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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —&...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Women Action Forum. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Women Action Forum forwa...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a trade union leader and his brother have been gunned downed by unidentified men during strike negotiations. Mr. Mustansar Ran...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...

Rana Maqbool Ahmed is a former Inspector General of Police of Sindh province and has been accused of the torture of and conspiracy to kill President Zadari when he was imprisoned in 1999. Rana has bee...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received a report of the atrocious torture of a soldier by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on the false charges of working for the Research and An...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the body of a young man has been found three months after his arrest in the midst of a campaign for legal redress for hi...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Ahmar Masti Khan Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Ahmar Masti Khan forwarded by ...

On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations on June 26, a bleak statement is to be made on the state of torture in Pakistan. More cases of t...

Lahore, June 23, 2010: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has drawn the government’s attention to a United Nations expert’s report on targeted killings, including those through drone s...

2010 United Nations International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture: HKU Panel Discussion. Click here!  (June 24, 2010) The International Day in Support of Torture Victims is on 26th June and...

Muslim landowner offers to remove chains from 11-year-old boy if he converts to Islam WAZIRABAD, June 21 (CDN) — An 11-year-old Christian boy here is growing weak and ill from malnutrition from wor...

Karachi, June 21: Her husband was Head Constable in Karachi Police and she was living peacefully enjoying life with her three children. She used to attend Sunday Services in local Church at Manzoor C...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that more than 100,000 workers of power looms in Faisalabad district of Punjab province are on strike since July 20 to...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian f...

“The government must tell us who killed our father; it must arrest the murderers,” says Kamran Hayat, the 8-year-old son of journalist Hayatullah Khan, whose handcuffed body was found four years a...

An interview conducted by the Asian Human Rights Commission. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the AHRC. Pakistan–A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture Ms Tar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that more than 108 houses in Toba Tek district, Punjab province, have been illegally demolished by the provincial Depart...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two Christian men are in imminent danger after they were arrested, without a legitimate investigation, for blasphemy. The poli...