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Dear friends, The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) have announced that in early 2006 the Thai-language service of the BBC World Service radio will be take...
The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the resolution adopted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) to introduce a . BASL appointed a committee comprising a former chief justice and two forme...
SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest and detention; Alleged torture; Post-custodial death; Police misconduct; Impunity; Rule of law ———————————...
[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...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just received information on two cases of inhuman police torture committed separately by the Matara police and Hikkaduwa police. In the fir...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attempt by Guria, a human rights organization in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, to rescue ...
27 October 2005 [RE: UA-112-2004: BURMA: Complaints against forced labour blocked and victims punished issued on 3 September 2004; UP-11-2005: BURMA: Four officials sentenced to prison for forced labo...
[RE: UA-164-2004: INDONESIA: 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 inqui...
[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing… UP-20-2005: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case transferred; ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Burma Lawyers’ Council (Thailand) and Yoma-3 news service that U Ohn Myint and Ko Khin Zaw, the two vil...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peace Worldwide, a human rights organization in Islamabad, Pakistan regarding an extrajudicial killing of a you...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Forum for Indigenous Perspectives and Action in Manipur, India regarding human rights violations committed by t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella polic...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, who was severely beaten by policemen who arrested him at a par...
SRI LANKA: Brutal torture; arbitrary arrest and detention; fabricated charges; threat and intimidation ——————————————...
SRI LANKA: Police misconduct; custodial torture; threat and intimidation, government inaction ———————————————&...
The Asian Human Rights Commissions (AHRC) inquiries reveal that no progress has thus far been made by officials investigating the attempted arson of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka he...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of our serious concern in relation to a Sri Lankan lawyer who has appeared for the complainants in many well-known human rig...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that five persons were b...
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