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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim has suffered hearing loss after having been severely assaulted by Excise Officers on 17 May 2008. Further...
Dear friends, While the Cyclone Nargis tragedy has continued, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has at the same time been closely following the ongoing cases against persons detained and tried ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a boy, who had been previously beaten by his teacher, was taken to a hospital for his injuries after having been beaten on...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man has been continuously detained without any charge after having been illegally arrested on 31 May 2008. The victim...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat, concerning the case of 27 Dalit families...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of yet another attack on a peaceful gathering of groups advocating religious freedom by a group of Muslims in Jakarta on 1 June...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that Zarganar, a famous comedian in Burma who has been leading some of the relief efforts after Cyclone Nargis, had his hou...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two brothers were arbitrarily arrested on suspicion of being terrorists without any concrete evidence in the middle...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that five men had been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by the Kataragama police on 1 May 2008. One of the victims was admitted ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a torture victim attempted to commit suicide due to the humiliation he suffered after being tortured by policemen a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the victims of land grabbing who went to the residence of Prime Minister Hun Sen to submit their petitions seeking his intervent...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man was arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Kekirawa police while in their custody on 2 May 2008. The ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a police sergeant, who was found by the court to have violated a torture victim’s fundamental rights and is still...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained further information regarding the case of Mr. Lalith Rajapakse. The AHRC has obtained a copy of his affidavit narrating the facts of...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan autho...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man has died in police custody following his arrest after he was falsely accused of stealing a palm oil nut on 26 Mar...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance of two persons, one of them a student, in separate incidents in February and May of this yea...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that police authorities in Yangon had seized dozens of vehicles used by the relief workers to deliver urgently needed food and ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP) in Thailand that a man disappeared after making complaints about corr...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the ill treatment of a couple by the Ahangama police on 26 September 2007. When the wife of the couple asked a...