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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of V.M. Duminda Jayawardena by two policemen from the Mitiyagoda police station on 11 March...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2006 AS-051-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Fear syndrome may also extend to Auditor General’s department Reports followin...

[RE: UP-040-2006: SRI LANKA: Supreme Court granted leave to proceed in a brutal torture case filed by Chamara Nimantha; UA-182-2005: SRI LANKA: Brutal torture and fabricated charges laid against the v...

[RE: UP-033-2006: SRI LANKA: Threats to 14-year-old boy and his family to withdraw complaint of brutal assault by teacher; UA-060-2006: SRI LANKA: Brutal assault on 14-year-old by his games teacher] &...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-4 in the name of ‘crossfire’ on 9 March 2006. The man was arrested ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that recently a judge at the provincial court of Rattanakiri in northeast Cambodia took a bribe of over USD 13,000 in exchange for the release on b...

An article in Friday’s Thai Day supplement to the International Herald Tribune quoted an officer of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) working on the case of abducted human rights law...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the failure to investigate the brutal assault on Rathnasiri Senadheera by Superintendent of Police Sal...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) stating that labour leader Rogelio Concepcion, who was ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a pregnant woman, who is diabetic patient, was tortured by the police on the street and in a prison van on 12 M...

[RE: UA-216-2005: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPPINES: Possible irregularit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that the appeal of two villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma against ...

In recent days a visitor to the banks of the Mae Klong River in Ban Pong of Ratchaburi province, west of Bangkok, might have noticed a little dinghy moving about in the middle of the swollen water, a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the illegal arrest and detention of a man by the Gokarella police, despite the latter being informed that t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of an incident whereby two policemen from Poddala police are alleged to have repeatedly tortured a mentally ill man, who the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that seven-year-old P.W. Tharanga Kumara, a student of Gonapinuwela Saralankara School, Gonapinuwela, Galle District, Sr...

[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing… UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case tra...

While the incident of two Supreme Court judges resigning on the basis of matters of conscience is still very much a part of the public debate, the Auditor General of Sri Lanka has now also come under ...

Dear friends, Following in the footsteps of four cases of abuse of students by their teachers in Sri Lanka in recent months, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has now learned of yet another inc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that two more activists have been killed in separate incidents on 7 and 17 March 2006 in Mabini, Bohol and Hacienda ...