006 when an anonymous caller to the police headquart...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of a suicide involving a man named Mr. Asmat Ali after he was allegedly arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Chhutipur camp...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information that a 16-year-old school girl has been duped into leaving home by one of her school teachers in Thiruwanaganga...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that Uztadz Kusain Abedin, a development worker whom the military illegally arrested and detained, was released on August 4 ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-188-2006 August 10, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Court delays, rights violations and impunity give no cause for celebration of Supreme Court...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to draw the attention of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the rampant and unrestrained abuses of human rights th...

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

[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...

[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 aut...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to write to you today on the historic occasion of the first police officer in Argentina being sentenced to jail last Friday, August 4 for having com...

This is the last in a series of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has felt compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council over the horrible human rights situation in B...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received updated information that two constables of the Border Security Forces (BSF) of Khayertala BOP No. 1 Point were simply dismissed without fac...

On August 4 a court in Argentina sentenced Julio Simon to 25 years in prison. Simon, who is now 65, was a police officer who in late 1978 was among those responsible for the abduction and killing of J...

This is the fourth of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council on the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an assault of a 15-year-old boy by a Sub Inspector (SI) at the Panadura (South) police station in Panadura, Sr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that trials have begun against several poverty-stricken villagers who were charged with robbery for stealing scr...

This is the third of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council about the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, an...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following information from the Commission of Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) in Indonesia regarding illegal detent...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case involving the fabrication of charges by the Mahiyangana police. The victim, belonging to the Adhivasi (indigenous) comm...