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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about a sugar cane cutter losing his sight in one eye while working in the paddy fields that come ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an urgent appeal from Peoples Watch Tamil Nadu, a human rights organization in Tamil Nadu, India, regarding a Dalit woman who w...
It should come as no surprise to anyone that has followed the saga of missing Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit to hear that his wife Angkhana has now taken his case directly to the U.N. H...
This next week of July 2005 is an historic one for Thailand. As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) it will go before the U.N. Human Rights Committee for the fi...
[UA-38-2002: SRI LANKA: Torture victim has not been produced before the JMO even after a magistrate’s order; UP-07-2004: SRI LANKA: Michael Anthony Fernando attacked; UP-49-2003: Michael Anthony...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another threat made against a judge in Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, former Magistrate of Wel...
Just as the trial into the murder of High Court Judge Sarath Ambipitiya has concluded, another judge, former Magistrate of Wellawaya Magistrates Court, Janaka Bandara has received death threats. The...
[RE: UA-84-2005: NEPAL: Re-arrest of Nepalese citizens undermines official court orders and rule of law; UP-16-2005: NEPAL: List of arrested political leaders and human rights defenders; International...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged illegal arrest, detention and brutal torture of a man by the Officer-in-Charge and other police personnel at ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses serious concern about the visible loss of interest in torture cases by the Attorney Generals Department. While the government and its officials may...
[UP-32-2004: Tissa Kumara receives further death threats; UP-28-2004: Police pressure the torture victim to withdraw case by threatening his family; UP-22-2004: Tuberculosis patient kept in solitary c...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is reproducing below the translation of a statement made by a tuberculosis patient to Sri Lanka’s Special Investigation Unit. The statement reveals how a...
The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the strike reported to be taking place at the Negombo Government Hospital as baseless, unjust, unprofessional and amounting to holding sick people to ransom ...
(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...
A High Court judge, Sarath Ambipitiya, was assassinated on the 21st November 2004. Within seven months the criminal investigations and the trial were completed with a three member trial at bar findi...
[Re: UA-101-2005: BURMA/MALAYSIA: Sixty eight Burmese protesters holding a peaceful demonstration are arbitrarily detained by the police] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has rec...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding three persons illegally and arbitrarily detained at Jala...
[RE: UA-31-2005: BURMA: Local officials set up on forced labour charges to cover for senior military officers; UP-69-2005: BURMA: Villagers lodge second complaint for detention of wrong persons in for...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from sources in Indonesia regarding the killings of demonstrators at Trisakti and Semanggi, Jakarta in 1998/99 (...
[Re: UP-74-2005: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Priyankara received death threats again and urgent witness protection is required; UP-37-2004: A Kandy coordinator of National Police Commission allegedly co...
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