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The resignation of two judges from the three-member Judicial Service Commission (JSC) continues to be a matter of topmost public interest. Comments made by numerous persons reflecting different points...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a torture victim S.A. Akila Chaturanga who was arbitrarily tortured by the Horana police on the allega...

[RE: UP-023-2006: SRI LANKA: Threats made against Koraleliyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara must be dealt with immediately, UP-84-2005: The tuberculosis patient confirms Tissa Kumara’s allegation; Th...

Today, February 20, 2006 the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has selected Somchai Neelaphaijit for its 2nd , in recognition of his tireless efforts to bring justice to v...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that after an appeal was issued for police assault victim Ko Aung Myint Oo (UA-058-2006), an investigation team was sent to inq...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Myint Moe Media Group (Thailand) that next Monday, February 20, the case of jailed tuition teacher U Aung Pe is to go to...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held on February 17, 2006 that officers of the Welipenna police station severely tortured Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara by forcing a tuberculosis patient to spit i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault of two human rights defenders by army personnel of the Ranadal Gulma on 13 ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed regarding the chaining of two peaceful protesters to hospital beds in Puri, Orissa, India. Siba Shankar Sahu and Debadutta Prad...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that protection offered to Thai Buddhist monk Phra Kitisak Kitisophon by the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) has been withd...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of two cases where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has turned down requests for clemency against the death penalty. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the alleged extrajudicial killing of Dayus (48) an entrepreneur, by the Resort Police of West Jakarta. At approximate...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights group working in Uttar Prades...

Recent reports speak of significant reorganisation within Sri Lanka’s police department, bringing it under the control of the Secretary of Defence (SD), who will now attend to all police appoint...

Background: Dr Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, was sued in 2002 by former Singapore prime ministers Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong for defamation. The courts...

[RE: UP-120-2005: SRI LANKA: Trial begins in High Court relating to the torture of Gerald Perera; UP-32-2005: SRI LANKA: Please write a letter to the Attorney General to speed up Gerald Perera’s...

Several senior members of the opposition United National Party (UNP) have issued statements expressing concern over the resignation of two judges from the three member Judicial Service Commission and ...

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been in contact with persons who have informed about a brutal assault by police on a young man, Ko Aung Myint Oo, who was beaten by a group o...