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INDIA: Police brutality, torture, lack of action by the National Human Rights Commission and failure of rule of law ————————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arrest of two prominent human rights activists, Mr. Kem Sokha and Mr. Yeng Virak, which took place in Phno...

The recent drug menace plaguing Sri Lanka has been linked to police corruption. On December 31, 2005 the Inspector General of Police was reported to have said that the country’s drug problem can...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that two more inmates, namely Vicente Abella and Mary Jane Mancera (33), have died at the General Santos...

AS-001-2007 January 2, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Use of anti terrorism laws to suppress media and human rights organisations – the Sunday Leader episode a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source regarding the brutal torture of an innocent man, Haron Abubakar Buisan (25), following his arrest over m...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that in Naogaon, Bangladesh, attempts are underway to illegally occupy the land of a Hindu temple depriving the local Hindu com...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a person was taken into custody by the security forces in Nepal and since arrest his whereabouts are not known and that th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the killing of a man, Udaya Kumara, by policemen attached to the Mount Lavinia police station on 19 December 2...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, a local nongovernmental organisation about the arrest and torture of an innocent person by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the shocking beating to death of two marine officers on 21 September 2005 and the subsequent arrest of 12?villagers in Muang...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed by a reliable source that two girls, aged 12 and 15, and five other detainees were arrested on 26 November 2005 by the Nepalese army o...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) sends greetings to everyone, wishing them a Happy Christmas and New Year. We wish particularly to extend our greetings to those members of our network from aro...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source of the illegal arrest, detention and torture of Mohammad Abul Kashem Gazi, by policemen attached to the Kh...

Former presidents of Sri Lanka, JR Jayawardene, R Premadasa and C Kumaratunga are well known for their authoritarian operation of the executive presidency, therein crippling the country’s most vital ...

The past two weeks saw Hong Kong become a theatre in which the conflict between free trade and human rights played out very visibly, with broadcast and other media conveying the interventions of all t...

[Re: HU-10-2005: Food assistance assured to families of farmers suffering of hunger in Alabel, Sarangani province, Mindanao; Re: HA-25-2005: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source regarding the suspicious death of an 18-year-old inmate, Arthur Esquelona at the General Santos City Ref...

[Re: UA-138-2005: INDIA: Human rights activist facing death threats for working with Dalit and Backward Community, UP-95-2005: INDIA: Another human rights activist threatened for working with Dalits i...

[RE: UA-164-2004: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end further inquiries; UP-47...