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Dear friends, We are forwarding you the latest information we have received from Think Centre in Singapore regarding the death penalty to Mr Shanmugm Murugesu, a Singaporean father of two. Mr Murugesu...

Within the last two weeks alone, the Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on three cases of alleged gross medical negligence in Sri Lanka. First, a 48-year-old mother alleged that her healthy le...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP)-Mindanao regarding the illegal arrest and torture of four farmers by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about the continued inaction and disregard by the authorities of Surat, Gujarat, India in investigating and prosecuting the ...

[Re: UP-51-2005: SRI LANKA: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a woman’s leg, UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Ho...

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

Dear _________, Re: INDIA: Murdered adivasi’s family lives in starvation while no action taken regarding his death Name of the victim: Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava, age 30, resident of Katiskuva ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is glad to inform you that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of the Philippines has issued an order to provide protection a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) refers to our urgent appeal issued on 22 April 2005 regarding the case of Ms. Citthi Naseera (48) who suffered the amputation of a healthy limb d...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand about the worsening health and family conditions of a villager jailed illegally f...

[Re: HU-04-2005: INDIA: UNICEF still avoiding responsibility in providing assistance to starving women and children in West Bengal; HU-02-2005: 5 year-old girl, evicted from her home by government aut...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the long delay in the trial of three men named Jejhon Macalinsal, Aron Salah and Abubakar Amilhasan. They were...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that K.A. Ganga Kalpani, gave birth prematurely after being tortured by the Embilipitiya police, resulting in her child ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2005 AS-48-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  Lack of police discipline a threat to Sri Lanka’s national development Some of the views expressed...

[RE: UP-17-2005:  SRI LANKA: Lalith Rajapakse freed; Action needs to be taken against the police who falsely charged him, UP-81-2004: SRI LANKA: Continuing death threats to human rights activists and...

This April 28, 46-year-old Sivaram Dharmeratnam became the latest victim of abduction and murder in Sri Lanka. Sivaram, a highly-respected journalist for the Daily Mirror newspaper–where he was ...

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that the police in West Bengal, India have taken little action regarding the murder of 22-year-old Mintu Sheikh o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information concerning a man who died from an adverse reaction due to taking medicine on an empty stomach. Mr. Tilangi Mushhar, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the National Campaign of Dalit Human Rights, (NCDHR, a Jaipur, Rajasthan based Centre for Dalit Rights) and People&...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) that the City Prosecutor in Tagum City, Mindanao, who investigat...