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The AHRC is issuing this statement to coincide with a meeting organised by a group of citizens in Sri Lanka on the theme ‘Saving Sri Lanka from the brink of disaster’, to be held on May 27...

The media reported today that the Executive President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse, has used his presidential power to ban the Da Vinci Code blockbuster film from public screening. The Daily News, ...

On the morning of May 23, 2006 a police force equipped with electric batons from Dangkor district, Phnom Penh was sent to beat up and disperse a group of workers on strike in front of the Park View ga...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an appalling case of arbitrary use of police authority against a man whom they accused to have interfered and disturbed poli...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention the killing of a police inspector and his wife following his alleged attempt to inquire into drug related crime...

Dear friends, In August 2004 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote detailing the torture of two boys by officers from the Ambalangoda police. The officers initially arrested the boys for alle...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is alarmed by the continuing reports of forced disappearances of political activists with the latest incident involving two members from the Jeay...

[RE: UP-112-2006: BANGLADESH: Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators; UP-101-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the attack upon The Dawn, a daily newspaper published from Pakistan, by Mr. Salahuddin Haider, the Chief Minister’s advisor on Information in th...

On May 7, 15 Cambodian judges and two public prosecutors were appointed to serve on the Khmer Rouge tribunal alongside 11 international judges and two prosecutors. The appointment has met with a lot o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the plight of several thousand villagers suffering from hunger and malnutrition due to the severe drought tha...

Dear friends, We are reproducing the statement of an independent group who is calling for a discussion on “Saving Sri Lanka from the brink of disaster”. In the paper this group sets the pr...

By dismissing a case of police torture and degrading treatment on May 21, 2006, the Fourth Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression, under the Chief Metropolitan MagistrateR...

AUSTRALIA: Threat of deportation of asylum seekers; failure to consider plight of asylum seekers; lack of impartial refugee assessment; failure to respect international obligations ——̵...

[RE: UP-101-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed ...

Dear Mr Kofi Annan, The Asian Human Rights Commission sends greetings to you on the occasion of your 25-27 May 2006 visit to Thailand to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of His Majesty the King’...

In what amounts to a scandal concerning the manner in which President Mahinda Rajapaske has made appointments to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, one of the nominees and well known human righ...

Dear friends, On 7 April 2006, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported how Kithsiri Dharawardena was brutally assaulted by about 100 inmates and trainees of the police training college in Ke...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern over fears of a possible violent dispersal of factory workers on protest. Protesting workers of S. P. Venture Corporatio...

[RE: UP-160-2005: PHILIPPINES: Armed men kill female activist in Bataan, Luzon; victim’s colleagues faces serious threat; UA-078-2006: PHILIPPINES: Nineteen-year-old activist found dead in Abucay, Ba...