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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the extra-judicial killing of 13 men by the authorities in Sahiwal district, Punjab province on 10 February 20...

Audio Recording Calls Into Question Government’s Commitment to Fair Elections   (New York, February 15, 2008) – In an audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch (http://hrw.org/audio/2008/u...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the deteriorating health of a Pakistani prisoner detained in a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prison...

The detention of Mr. Iftekhar Choudhry, the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, has now run into its 100th day and during his detention all the members of his family, including his school-going childre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the refusal of the police to register a complaint and file charges against a provincial minister and his armed...

Three prominent lawyers who spearheaded the movement of lawyers, were again arrested and detained for a further month under the maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO). Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan, President...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan to various heads of states ...

The reports coming out of Pakistan state that a group of 100 ex-military personnel including former generals, admirals, air marshals and other retired officers are calling for the resignation of Presi...

President Musharraf, while talking to a gathering of 800 Pakistanis in London, has asked the overseas Pakistanis to “put one, two or three punches” to Pakistani journalists who are destroy...

Today, January 23, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to announce that it has decided to grant its 3rd jointly to Muneer Malik, former President of the...

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) call for: The immediate unconditional release of all jurists arrested und...

As the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan is being treated by the military as a threat to national security 55 judges remain un-constitutionally retired out of which 13 are from the Supreme Cou...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-013-2008 January 14, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Boycott of courts by lawyers enters 75th day and the government’s attacks on...

PAKISTAN: The exclusive interview with Munir Malik to We are publishing an interview with Munir Malik, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association who was imprisoned and given drugs unde...

A bomb exploded in Lahore, the capital city of Punjab province, on January 10, killing more than 30 persons and injuring 70, mostly policemen, outside the Lahore High Court building where lawyers had ...

After the enormous reaction to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and a popular politician, the Musharraf government has registered more than 3,000 cases against more than ...

Six journalists were killed, three of them while performing their professional duties, 73 were injured, mostly by the police in the worst year for? the journalists?in a decade while media remained und...

The two daughters of Ms. Asma Jehangir, a well known lawyer, human rights activist and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of religion or belief, were assaulted and illegally...

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who was the leader of one of the best known political parties in Pakistan that was contesting the election to be held on the 8th January 2008, reflects the nature ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Information Press Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Information Press forw...