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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that four persons, including a pregnant woman were tortured while one was arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Paikgachha p...

[RE: UA-136-2005: SRI LANKA: Two persons severely injured after being tortured by iron rods by the Wattegama police; UP-97-2005: SRI LANKA: A torture victim with serious injuries is chained to his bed...

27 June 2006 AA-004-2006 A Special Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission JAPAN: Launch of Japanese Mailing Lists 日本語でのメーリングリストをはじめました アジアン...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Rajarhat police in Kurigram district allegedly killed a man on the night of 22 June 2006. Mr. Kasi Uddin went to the p...

Dear friends, On 1 August 2005, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released an urgent appeal (UA-130-2005) detailing the case of Subhas Mondal. The AHRC has now received new information from MAS...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2006 AS-155-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission CAMBODIA: Support for rights of workers to march On 20 June, Touch Naruth, the police commissioner of P...

The Asian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) Urgent Appeals Programme wishes to remind you of our new urgent appeal online support system. We strongly urge you to use this system and to help pressure g...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about an incident relating to the detention and assault of two US medical students by the police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Justino G. Aventurado of Tagum City, Mindanao has yet to issue arrest warr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) of an alleged rape of a minor by an official in Burma. U Aung Myo Min, an executive ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of the appalling gang rape of a 17-year-old girl by six men who are allegedly members of local political parties. The 17-year-o...

Dear friends, It is with much regret that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continued torture and assault of journalists and media personnel in Pakistan, with a repo...

[Re: UP-80-2005: SRI LANKA:  Further death threats to torture victim J.V. Saman Priyankara from Matale ; UP-74-2005: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Priyankara received death threats again and urgent witne...

A Joint NGO Statement WORLD: Prohibitions against torture under attack     As we observe the annual U.N. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, we would like to celeb...

On June 21, the representative of Thailand to the United Nations in Geneva addressed the first sitting of the new UN Human Rights Council. In his speech, Dr Chaiyong Satjipanon stated that, “Tha...

Although Pakistan is now an elected member of the new UN Human Rights Council, the practice of torture throughout the country is on the rise. Since its election on May 9, 2006 gross human rights viola...

Cambodia acceded to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in October 1992. In September 2005, the Cambodian government signed the Optional Proto...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2006 AS-152-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the International Day in Support of Torture Victims and Survivors, June 26, 2006 THAILAND: Failure t...

The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is a sad reminder of Sri Lanka’s complete failure to eliminate torture.  This is even sadder because it was the past practices of horrendo...

On 7 June 2006 a Committee in the Philippine Congress approved a consolidated bill seeking to outlaw torture. By approving this long overdue bill, the Committee acknowledged the need to enact an enabl...