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UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Torture victim threatened to withdraw his complaint by the Mundalama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the further threat and intimidation directed at torture victim, A.P. Jayaweera Sandanayake to withdraw...

NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with information regarding police in Nepal having detained more than 100 people for planning to defy a ban on public rallies in the capita...

UPDATE (Indonesia): Death sentence must be stayed and new evidence thoroughly investigated 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the imminent execution of Fabianus Tibo (60), Dominggus Da Silva (42) and Don Marinus Riwu (48), who were charged with in...

PHILIPPINES: Another female activist killed while her husband was wounded in a shooting in Bohol 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another female activist was killed while her husband was wounded in a shooting on 3 April 2006 in Candijay, Bohol. Act...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Four alleged perpetrators of rape are identified 

[RE: UP-068-2006: BANGLADESH: Four alleged perpetrators of rape walk free due to their political influence and power; UA-018-2006: BANGLADESH: Gang rape of a minority woman in Bagerhat district] ̵...

SRI LANKA: Weligama Police implicated in the torture and killing of a father and son 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the alleged torture and extra-judicial killing of a father and son by the Weligama Police. Despite years ha...

SRI LANKA: The Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission and the importance of independence 

SRI LANKA: Political undermining of the Human Rights Commission; absence of leadership within the Human Rights Commission; government control; failure to implement the 17th Amendment ——...

UPDATE (Philippines): Torture victims file charges against policemen 

[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...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Four alleged perpetrators of rape walk free due to their political influence and power 

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; unfair prosecution for trial; inadequate action by authorities; threat and intimidation; collapse of rule of law ——————...

SRI LANKA: Government attempts to continue Human Rights Commission by means other than compliance with 17th Amendment

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the developments regarding the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRC) after its Commissioners’ terms of office ended on April 3, 2...

SRI LANKA: Proposal to destroy independence of Sri Lankan HRC must be vehemently opposed

A report in today’s Daily Mirror newspaper of April 3 states that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa “is exploring the possibility of setting up independent commissions under the 17th Amend...

SRI LANKA: Chief justice warns judiciary is becoming a joke

Speaking at the induction of the President Elect of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka during its 32nd Annual Convocation, the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka warned that the judiciary could become a laughin...

UPDATE (Philippines): Lawyers for 11 torture victims file motion to withdraw charges against them

PHILIPPINES: Torture; illegal arrest and detention; denial of victims for adequate medical and trauma treatment; detention of minors together with adults; failure to enact an enabling law against tort...

UPDATE (Burma): Further worrying developments in case of deadly assault victim Thet Naing Oo 

[RE: UA-097-2006: BURMA: Municipal officers and firefighters beat man to death then police charge his friends; UP-060-2006: BURMA: Innocent people blamed for killing of Thet Naing Oo; witnesses remain...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Further threats made against victim of rape and her family 

[RE: UP-151-2005: SRI LANKA: Rape victim and her family’s safety feared following the release of five suspects on bail; UA-183-2005: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the B...

UPDATE (Hong Kong SAR): Last anti-WTO protester acquitted by the court 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Mr. Yun Il-kwan, the 36-year-old Korean farmer and last anti-WTO protester facing prosecution, was acquitted by the F...

THAILAND: Interior Minister bans magazine for publishing articles on Thai monarchy 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Thai magazine has been accused of causing “public disorder and affecting moral standards” by publishi...

PHILIPPINES: Law needed to stop torture and systemic negligence in the Philippines

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2006 AS-057-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: Law needed to stop torture and systemic negligence in the Philippines The brutal police t...

UPDATE (India): More starvation deaths, more lies in Murshidabad, West Bengal

[Re: HU-02-2006: River erosion continues to swallow lives and livelihoods in Jalangi, Murshidabad;  HU-09-2005: Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims ...

BANGLADESH: Villagers beaten and thirty-five persons arbitrarily arrested and detained by the police in Meherpur district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Task Force against Torture (TFT) of Meherpur that following a misunderstanding between the villagers of Bhorat village a...