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INDIA: The murder of the ‘other’
Saturday, 9 September 2017, 2:29 pm | AHRC
INDIA: The murder of the ‘other’ ‘In India, Another Government Critic Is Silenced by Bullets’, is how the New York Times reported the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a gutsy journalist known for her fierce opposition of the religious right wing regime ... More >>
Rohingya exodus continues
Saturday, 9 September 2017, 2:28 pm | AHRC
AHRC TV: Rohingya exodus continues as satellite images reveal burning villages and other stories in JUST ASIA, Episode 187 This week Just Asia begins with Burma, where Rohingya refugees continue streaming to Bangladesh after violence erupted in Rakhine ... More >>
NEPAL: Flood menace in Nepal’s Terai
Friday, 8 September 2017, 6:49 pm | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and Terai Human Rights Defenders Alliance (THRDA) are extremely concerned over the Government of Nepal's slow response to the flood affected Terai region. Continuous four-day heavy rains since 10 August 2017 ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Policing system plagued by pervasive corruption
Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 7:57 pm | AHRC
When thinking of police officers in Pakistan, inept, corrupt and intimidating are some of the first thoughts that come to mind. Their attitude towards complainants and victims of crime are particularly devoid of civility. In fact, complainants are ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Agencies using blasphemy to gag criticism
Monday, 21 August 2017, 7:59 pm | AHRC
PAKISTAN: Intelligence agencies using blasphemy to gag criticism of its atrocities Blogger Ahmed Waqas Goraya, who disappeared earlier this year along with four other social media activists, has recently revealed the names of his abductors. Mr. Goraya ... More >>
Stop the Unlawful Detention of Bangladeshi Migrants
Saturday, 19 August 2017, 12:03 pm | AHRC
In May 2017, a young boy was apprehended by Border Security Force(BSF) officers in Dinajpur, West Bengal. MASUM, our partner organisation in West Bengal conducted a fact-finding mission and discovered that almost 18 months before the incident, his ... More >>
INDIA: Independence Day for cows as hospitals massacre
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 4:19 pm | AHRC
How exactly can one react to a republic that lets more than 60 of its children die in just 48 hours for the want of oxygen as the company supplying oxygen to the hospital had stopped it after repeated warnings for the same over non-payment of Rs. 68 Lakhs? ... More >>
PAKISTAN: A tribute to Dr. Ruth Pfau
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:34 pm | AHRC
PAKISTAN: A tribute to Dr. Ruth Pfau: who successfully fought and controlled leprosy in country More >>
SRI LANKA: Is the Criminal Procedure Act still valid?
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 12:33 pm | AHRC
The procedures that should be followed by the police in the investigations into crime are found in the Criminal Procedure Code of Sri Lanka (CPC). Ever since the British introduced the basic procedures for investigations of crime based on their own laws, ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Without respect for law legal prof will flounder
Saturday, 5 August 2017, 2:53 pm | AHRC
The darker side of Pakistan’s lawyers’ cartel has been exposed in the case of law student Khadija Siddiqui, who was stabbed 23 times by her class fellow, Shah Husain, the son of a senior Supreme Court lawyer. After this horrific attack, Khadija ... More >>
PAKISTAN: State complicity abetting Hazara bloodbath
Saturday, 22 July 2017, 2:09 pm | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the recent spate of attacks on the Hazara community in Balochistan province. In the most recent incident, four family members belonging to the ethnic Hazara Shia community and their driver were ... More >>
INDIA: Curious case of self-pricing tomatoes
Saturday, 15 July 2017, 1:17 pm | AHRC
INDIA: Curious case of anti-farmer, anti-consumer, self-pricing tomatoes Avinash Pandey Looking at the pattern of tomato pricing in India, year after year, could lead one to believe that tomatoes are pricing themselves, evilly conspiring against ... More >>
CHINA: A state built on graves will not last
Friday, 14 July 2017, 6:25 pm | AHRC
China has lost yesterday one of its great sons, Nobel Laurate Mr. Liu Xiaobo. Indeed, Liu Xiaobo was a criminal for the Chinese administration. They had sentenced him to undergo a prison term of 11 years, after being convicted by what is passed off ... More >>
Questions arising from the abduction of Farhad Mazhar
Saturday, 8 July 2017, 1:52 pm | AHRC
Law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh have announced on 3 July 2017, that at 11:30 pm they have ‘rescued’ Mr. Farhad Mazhar from a Dhaka bound passenger bus at Noapara in the south-western district Jessore, bordering India. The police later ... More >>
Investigative journalist manhandled and threatened
Saturday, 8 July 2017, 1:51 pm | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Hong Kong based Nepali investigative journalist, Mr. JB Pun Magar, has been attacked and threatened for writing on issues relating to the Nepalese community residing in Hong Kong. Mr. ... More >>
NEPAL: Government and police collude in rotten power play
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 8:18 pm | AHRC
NEPAL: Government and police collude in rotten power play For the past several years, the Asian Human Rights Commission has been reporting on the widespread practice of abuse of power by the Nepal Police. The extent of abuse of power and politicization ... More >>
SRI LANKA/WORLD: Rapid collapse of the secular state
Saturday, 24 June 2017, 6:23 pm | AHRC
The events that unfolded this week shockingly foretells the story of the very rapid collapse of the secular state in Sri Lanka. Although, the events around which a new melodrama unfolded in Sri Lanka were some trivial events of several warrants issued ... More >>
INDIA: A country where torture is the norm
Saturday, 24 June 2017, 6:22 pm | AHRC
India is the only country in Asia that has during the past seven decades remained a parliamentary democracy, having elected its government through a transparent and accountable democratic process. Its judiciary is independent, and its administrative ... More >>
INDONESIA: Torture occurs repeatedly
Saturday, 24 June 2017, 6:21 pm | AHRC
INDONESIA: Torture occurs repeatedly as perpetrators enjoy impunity Torture remains a serious problem in Indonesia, even after 18 years of police and legal reform. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has noted some fundamental problems that prevent ... More >>
Civilian casualties in wake of Philippines’ martial law
Saturday, 3 June 2017, 3:52 pm | AHRC
Civilian casualties in wake of Philippines’ martial law and other stories in JUST ASIA, Episode 173 This week Just Asia begins with civilian casualties in the aftermath of martial law imposed in Mindanao, Philippines. One ethnic Moro resident was killed ... More >>
