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[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...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture, arbitrary arrest and illegal detention of a young journalist in Nepal. Mr Chandralal Giri ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from sources about the inaction of the police and the Attorney General in regards to the abduction and murder of a man i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the further postponement in the trial of Jejhon Macalinsal, Aron Salah and Abubakar Amilhasan due to a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about the inaction of the police and the Ministry of Education in regards to the defamation and threatening of five school teac...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that some families of tenant farmers in Pigcawayan, Cotabato, Mindanao, have experienced starvation following a severe d...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the brutal murder of Phra Supoj Suwajano, a monk who had vociferously been protesting against illegal logging in Fang dis...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village,...
[Re: UA-76-2004: THAILAND: A prominent environmentalist Charoen Wat-aksorn murdered and an independent investigation required; UP-40-2004: THAILAND: Arrest warrant issued against a local politician fo...
It is becoming increasingly obvious that getting away with murder in the Philippines is made easy by the absence of any functioning witness protection scheme. The lack of witnesses also becomes a conv...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about another custodial death of a man at the Santaragacchi Gove...
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