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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of further death threats to torture victim and tuberculosis patient Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara, since he has be...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of the Indian non-governmental organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan (...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of the information that several officers of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka has been harassed and intimidated...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the defense lawyer of R.K.L.G. Dingiri Banda who had filed a Fundamental Rights application before the Supreme Cour...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed of a letter sent by the Bar Association to the Wattala police station, in which the lawyers complained that police officers have been i...

On July 1 last year, more than 500,000 people took to the streets of Hong Kong. It was the sixth anniversary of China’s resumption of sovereignty, and they marched against the Hong Kong governme...

Dear friends The justice dispensation system in Sri Lanka suffers from the petty mindedness of the Government, which often fails to recognize the necessity for infrastructure for its proper functionin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 23 June 2004, the Trincomalee Magistrate ordered the exhumation of Mr. Senarath Hettiarchchilage Abeysinghe̵...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that seven persons who faced re-arrest by the police after their release from Banke Prison Nepalgunj on 23 June 2004, went...

Dear friends, Please send a letter to the President of India and Supreme Court of India and ask them to commute the death sentence of Mr. Dhananjoy Chatterjee! The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)...

Torture is the most serious obstacle to the advancement of human rights in Asia, whether civil and political rights or economic, social and cultural rights. This is because torture is the prime genera...

As the world commemorates the International Day against Torture 2004, the countries of South Asia continue to be known only for their collective record of endemic torture. From the pre-colonial period...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two arbitrary arrest and torture cases from Nepal. According to the information we have received, Satya Narayan Bhagat (32), a membe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the murder of Charoen Wat-aksorn (37) in Prachuap Khiri Khan provincial town on 21 June 2004. The two perpetrators have n...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned at the death threats to the family of torture victim Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara. According to the information receiv...

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a case of illegal arrest, detention and severe torture has taken place in Gurutalawa, Sri Lanka. Moningal Akila ...

Dear friends, We call for your immediate intervention! The lives of people who were released from prison with a court order are at risk. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received informati...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received additional information about the killing of Irfan Khokhar in Pakistan (Refer to: UA-49-2004 and UP-24-2004). The victim’s f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw attention to the fact that tomorrow, June 22, the preliminary decision will be given in a civil suit of extreme importance for all...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Kolavan (60 years) was severely tortured at the Thrithala Police Station on 8February 2004. It i...