Forwarded Statement

The AHRC forwards a reflection on the current workings of some sections of the Sri Lankan media in relation to a recent case involving a head of the international non-governmental organisation (INGO) and the death of a young journalist as a result of a car accident recently. The reflection is written by a writer who […]

From: RSF ASIA <asie@rsf.org> Subject: SRI LANKA: Army said to be holding Tamil journalist who 23 March 2007 Following the police chief’s recent admission that the security forces have been involved in abductions, Reporters Without Borders today said it was in a position to affirm that the military participated in the arrest of journalist Subramaniam […]

It has been eight years since the so-called ‘reformation’ was launched. It has also been eight years since extraordinary human rights abuse have nearly been forgotten. Regimes come and go, but since then, when Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was in power, there has been no justice available to modern day victims. SBY’s administration has failed to […]

FORUM-ASIA has joined with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Amnesty International (AI), the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Franciscans International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), The International Service for Human Rights […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement from the editorial board of Maubima, a Sunday newspaper. Some of their staff are alleged to have been harassed, arrested and detained for political reasons. When this same newspaper attacked the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) baselessly in December […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press statement by Professor Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur PHILIPPINES: Press Statement by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement from PREDA, PHILIPPINES: Harvesting the body parts of the poor is sinful exploitation. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) PHILIPPINES: Harvesting the body parts of the poor is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Reporters without Borders (RSF ASIA) – Tamil newspapers correspondent goes missing in the North. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Tamil newspapers correspondent goes […]

11th February 2007 Odhikar From 12 January to 10 February 2007 during the total 29 persons have been reportedly killed and 52027 persons have been arrested. Of the 29 people killed by law enforcement agencies, 11 persons were killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), 9 by police, 6 by the army and 3 by joint forces. Of those 29 people who were killed by the law enforcement agencies across the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement which appeared in the Phnom Penh Post:  AHRC Fernando: “rule of law in Cambodia is being deliberately hindered by the elite who are benefiting financially from their draconian grip on power” Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A […]

Scholars At Risk (SAR), an international network of universities and colleges dedicated to promoting academic freedom and its constituent freedoms of thought, opinion and expression -freedoms essential to any healthy society, operating from New York, has written Thursday to the President of Sri Lanka expressing concern about the disappearance of Professor S. Raveendranath, Vice Chancellor […]

The following report appeared in the BBC Sinhala Service on February 5, 2007 No suspects arrested six months after the murder of 17 aid workers A Paris based charity has called on Sri Lanka government to establish a witness protection programme to increase the efficiency of investigations of human rights abuses. Action Against Hunger (AAH), […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the statement issued by Migrant CARE on the “19 Indonesian Migrant Workers facing death penalty abroad”. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) INDONESIA: 19 Indonesian Migrant Workers facing death penalty abroad […]

Sri Lanka Area: 65,610 sq. km. Population: 20,743,000. Languages: Sinhala,Tamil, English. Head of state: Mahinda Rajapakse. Sri Lanka – Annual report 2007 The resumption of the civil war had dramatic consequences for Sri Lankan journalists and in particular the Tamils. Seven media workers were killed in 2006. Pro-government militia (predators of press freedom) and occasionally […]

Why reluctance on the part of Indonesia to address the past human rights abuses? The Commission for Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Indonesian Association of Families of the Disappeared (Ikohi) are very disappointed to learn that the DPR (House of Representative/Parliement) and the Supreme Prosecutor have failed to address the resolution on […]

The Ad-Hoc Human Rights Court (tribunal) for the Tanjung Priok case has been concluded. All suspects have been released. However, the Indonesian government has ignored the suffering of the families of the victims, of torture and disappearances. Besides, one important fact has been ignored by the court. In the appeal court decision for Sutrisno Mascung […]

As protests by farming communities fearing displacement from their land as a result of a new industrial project continue to lead to violence in West Bengal (Eastern India), Amnesty International is concerned at reports that state officials may be responsible for, or complicit in, human rights abuses including torture and the death or injury of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement by the Rt. Revd. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo SRI LANKA: Resist violence – make 2007 a year of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK) on the current situation of the Tea Plantation Workers. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: current […]

Singur, in Hooghly district of West Bengal was in the national news for the resistance by the agrarian populace in Singur against the forceful eviction from their property by the state government. The local people had been building up the resistance since long in the area where the TATA group [an Indian industrial group] had […]