Press Releases

(Hong Kong, January 4, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is publishing below the full text of the interview made by a radio host with one of the three journalists who had escaped from the...

(Hong Kong, December 11, 2009) The Muslim-Christian Community of Hong Kong (MCC-HK) is once more getting together at Chater Road on Sunday, December 13, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The MCC-HK ...

(Hong Kong, December 9, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today launched an online petition to call upon the members of the Philippine Congress to revoke a proclamation which placed the p...

(Hong Kong, November 17, 2009) Two Catholic Priests and a group of indigenous people from Mindoro Island have commenced a hunger strike of indefinite length in Manila to protest an impending mining op...

Hong Kong, October 28, 2009  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that after Soeharto’s fall there is no significant progress in the resolution of the past human right abuses w...

SRI LANKA: Journalist complains of death threats and unknown persons pursuing him (Hong Kong, October 21, 2009) Mr. Senaka Ekanayake, the editor of SATANA, a local newspaper, complained of constant de...

(Hong Kong, October 6, 2009)  Between 1997 and 1998, 24 student activists in Indonesia, who challenged Suhartoe’s New Order regime disappeared by an abduction of the Army Special Forces Command...

(Hong Kong, September 22, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the assurance given by the chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Philippines (CHR) that she would...

(Hong Kong, September 16, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission today launched an urgent appeal demanding the Repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and .  The online appeal calls for eve...

(Hong Kong, September 17, 2009)  The civil groups in Hong Kong have learned that on September 2, the government released a statement regarding the increasing of the minimum food allowance for foreign...

(Hong Kong, September 4, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has reliably learnt that the alleged extract of the Udalagama Commission of Inquiry Report published in the Lakbima newspaper and subse...

(Hong Kong, August 13, 2009) We wish to inform you about an interview, in its entirety, with ‘sisaIN’, a weekly magazine in Korea, concerning the independence of the National . The intervi...

(Hong Kong, June 26, 2009) To mark the United Nation’s Day in Support of Victims of Torture today, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) launched its latest publication in Manila entitled: “Abadi...

(Hong Kong, June 25, 2009) Mr. Muzibur Rahman is a businessman who farms shrimp in Pakigachha in the Khulna district of Bangladesh, but on January 23, 2007 he was arrested and tortured by army officer...

(Hong Kong, June 23, 2009) With the practice of torture rampant across Asia, it remains one of the most serious obstacles to social health. To battle this injustice, the Asian Human Rights Commission ...

(Hong Kong, June 24, 2009) Three years ago, Axel Pinpin, a researcher and public information officer for a local peasant group, was abducted and briefly disappeared together with four other persons. O...

(Hong Kong, June, 2, 2009) As President Obama is to visit the Saudi Arabian authorities tomorrow the Asian Human Rights Commission has issued an appeal for him to intervene on behalf of Rizana Nafeek ...

(Hong Kong, 20 May, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has broadcast an interview with Ms. Mandira Sharma, prominent human rights lawyer and director of Nepalese NGO, Advocacy Forum. In the inter...

US Re-Engagement and Defeat of Azerbaijan Are Positive Results (New York, May 12, 2009) – The United Nations General Assembly’s election of Human Rights Council members today was marred by lack...

(Phnom Penh, 22 April 2009) The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) are pleased to announce that a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) R...