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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding events that took place on the day of the municipal elections in Nepal on 8 February 2006. According to our sou...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 14-year-old Manoj Tillakaratne by his physical training teacher A.D.C Renuka on 31 Janua...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the arbitrary detention of prisoners in Krishnanagar jail. It is...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a fabricated case filed against Dattu Rupa Valvi (33), Vijay Rupa Valvi (45), Ganesh Rupa Valvi (36) and five ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another human rights activist, Mateo Morales, has been killed. Morales was killed in his house in San Luis, Agusan del...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you a letter sent by the AHRC to Mr. Chandra Fernando, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Sri Lanka. The letter detail...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of a farmer who was running a community radio station in accordance with provisions of the 19...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fabricated case filed against Ramesh Narsibhai Vasava, an adivasi, after he was shot by a Forest Departme...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Initiative for the Development of People’s Advocacy (PIAR) in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia that ...
The Government of Bangladesh has conducted a political crackdown of massive proportions, arresting over 10000 persons between February 2nd and 5th, 2006. The police have randomly an arbitrarily arre...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was detained then tortured and subsequently killed by the prison staff and the inmates of Bogra District Jail. The i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a number of sources on the ongoing trial of a number of persons who helped lodge a complaint of forced labour with ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the assault of female police constable, Sunethra Koswatte (WPC No 3134) by Inspector of Police, Kastur...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that adivasis (indigenous people) in the Dangs District in the Indian state of Gujarat are living in fear as a Hindu festival in th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our partner organisation from Manipur, India that the security forces deployed in Manipur are engaged in murder, ar...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have arrested at least 10,000 common citizens in the space of only three days beginning on 2 February 2006. The...
[Re: UP-158-2005: PHILIPPINES: Two more activists killed, one of whom suffered twenty-two gunshot wounds; UP-014-2006: PHILIPPINES: Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement O...
North of Bangkok, the Angthong Provincial Court this morning found a farmer guilty of running an illegal community radio station. Sathien Janthorn was given a suspended jail term of six months and fin...
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has recently secured a pardon for opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his colleague Cheam Channy, who were respectively given a jail sentence of 18 months for alleged def...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attempted assassination of a leader of the Nepali Congress and is concerned that this may be the beginni...
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