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CAMBODIA: AHRC condemns the lawless imprisonment of 13 women who were peacefully demonstrating to...

We are shocked by the total disregard for fair trial by the Phnom Penh municipal court, which summarily sentenced 13 women activists who engaged in peaceful...

THAILAND: Court to read verdict in landmark freedom of expression case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn...

On 30 May 2012, at 10 am in the Criminal Court in Bangkok, the verdict in the case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, charged with ten counts of allegedly violating...

Nabeel Rajab released on bail in Bahrain; Bahrain Coordinating Committee calls for dismissal of...

The Bahrain Coordinating Committee supports the exercise of free political expression, and advocates for the dismissal of charges against Bahraini activist...

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja ends hunger strike; Bahrain Coordinating Committee calls for his release

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, the imprisoned human rights activist on trial for leading protests in Bahrain, ended his 110-day hunger strike today. The Bahrain...

INDIA: BSF bludgeoned a boy, then shoot him

This case is about the torture and attempted murder of Sanjit Mondal on 15 April 2011 in yet another case of Border Security Forces (BSF) brutality in West...

PAKISTAN: The Supreme Court must clarify the comments of the Chief Justice on the possible...

In a surprising move the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry has shown his inclination towards the imposition of Emergency Regulations in the...

INDONESIA: Judgement by the Supreme Court upholding freedom of religion disregarded by police and...

Ongoing threats and intimidation by villagers of Jejalen Jaya towards Reverend Palti Panjaitan and the congregation of Batak Protestant Church (HKBP)...

INDIA: Endemic brutality of the BSF

The gruesome murder of 21-year-old Babu Seikh on 22 April 2012 in yet another case of Border Security Forces (BSF) brutality in West Bengal, India.

INDONESIA: Ahmadiyah members in Batam are threatened, ill-treated and illegally arrested with the...

(AHRC) has received information regarding intimidation from the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) towards Ahmadiyah in Batam.

BURMA: Lawyers can get revoked licences back, govt says

Lawyers and other professionals who have lost their licences for prior involvement in politics can now apply to get them back, according to copies of...

INDIA: Senseless police brutality

Another case of illegal arrest, detention and police brutality against Mr Golam Kibria from Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India.

INDONESIA: Police tortured and denied a drug offender's access to legal counsel and medical...

We received information regarding the torture, allegedly committed by the police officers of Narcotics Department of North Sumatra Provincial Police, on...

INDONESIA: Government's denial at UN UPR very disappointing

Today, the Indonesia's human rights record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council in the 13th session of the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva,...

SRI LANKA: AG's threat to Hirunika Premachandra to file contempt of court charges amounts to...

The Asian Human Rights Commission urges the Attorney General's department to desist from the misuse of the contempt of court proceedings for political...

MYANMAR: Release critically ill Phyo Wai Aung without delay

On 21 May 2012 Dr Kyaw Swar Lin and consultant radiologist Dr Yi Yi Lwin of the New Yangon General Hospital carried out a full CT scan of Phyo Wai Aung.

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SRI LANKA: Kandy High Court sentences an accused to 20 years for rape

The High Court judge noted that the accused was 43 years of age at the time of the rape, a married man with children and the accused was only 13.

INDONESIA: A great deal of homework on religious freedom for the newly inaugurated Bekasi regent

The Asian Human Rights Commission (the AHRC) congratulates you on being recently inaugurated as the new Regent of Bekasi.

Max Davis Unveils the World’s Greatest Game Ever! Where are Peter Thiel and Bill Gross When...

After over four years of research and development, mobile content producer Max Davis announced the launch date for what he believes to be, “the world’s...

SRI LANKA: Is the legal intellect dead in Sri Lanka?

The President of Sri Lanka has the power to frame charges and to remove the liberty of any citizen.

PHILIPPINES: Gunmen killed a government worker opposing construction of a dam that threatens to...

A government employee, who opposed the construction of a huge dam that threatens to submerge the villages of indigenous communities, has been killed.

INDIA: What Aamir Khan does is good and is done perfectly

Aamir Khan is a topmost name in India's film industry. I am not familiar at all with Indian films in recent times but I know his name, as almost...

SRI LANKA: The Police Torture Epidemic in Sri Lanka -- a documentary

In this film several victims talk about their experience of torture by the Sri Lankan police and the continuing ordeals they suffer, psychologically and...

SRI LANKA: Former AG, Mohan Peiris summoned to court in disappearance inquiry of Prageeth Eknaligoda

The former Attorney General, Mohan Peiris, has been ordered to appear before the Homagama Magistrate's Court and to reveal what he knows about the...

