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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a killing of a 14-year-old boy named Salman and the serious injuries of a 15-year-old boy named Asqhar by the Musl...

[RE: UA-176-2004: SRI LANKA: Another alleged police murder of a man by the Moratuwa police; UP-05-2005: SRI LANKA: Mt. Lavinia police’s apparent inaction to arrest/prosecute those responsible fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Nepalese partner organisation Advocacy Forum of the rape of a 17-year old girl by a member of the Nepalese Army. It is feare...

In a very strange move that will surprise anyone concerned with the global effort to eradicate disappearances and gross human rights violations, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), which...

On July 17 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an appeal on the alleged torture, armed robbery, illegal detention, and attempted rape and extortion of two persons in Saraburi, just northea...

THAILAND: Abduction; illegal detention; torture; robbery; attempted rape; threat to life; forced confession; attempted extortion; corruption; impunity; non-investigation; denial of redress —R...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man named Saman Rohana Manawadu by the Ingiriya police. Mr. Manawadu was...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a situation regarding B. Nimal, who was illegally detained by the Wanduramba police because his son had disappeared with ...

Note from the AHRC: In earlier communications the AHRC has reported that the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is no longer a legitimate body as the member commissioners were appointed by the Execu...

Thank you for your message to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) of 13 July 2006 in reply to our open letter to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Myanmar, ‘Violent crime by state...

This year is the 23rd anniversary of the Black July of 1983.  In a book published in June 2002, Sirisena Cooray, very much an insider to the regime in power in 1983 gives the story of the manner in w...

Dear friends, Over the years some rich and powerful people have illegally cleared different portions of woodlands that belong to the public domain so as to own the land cleared of forests as their pri...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Legal Aid Institute of Jakarta (LBH Jakarta) that three security guards from Indonesia’s National Intelligence Body (BI...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Padang Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Padang) in West Sumatera, Indonesia that Mr Kamzul Abrar, coordinator of the F...

[UP-121-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission has yet to submit its report regarding police brutality; UP-095-2006: BANGLADESH: Government names District Judge to conduct a judicial probe into t...

PHILIPPINES: Threats against human rights and political activists; inaction by authorities to ensure their security and protection; inadequate police investigation; violence against women; complete co...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about another three disappearance cases in Pakistan. They are Mr. Asif Baladi, a publisher of Peace Publishing House and the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the death of Mudalige Sunil Fermin Perera, who died on 6 July 2006 due to torture by prison guards (Se...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that in the late afternoon of July 3 the police of Kandal province arrested at their respective homes Mrs. Lach Sambo, president, Mis...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a blind beggar’s 19-year-old daughter was gang raped by three influential men for several months. Upon knowing her...