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Sri Lanka: When Law Becomes Comic
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(August 12, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) At one time there existed a department called the Attorney General's department. Its functions were to provide legal advice to the government on all matters of public interest, and to be the prosecuting agency ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Inquire Into The Police Abuse
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Large crowds gathered around the Angulana police station today (13th of August) as the news spread of two schoolboys killed due to police assault. The bodies of the two boys, Dinesh Tharanga Fernando and Danushka Udaya, were found near the railway ... More >>
Cambodia: Appointment Of Judges
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Lately there has been a hectic time within the Cambodian judiciary with the actual and planned retirement and appointments of many judges and prosecutors. The government has retired and replaced half of the members, two ex-officio and two appointed, of ... More >>
Sri Lanka: When The Law Becomes Comic - Part 5
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 6:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
IGP AND HIS DEPUTIES: WHAT DO THEY DO? "After about forty years of civil conflicts, beginning first from the south with the 1971 JVP insurrection, then spreading into the north and east, created a situation within which the public attention drifted ... More >>
AKISTAN: Another Ahmedi is shot dead
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 4:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Another member of the Ahmediyya community, Rana Ata-ul Karim (36) was killed on 6 August 2009 in Multan, Pakistan. He was murdered simply for being an Ahmedi, a minority sect of Islam. More >>
PAKISTAN: Government should Act Agianst Blasphemy
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 3:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Government should take concrete action to amend or abolish the blasphemy laws within a year. As Pakistan marks Minorities Day, Amnesty International calls on the government to take meaningful action to protect religious minorities which have increasingly ... More >>
Statement: Journalist for Democracy in Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:45 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka out rightly condemn the Sri Lankan government’s decision not to allow independent media representatives to cover the first local elections in two main northern cities, Jaffna and Vavunia – which will be the first ... More >>
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 29 July, 2009 the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) announced in a media release that the Government of Bangladesh had decided to withdraw 35 temporary camps, three infantry battalions and a brigade of the armed forces, deployed in the Chittagong ... More >>
Nominate candidates for the 13th Tji Hak
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Greetings of Peace and Justice from Seoul! We are writing this letter to inform you that it's time to nominate candidates for the 13th Tji Hak-soon Justice & Peace Award. More >>
When law becomes comic - Part Three
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:16 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
“There is no reason at all to think that the IGP will take a more serious approach to the conduct of criminal investigations. Perhaps he may not even be in a position to do so. The central institution that creates attitudes relating to crime control ... More >>
Cambodia: Law On The Statute Of Judges
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:47 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Last June the Cambodian government ignored the jurisdiction of the nomination and discipline of judges and prosecutors of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy (SCM) when it bypassed the court and got the King, who is chairman of this supreme judicial ... More >>
Bangladesh: Judicial Independence
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 3:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Government of Bangladesh issued a notification on July 30, 2009 that the country's President had forced the retirement of two Judges -- Mr. Abdul Gafur, the District and Sessions Judge of Dhaka district, and Mr. Md. Shahjahan Shaju, Judge of the Women ... More >>
Open Letter from the ARDF
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 3:53 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
RE: Cover letter for Legal Opinion and Proposal to protect Pol (Abdulla) and every child born on Thai soil from illegal immigrant parents who had been permitted to temporarily reside on special basis (A child born in Thailand, under the provision ... More >>
Pakistan: Militarism Receives A Deathblow
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 12:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 31 July 2009, fourteen judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, led by Chief Justice Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, added a golden page to the global history of the judiciary by protecting its independence and upholding the constitution. More >>
Cambodia: Possibility Of A Fair Trial?
Monday, 3 August 2009, 11:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mu Sochua, a Member of Parliament from the opposition Sam Rainsy party, was tried on 24 July 2009. She was charged with defamation against Prime Minister Hun Sen following her announcement of her own defamation lawsuit against the latter in press conference ... More >>
Egypt: Who Will Stop Slavery?
Friday, 31 July 2009, 11:40 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Some multinational companies in Egypt violate workers' rights after the industrial areas law has been issued to relieve industrial foundations from their legal obligations related to work organization, which has deprived workers in these areas from their ... More >>
Iran: Human rights lawyer released
Friday, 31 July 2009, 11:39 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about the release of the Human Rights lawyer, Shadi Sadr, who was released from jail on July 28, 2009. Please also see AHRC’s forwarded urgent appeal More >>
Sri Lanka: Free Civilians From Detention Camps
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 1:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Keeping several hundred thousand civilians who had been caught in the middle of a war penned in these camps is outrageous. Haven’t they been through enough? They deserve their freedom, like all other Sri Lankans - Brad Adams, Asia director .Eventual ... More >>
Pakistan: The Authority Of The Supreme Court
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 12:59 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan’s former military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf (Retd.) has refused to appear before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Supreme Court issued notice on him to appear before the court in the case of a constitutional petition challenging ... More >>
Israel/Philippines: Deportation Of Entire Families
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 12:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The organizations of migrant workers and advocates for the rights and wellbeing of migrants around the world, urge the Israeli government to reverse its decision to order another massive crackdown on undocumented migrant workers including the deportation ... More >>
