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Judicial process must not overlap legal process
Sunday, 17 January 2010, 11:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
There is serious concern about the conduct of the judiciary in Pakistan. In a country where all manner of informal justice mechanisms, based on tribal and religious norms dispense arbitrary and discriminatory justice, the citizenry looks towards the formal ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Next 12 Days Another Time Of Terror?
Friday, 15 January 2010, 8:59 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The presidential election will take place on the 26th of January. The campaign leading to the election took a bloody turn yesterday (13th of January 2010) with the killing of Kusumawahi Kurupuarachi at Hungama in Tangalle in Hambanthota district More >>
SRI LANKA: Responsibility For A Killing
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 9:48 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The killing of even one person signals a turn for the worst in the presidential election in Sri Lanka. The attack on the bus carrying the supporters of the opposition candidate was carried out in a manner that reeks of the organized violence practiced in previous ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Severe Overcrowding At Bogambara Prison
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:55 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Commission expresses its serious concern over the conditions of overcrowding in Bogambara prison. The government should take notice of the situation and take measures to deal with the unnecessary suffering caused to the prisoners due to overcrowding. More >>
PAKISTAN: Expedite Domestic Violence Legislation
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Pakistani government should quickly reintroduce legislation to protect women and children from domestic violence, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Migration in Thailand, Registration Or Deportation
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 4:52 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 20th January (or in just 8 working days) the end of the “permission to stay and work in Thailand for one year, pending deportation” for 61, 543 Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian migrants who “illegally” entered the country will arrive. More >>
SRI LANKA: PTA Prisoners In Critical Condition
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 9:35 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Four Tamil prison inmates in Jaffna Prison were hospitalised today, 11th January, after they had fallen seriously ill due to a hunger strike they had undertaken for their release from detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. More >>
BURMA: 20-Year Jail Sentence For Reporter
Friday, 8 January 2010, 10:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Reporters without Borders and the Burma Media Association are appalled by the 20-year jail sentence that a court has just imposed on Hla Hla Win, a freelance video reporter who provided material to the Burmese exile broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma. More >>
PAKISTAN: A Retired Ahmadi Professor Murdered
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 3:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is with great sadness that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat confirms that another member of its community, Retired Professor Muhammad Yusuf (aged 70) was killed earlier today by two masked gunmen in Lahore.They immediately fired two shots at Professor Yusuf ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Discussions On 1978 Constitution
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 2:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Sirasa Rupavahini Television Service has conducted a series of discussions on the 1978 Constitution. This series has brought to focus some of the fundamental defects of this Constitution. More >>
SRI LANKA: Political Patronage For Murder
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 10:41 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
An assassination in Sri Lanka one year ago became international news.It was the assassination in broad daylight of Lasantha Wickrematunge a well known journalists and editor of a newspaper, the Sunday Leader. More >>
PAKISTAN: Supreme Court Decision Targets A Few
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 10:33 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The former judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice (retired) Nasir Aslam Zahid was interviewed by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the decision of Pakistan’s Supreme Court of December 16, 2009 ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Presidential System Based On Distrust
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 10:24 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The development of the Sri Lankan constitutions from 1972 was mainly based on the distrust that began to manifest itself after the system of governance introduced through the 1947 Constitution was in existence for several decades. More >>
THAILAND:Need For Effective Witness Protection
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 12:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Open Letter from Ms. Angkana Neelapaijit to Thai Prime Minister Previous governments have been criticized for not giving importance to several prominent cases and failing to uphold justice. Investigation of important cases had been retarded and the injured ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Sindh Should Be Prosecuted
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 11:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
journalist was attacked and seriously injured by office bearers of a political party, the Sindh Nationalist Front (SNF), on December 31, 2009. Bhutto and his political party are notorious for violence against their opponents. They are particularly abusive ... More >>
Thailand: A Grave Jeopardy To A Key Criminal Case
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 10:03 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It was reported that on the night of 11 December 2009, Mr. Abduloh Abukaree went missing while returning from a teashop, not far a way from his home in Ra-ngae district, Narathiwat Province. His disappearance has been reported by his relatives to the ... More >>
Pakistan: National Reconciliation Ordinance
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 10:01 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
There is thunderous applause for bringing the accused plunderers and criminals to justice and widespread speculation on the resignation of the president. Very little analysis is being done on the overall effect of the judgment itself. More >>
Thailand: Human Rights Subcommittee of Police
Monday, 21 December 2009, 4:47 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Although the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Thailand has not yet posted the details of its new subcommittees on specific issues to its website, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained details of their current membership. More >>
Seoul City Fails To Respect And Protect Rights
Monday, 21 December 2009, 10:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 2 December 2009, 66 year-old man, Mr. Kim committed suicide. He lived in a Yong Gang apartment which was in the process of being demolished by Seoul metropolitan government under a redevelopment project called ‘Han river Renaissance’ which ... More >>
Philippines: Who Were The Massacred Journalists?
Friday, 18 December 2009, 1:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Before writing for community newspapers and national dailies in the recent years, forty-six-year-old Ian 'Joker’ Subang was a veteran broadcast journalist, having worked in the local broadcast industry for decades. More >>
