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Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that on 11 January 2006, approximately 125 semi-permanent houses were bulldozed by the local authorities, evictin...
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) writes to inform you that four police officers, including a Sub Inspector of Police, have been arrested regarding the murder of Lalantha Fernando...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another case of brutal torture of a man, D.A. Gayan Rasika (24), by the Welipenna police following his arrest on 7 Ja...
Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that two men were tortured by police officers in Buay Runjung, South Sumatera, Indonesia on 23 November 2005. Ara...
Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a 21-year-old man was tortured by police personnel attached to the Horana police station on 5 January 2006. ...
[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case tran...
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...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a report by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) stating that enquiries are ongoing regarding 20 complaints o...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged gang rape of a woman belonging to a minority community by six men in Hogolpota village, Bagerhat d...
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) writes to inform you that a man was brutally tortured by the police, who subsequently filed fabricated charges against him on 23 December 2005. T...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Task Force against Torture (TFT) of the Rajshahi district that two persons were killed by police fire in the Chapainawabganj...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture and arbitrary detention of Nihal Kithsiri. Nihal was arrested by SI Silva and PC Bandara and taken...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention a situation which is ongoing at the Anuradhapura Hospital Dialyses Unit. In an article that appeared in the D...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to voice our contempt for the systematic practice by the police, military and government officials in the Philippines in showing the f...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Wijethileka who was shot twice in the back by two Opanayake police officers. The victim was ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man, who was arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Kotwali police continues to remain in Barisla jail despi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of a 16-year-old student, Sahan Tharaka, by his teachers and the Assistant Principal of hi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the torture of a man, M.H. Priyantha Minipura (25), by policemen attached to the Ayagama police post following his arr...