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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that a farmer in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma has been jailed after lodgi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from The Asylum Seeker Project (http://asp.hothammission.org.au/), in Melbourne, Australia, detailing the plight of seve...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2006 AS-105-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Human Rights Council a new forum to discuss Sri Lanka’s human rights record An a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2006 AS-104-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission THAILAND: DSI director must be sacked and investigated In a May 9 letter to the permanent secretary of t...
The new Human Rights Council was elected on May 9, 2006. According to the General Assembly Resolution of April 3, 2006, When electing members of the Council, Member States shall take into account th...
[RE: UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed Judicial Probe Commission report; UP-083-2006: BANGLADESH: Police defy High Court order by continuing to make ...
[RE: UA-73-2004: THAILAND: Human rights defender faces preliminary decision in libel case on 21 June 2004 and UP-31 2004: THAILAND: Criminal Court decides to let libel suit against Ms Supinya Klangnar...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Aim, Lucknow regarding the acute situation of hunger ...
The electoral victory of Sri Lanka’s United National Party (UNP) in 1977 created what is now commonly known as ‘elective dictatorship’. This dictatorship was made permanent through t...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2006 AS-101-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Snail pace progress at the National Human Rights Commission the Commission must accept responsibi...
[RE: UA-082-2006: PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of 11 persons and subsequent filing of fabricated charges against them; UP-063-2006: PHILIPPINES: Lawyers for 11 torture victims file motion to withdraw c...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another two persons were killed while three other activists survived an attempt on their lives in separate inci...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that police assaulted a number of political activists and other demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and demonstratio...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of a case in Sri Lanka involving a policeman and a home guard arriving at the home of a family in an inebriated state. They then accu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that Gerardo Cristobal, a labour leader who survived an attempt on his life on 28 April 2006, is reported to have been false...
Dear friends, On 31 March 2006, at around 11am, Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Jayampath and a constable visited Mr. Wijewardenas boutique and queried his identity. When he told them, they asked him...
Why is a police officer the director-general of Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation? The DSI was established under the Ministry of Justice so that it would not be subject to direct co...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes that the Government of Indonesia is bidding for membership within the United Nations Human Rights Council. Elections are to be held on May 9, 2006. Indon...
A statement made by Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice, Sarath N. Silva at a recent public meeting is causing many comments, both public and private, on the state of the judiciary and rule of law in the ...
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