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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, of the illegal detention of Mr. Ashok Gupta by the Serampore pol...

[RE: UA-50-2003: Torture of 14 year old child by police officers, UP-37-2003: The family of 14-year-old torture victim threatened by the police and a local politician; UP-47-2003: SRI LANKA: Torture v...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of Mr Marasinghe Arachchige Anura Dissanayaka by the police sergeant Nimal of the Wadduwa Police S...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that railway staff Mohammad Musharaf Hossain was severely assaulted by two police escorts of senior police officers in West B...

[RE: UA-112-2004: BURMA: Complaints against forced labour blocked and victims punished issued on 3 September 2004] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that o...

The establishment of the ‘People¡¦s Committee for the Establishment of the Rule of Law Again’ by a group of concerned people is a welcome move. At the very inception of such well-intenti...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2005 AS-13-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission February will be a chilling month for Democrats, Human Rights Workers and Media in Nepal  Despite in...

Democracy in Cambodia was plunged into a serious crisis as the Parliament withdrew parliamentary immunity to Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy and two other members of Parliament from his ...

INDIA: Calcutta high court instruct the West Bengal government to inquire into custodial death of a young man Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wants to share an update with you regardin...

[RE: UP-04-2005: THAILAND: Repeated torture at Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Police Station; UA-170-2004: Anther case of torture to obtain confession at Ayutthaya Police Station, UP-75-2004: Demand immedia...

The situation in Nepal following King Gyanendra’s dismissal of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s cabinet and his formation of a new government of which he is the head, poses some hard qu...

This year’s Independence Day is celebrated amidst a complex background. The disastrous consequences of the 26 December 2004 tsunami have merely added to the burdens faced by Sri Lanka’s politic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that Rabin Hansda, a 34 year-old mentally ill man, was killed by...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a disabled police constable was brutally tortured by the Bandaragama police after being illegally arrested on 17 Ja...

The situation in Katmandu and the rest of Nepal at the moment since the formal dismissal of the government on February 1, 2005, by King Gyanendra and his takeover through the declaration of a state of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2005 AS-08-2005 A statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Malaysia should be more humane on migrants and the crackdown must stopped The Government of Malaysia ...

Nearly a week has passed since the Thai Ministry of Defence announced the setting up of a panel to investigate three officers implicated in the killing of at least 85 persons by security forces in Nar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two men named Rajendra (Raju) Kale and Anna Lashkare, along with six other persons, were inhumanely tortured on 7 N...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that a young man named Kartik Ghosh committed suicide after bein...

[RE: UA-03-2004: A man who gave up illicit liquor sale was tortured by police from the Katugastota Police Station on 12 January 2004 and UP-72-2004: A torture victim has received threats by Katugastot...