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[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...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its deep concern to the injured victims and the families of those who lost their lives in the bomb blasts in Mumbai, India on July 11, 2006. ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you with regards to many serious allegations of brutal and oftentimes murderous violent crimes by state officers in Myanmar, which it understands...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that on 3 July 2006, a rickshaw driver named Inarul Islam Ena was arbitrarily arrested, forced to drive overnight, and sodomize...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2006 AS-165-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BURMA: Bloody killings expose myth of “state stability” In recent weeks and months there ha...

[RE: UA-082-2006: PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of 11 persons and the subsequent filing of fabricated charges against them; UP-063-2006: PHILIPPINES: Lawyers for 11 torture victims file motion to withdr...

[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 ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner, The Advocacy Forum, of a case regarding the brutal torture of Mr. Teksu Rai by the officers from the Maha...

[UA-119-2006: BURMA: Court appeal against lawyer jailed for helping farmers contact ILO headed for Supreme Court; UA-071-2006: UA-155-2006: BURMA: Farmer jailed for complaining about destruction of cr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, detailing the killing of a 14-year-old boy by the Borde...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-164-2006 July 10, 2006  A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA – Torture, worse than absurd – (this is the beginning of a series of statements...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that M.S.F. Perera who was allegedly tortured by prison guards at Kuruwita Remand Prison has succumbed to his injuries at the Nationa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of the alleged death in custody of a young man in Burma due to an assault by special anti-drug squad police. According to hi...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; violence against human rights defenders; failure of authorities to provide protection; delays in arresting perpetrators despite charges filed; complete collapse o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a new bill that was illegally passed by the government in Pakistan in order to drag the country’s workers into condi...