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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by the Pannala Police on 3 August 2005. Mohommed Lufrash was detained by t...

Public pressure and the courageous stand taken by Sri Lanka’s Commissioner of Elections have made certain that the next presidential elections will be held this year; President Kumaratunga’...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the rape of a young woman who was subsequently sold in a public auction on 20 August 2005 in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the present condition of the family of Datu Abdullah Sabdura Salah whose  forcibly disappearance was ...

[RE: UP-03-2005: SRI LANKA: Further threat to the life of torture victim Channa Prasanna Fernando, UP-01-2005: SRI LANKA: Police officers interdicted regarding three torture cases of Gerald Perera, La...

[RE: UA-23-2002: Sign petition for attorney general to bring justice to May 1998 riot victims; UP-81-2005: INDONESIA: Attorney General Refuses to investigate gross violations of human rights that were...

Media Release on 18 August 2005 The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is deeply concerned to note the dramatic increase in child recruitment by the LTTE reported from our offices in the North and E...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Mindanao People’s Caucus (MPC), a coalition of human rights groups in Mindanao, regarding the threat of s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Galagedara, Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005. After the girl’s father reported th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Luzon that a person who was illegally arrested, detained and ...

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philip...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the opposition party leader Mohammed Nasheed, who is the chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party(MDP), was ar...

The recent assault and detention of the Maldives’ opposition party leader is indicative of the disturbing use of authoritarian powers by the government to suppress calls for democratic reform. M...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and arrest of human rights activist, Mohammad Musa Azami, in Varanasi, Uttar Pra...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the illegal occupation of a room in a primary school build...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Initiative for the Development of People’s Advocacy (PIAR) in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia regarding the...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the latest attempt at intimidation of a human rights defender in Thailand. According to the information we have received, ...

The latest in a growing number of open threats and attacks directed at human rights defenders and social activists in Thailand occurred in the early hours of last Thursday, August 18, when a grenade w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged torture of a man by police attached to the Gokarella Police Station. On 4 July 2004, Mr H.M. Susantha Herath ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a 17-year-old boy at the hands of the police, following his arrest on seemingly fabricated thef...