SOUTH ASIA: The police as the spoiler of criminal investigations

It is on this very relationship between the police and the public that the functioning of any civilised society in modern day rule of law terms revolves around.

SRI LANKA: The Domestic Violence Act and the actual situation

We can define domestic violence as such: physical, mental, sexual and economic abuse caused by hurtful or unwanted behavior, perpetrated by one member of a...

SRI LANKA: Concern over the safety of the Bishop of Mannar, Rev Joseph Rayappu

We are concerned of safety of Bishop of Mannar, Reverend Joseph Rayappu who has a long-standing record of being a spokesperson on the democratic rights of...

PHILIPPINES: Two journalists killed, two others receive threats in separate incidents in Mindanao

(AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that two journalists have been killed while two others have received threats in separate incidents in April and May.

INDIA: Dowry death attempted to be covered up by local police and the child of the victim at risk

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, concerning the case of murder of a woman allegedly by her in laws.

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INDIA: An innocent person tortured by West Bengal police on suspicion

We have received information from MASUM, concerning the case of torture of an innocent person by the West Bengal state police.

INDONESIA: Police failed to protect Ahmadiyah mosque from attacks by Islamic fundamentalist group...

There's an attack directed by an Islamic fundamentalist group, Islam Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) towards an Ahmadiyah mosque in...

PHILIPPINES: Massive displacement of indigenous villagers in Agusan del Norte due to military...

We are deeply concerned about the military operations in Agusan del Norte that led to massive displacement of indigenous communities.

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The Agenda 21 Scheme Erodes Your Freedom and Liberty

The Agenda 21 scheme is a business and job killing abridgement of individual freedom, private property rights and much of the United States Constitution....

NEPAL: Concern over the condition of the elderly, women and children rendered homeless by evictions

Condemns the excessive use of force and the lack of due process in the eviction of the community living in the squatter settlements in Thapathali, Kathmandu...

PAVE Launch of New Multi-Media Tool Kit for Moms to Talk to Their Kids About Sexual Abuse

This Mother’s Day, PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment will launch Moms Shattering the Silence, a multi-media guidebook for mothers to talk to...

PAKISTAN: Human rights defenders were tortured during jail custody in Gilgit-Baltistan

Human rights defenders, Mr. Baba Jan Hunzai along with four companions was brutally tortured by the police and military intelligence, ISI, officials while in...

BURMA: AHRC condemns death sentence for torture victim

District Judge Aung Thein presiding over a closed court in the central prison on Tuesday convicted the accused, Phyo Wai Aung, in four cases concerning the...

BURMA: Court sentences ailing Phyo Wai Aung to death after patently unjust trial

We regret to inform you that a judge in a closed courtroom at the central prison in Burma on May 8 sentenced Phyo Wai Aung, the accused in a bombing case...

THAILAND: Death in custody of 61-year old grandfather jailed for allegedly sending four SMS messages

The death in custody of Amphon Tangnoppakul indicates that the price of loyalty is too high: a man has paid for four SMS messages with his life.

Labor union refuses to excesses of the International Labour Office .. And confirms: state...

Dr. Ahmed Abdalazahr, President of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Egypt send complaint to Juan Somavia, ILO Director, called a halt to what he...

PAKISTAN: A maimed democracy that denies its citizens the right to vote

The Asian Human Rights Commission has had discussions with the leaders of the Ahmadis, a religious minority community of Islam, at Lahore, Punjab province.

PHILIPPINES: Arbitrary detention resulting from fabrication of charges against five people in...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the arbitrary detention of five persons, including a minor, in Nueva Ecija province.

THAILAND: Concerns over delayed verdict in criminal case against free media advocate

On 30 April 2012, the Criminal Court in Bangkok was scheduled to read its verdict in Black Case No. 1667/2553 on ten alleged violations of the 2007 Computer...

PAKISTAN: Forcible eviction of fisherfolks by a government organization in the name of so-called...

Small Dams Organization (SDO) of Punjab Irrigation and Power Department has served 31 eviction notices on hundreds of fisherfolk living besides the Shahpur...

Inspire Hope - Be A Voice Campaign Shatters Silence Surrounding Domestic Abuse

The 'Inspire Hope - Be A Voice' campaign by Domestic Violence UK aims to use social media and the internet to shatter the silence around domestic...

East Lothian Council turns North High Street, Musselburgh into a Junk Food and Takeaway dumping...

East Lothian Council’s planning department has given planning permission to open another takeaway in Fisherrow, Musselburgh a tiny area with eight...