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Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) on arbitrary arrest and torture of two young men in a Kathmandu police stati...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that the Appellate Court in Thailand ordered the extradition of Mr. Sok Yoeun to Cambodia on 28 November 2003. Mr. Sok Yoeun ...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one Dalit woman’s house in Baglung district was burnt down by her upper caste neighbor on 13 November 2003, af...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Korean-German scholar Song Du-yul, 59, was indicted by the prosecution for violating the National Security Law on 19...

Thirty-eight persons from ten Asian countries gathered together at Wattala, Sri Lanka, from November 14 to 24, 2003, for the annual Human Rights School Session jointly organised by the Religious Group...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that S.L. Kulatunga had serious head injuries after being tortured by the Nivithigala police and died at the Genral Hospital of Colomb...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two migrant workers who were facing forced deportation by the Korean government have committed suicide. It is estim...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police searched the premises of the People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu, a prominent human rights organization in Ta...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes with grave concern that the father and mother of torture victim Dawundage Pushpakumara (14 years old) have left their home due to threats fr...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on killings of two teenage boys by army soldiers. Even though there was...

By suspending parliament and calling the police and military onto the streets this November 4, the President of Sri Lanka has undermined ongoing efforts to restore the rule of law to the country by wa...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 16-year old boy was brutally tortured by the police. The manner of torture was so brutal that clear evidence of viol...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a seven-year-old boy has been illegally detained and tortured by the police from the Polpithigame Police Station. Ac...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission is forwarding information from the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) on harassment and detention by the Indian government of a group of people living wi...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) regardi...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Korean-German scholar Song Du-yul, 59, who returned to Republic of Korea (ROK) after 37 years of exile in Germany, w...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on another serious torture case in Sri Lanka. According to information we have received, an innocent man was brutally tor...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two young girls, Janaki Chaudhari (16 years old) and Chinki Chaudhari (14 years old), were gang-raped by seven armed...

Dear friends The Asian human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man died in police custody at the Hogelberia Police Station in West Bengal, India. The reason of his death is clea...