Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you of a report from MASUM, a local human rights organization based in West Bengal, of the deaths of three minors. The minors were working in an illegal factory manufacturing fireworks. The local police was aware about the functioning of the illegal factory but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the death of a young man and of severe injuries caused to several others when they were brutally tortured by the army’s Joint Forces. Victim Md. Jamal Uddin died from a brutal beating a few hours after arrest on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Urban Resource Centre-Pakistan, an organization working on housing rights, that one person was shot dead and more than 10 were injured by thugs, with the help of the police, during an illegal demolition on 3 October 2007. However the case has not been […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the death of yet another person at the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal. In the past year, the AHRC has reported 10 cases of extrajudicial killing by the Border Security Force [BSF] […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) that four females were beaten by armed military police and civilian police in Dey Krahorm area on 29 August 2007. The group was allegedly hired by a company and attempted to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that anti-coup activist Sombat Boon-ngam-anong is detained with pending charges of criminal defamation after he expressed opinions against the coup leaders. The AHRC calls for your immediate action to urge the case to be withdrawn. CASE DETAILS: Sombat is the leader of the Citizens […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged deprivation of the right to education of a 15-year-old schoolgirl by the Principals of two schools, in disregard of instructions of the Director of Education to admit her. As a result, the victim, who is being brought up by her grandparents […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault and injury caused to a schoolboy by a teacher of the Sumana Maha Pirivena in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka on 26 June 2007. When he lodged a police complaint against the alleged assault, in revenge the School Principal did not allow […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Chhattisgarh state, India regarding the killing of eleven children and a young man in Nendra village of Dantewada district. The incident happened on March 13, 2007. The children and the man killed in the incident were from the tribal community of the state. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the alleged spying on and harassment of student activists and campus journalists in two universities in Metro Manila by soldiers. The soldiers covertly took photographs and video recordings of them when they enter the campus to hold meetings on the pretext of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding the illegal detention, alleged custodial torture, severe ill-treatment and subsequent disappearance of a woman and her husband. It is alleged that the lady was taken into custody, detained for 10 days, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the severe assault of a 40-year-old manual labourer K.W. Upali, allegedly by the Officer-in-Charge of Dodangoda Police and his men. According to the victim, when he failed to satisfy the OIC in answering their questions as to where he purchased the liquor he […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following closely events in Burma since the government multiplied the cost of fuels there without warning over a week ago, prompting public protests. Latest reports from many sources indicate that at least 65 persons have now been taken into custody in connection with the demonstrations. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a 20-year-old man by the Galaha police. He was severely tortured despite his defence lawyer’s request to the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) not to torture his client in the process of their investigation. In addition, the Magistrate […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a rape victim was allegedly abducted by the perpetrator the rape which took place two years ago. Following her abduction on 15 August 2007, her parents reported the incident to the police in Galagedara and Anuradapura but, to-date, no measures what-so-ever […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding the illegal destruction of nearly 100 houses at the Rajabazar Canal – Canal East Road area by the local police stationed at the Narkeldanga Police Station in Kolkata. It is alleged […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Right Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the torching of a house of a journalist, Phon Phat (41), in Ba Kan district, Posat on 10 August 2007. Two men drove up to his house at dawn; poured gasoline over the walls and surrounding and set fire to it. The […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding two cases where the local police in the state are involved in corrupt and questionable practices. The two cases below not only shows how the local police as an institution functions […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the enforced disappearance of three farmers who are also members of the Anakpawis’ party list in Guipos, Zamboanga del Sur. The three were abducted along a highway on 3 August 2007 by several men riding on motorcycles. The whereabouts of the victims remain […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged torture of Mr. Kalam Miya, a 27-year-old manual worker and permanent resident of Pakali VDC-3, Sunsari district, Nepal on July 30 and 31, 2007 by the police. Following his arrest, Mr. Kalam Miya was reportedly threatened with death and tortured for […]