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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fabricated case filed against Ramesh Narsibhai Vasava, an adivasi, after he was shot by a Forest Departme...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that adivasis (indigenous people) in the Dangs District in the Indian state of Gujarat are living in fear as a Hindu festival in th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our partner organisation from Manipur, India that the security forces deployed in Manipur are engaged in murder, ar...

[Re: HU-09-2005: UPDATE (India): Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims and continued starvation death in Murshidabad, West Bengal; HU-07-2005: Starvation...

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...

[Re: HA-23-2005: INDIA: Villagers exploited by employment in slave like conditions due to lack of food and terrible living conditions] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recei...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation in West Bengal, India about the shocking state of the lower judiciary in W...

Serious irregularities in judicial proceedings at the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Barrackpore, West Bengal speak to how India’s lower judiciary is being run by police. Accordin...

Dear friends, On 11 October 2004, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an urgent appeal regarding the illegal arrest of 16 human rights defenders in Tamil Nadu, India (UA-134-2004). On that...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights group working in Uttar Prades...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been in communication with the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand about the failure of local police to investigat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group in Uttar Pradesh, India of at least three confirmed cases involving the tribal members of the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a man and the assault of and verbal abuse against a human rights defender by the Inspector-in-C...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the police shootout at protestors in Orissa, India which h...

INDIA: Feudal lords attack Daliths for claiming proper wage, while police refuse to take action and pressure the victim to withdraw complaint in Uttar Pradesh, India INDIA: Racial discrimination, murd...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three police officers responsible for the custody and murder of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, was arrested and later ...

INDIA: Police brutality, torture, lack of action by the National Human Rights Commission and failure of rule of law ————————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, a local nongovernmental organisation about the arrest and torture of an innocent person by...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) sends greetings to everyone, wishing them a Happy Christmas and New Year. We wish particularly to extend our greetings to those members of our network from aro...

[Re: UA-138-2005: INDIA: Human rights activist facing death threats for working with Dalit and Backward Community, UP-95-2005: INDIA: Another human rights activist threatened for working with Dalits i...