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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information below about another “honour killing” in Pakistan. In this case, two teenage girls, Ms. Tahmeena, 17, and...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the information that another member of a party list organization has been killed in Mindoro Oriental, Philippines. Isaias Manano J...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that Mr. K.P.Tissa Kumara is being kept in a solitary cell, even though he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the Nagoda Gene...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has just know learned that Mr. K.P.Tissa Kumara, who was severely tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Silva of the Wellipenna Police Station on 3 Februa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of two more cases of police torture in Sri Lanka. It is reported that both victims, Mr. Amal Fernando and Mr. Chandana w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man named Mr. Jinesh died in judicial custody on 20 April 2004 allegedly due to severe torture by the jail ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) about another human rights violation on civilians committed by elemen...

Exactly what happened in Songkhla, Pattani and Yala provinces of Southern Thailand this April 28 is yet to become clear, however, under no circumstances can the killing of at least 107 civilians be ju...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sending you updated information about the situation in Nepal. Please send a letter to the Government of Nepal demanding that they restore the p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that the family of honor killing victim is suffering from the police inaction. According to the information received...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the brutal torture by the Srirampur Police on Sri Tarun Mallick (45) on 10 April 2004.  The police officers from ...

Democratic groups in Nepal are now demonstrating in the capital daily, putting lives and limbs at risk demanding an end to ‘regression’–the abolition of parliament by the king, who h...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about extrajudicial killing of Muthuthanthrige Chamal Ranjith Cooray (30) by the police officers at the Modara (Moratuwa) Poli...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on the continued arrests and detentions of demonstrators in Nepal. According to the information, those detained a...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another case of honor killing from Sindh province, Pakistan. A 36-year-old women named Hazooran was killed by her husband,...

Dear friends Further to the letter by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on defective post mortem procedures in West Bengal (see http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2004/639/) and Urgent Appe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt from the Burma Lawyers’ Council (Thailand) that one woman and one girl are currently in jail in Burma for having attempted to ob...

Dear friends Further to the Asian Human Right Commission’s urgent appeal issued yesterday on the dire situation in Nepal [see http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2004/654/], we have received updat...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another case of police torture in Sri Lanka. Halnetthige Nelsan Perera and Halnetthige Lenith Nuwan Peiris ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from SUARAM, a leading Malaysian human rights group, on targeted arrests of Burmese asylum seekers in Kuala Lumpur. Thirt...