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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a man allegedly by Sergeant Samaranayake of the Wanduramba police. The victim was taken ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information detailing the torture of a man by police officers attached to the Alawathugoda Police Station. The victim was beaten and...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM about yet another brutal killing by the Border Security Forces (BSF) at the Indo-...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through international and national media as well a through local social and political groups of Pakistan that the Pakist...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to you in advance of your State on Monday, July 24. While we look forward to what you will be reporting regarding the present situation of your country ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-172-2006 July 21, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Torture, worse than absurd (This is the second in the series of statements whi...
The Philippine National Police have a unique definition of the word “solved”. According to them, once a charge is filed against a suspect with the Office of the Prosecutor it is solved. Su...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the killings of two persons, one of whom was a minor, by officers of the Border Security Forces (BSF) operating along the Indo-Ban...
[Re: UA-221-2006: SRI LANKA: Death in prison custody of illegally arrested man; second man seriously injured, UP-140-2006: SRI LANKA: Responsibility of prison officers for death of M.S.F. Perera and...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the disappearance of two student activists and a peasant on June 26, 2006. The victims Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño ...
[Re: UA-90-2004: SRI LANKA: A boy brutally assaulted by his teachers and denied his right of education; UP-42-2004: SRI LANKA: Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers; UP–003–2006: SRI ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2006 AS-170-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission THAILAND: UN charge that killings “official policy” cannot be ignored On July 18 a senior U...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local partner regarding a man who was allegedly taken into custody by police officers and brutally tortured in Ke...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the fabricated charges of a man, owing to the line of work he is engaged in. Though the police have charged...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the guards of the state rubber plantation of Krek, in Pohnea Krek distict, Kompong Cham province and the police of the same prov...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a 19-year-old boy named Dhanuka Tisara by the Kalutara South police after his illegal ar...
[RE: UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case transferred… UP-77-2005: THAILAND: Department of Special Investigation fails ...
It is with great concern that we watch the rapid deterioration of perhaps it would be more accurate to say the deliberate flaunting of the rule of law and international norms in Western Asia. ...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of Mr. Sadiq Ali and how he was threatened by a superior officer when he approached the off...
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