Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum, regarding two alleged brutal torture cases taken place in Banke district in May 2007. In one case, 8 young persons, including 6 minors, were arbitrarily arrested on 4 May 2007 and further brutally tortured by the officers […]

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from media houses that Pakistan government has banned the broadcasting of one popular television channel, the Geo TV, since 3 June 2007, after the television station management refused the request of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting not to broadcast its two current […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees that a woman was brutally tortured and suffered and sexually molested by the police on grounds that she was involved in setting fire to a government […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received yet another case of alleged arbitrary arrest and detention under the Special Power Act (SPA), 1974 from Bangladesh. We were informed that Mr. Obaidul Quader and Mr. Abdul Jalil, who are leaders of the Bangladesh Awami League party as well as the former ministers, were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding alleged extra judicial killings of at least 5 villagers in Pasuruan on 30 May 2007. Such incident happened for the reason that the villagers were trying to halt the cultivation process conducted by Rajawali Nusantara Corporation (RNC) in a dispute land. Several Navy […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is aware that over six weeks after two young men were killed and three seriously injured by soldiers in southern Thailand no action has been taken against the alleged killers, although the army has acknowledged responsibility. According to information that the AHRC obtained shortly after the incident […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh (UP) regarding the alarming increase in the number of attacks against the members of the dalit community in the state. It is reported that after the defeat of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 92 families were forcibly evicted from their 120 hectares of land in Sangkat (commune) O’ Tress, Khan (district) Stung Hav, Sihanoukville by more than 100 armed police, military police and 20 gangsters on 23 May 2007. They were allegedly led by Khann Stung […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about threats to which human rights defender Mr. Jitman Basnet of Solukhumbu District, Nepal, was subjected on May 21, 2007, giving rise to serious concerns for his physical and psychological integrity. Mr. Basnet was arrested on February 4, 2004 by plain-clothed army personnel from […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information regarding a death of a 25-year-old man Quamrul Islam Majnu after allegedly being brutally assaulted by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in plainclothes on 19 May 2007. The victim was allegedly beaten with bamboo sticks by the RAB officers when he was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in Jakarta regarding the death of Teguh Uripno, a man who was brutally tortured by officers attached to Serpong sector police in Tangerang district on 20 April 2007. Uripno was detained at the police headquarters following his arrests for defending […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another five activists have been killed while another one was forcibly disappeared in separate incidents in February, March and May of this year. These belated reports received from various sources clearly exposes the reality of the alarming state of insecurity the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information regarding the killing of three farmers and gruesome murder of a mother and her son in separate incidents on May 5 and April 2 respectively. The three farmers, namely Benjamin Gelongga, his son-in-law Richard Sarillo and nephew Bobby Quilo, were found dead in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the bonded labour of three persons from the Musahar community in Asbaranpur village of Varanasi district. Musahar is a scheduled caste and considered untouchable by the caste Hindus. It is alleged […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 65-year-old man by several members of the Kananke Police in the Matara District allegedly at the inducement of a third party. Later he was produced before the Magistrate’s Court under fabricated charges and remanded. When he complained to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that S. Kinsley de Silva (48) was brutally tortured by four army officers following his arrest at his residence on 10 May 2007. The military men, all attached to Army Unit at Old Sri Sumangala Boys School, arrested De Silva in Thalpitiya, Wadduwa without […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) regarding the forcible abduction and disappearance of two men, Satkunarajah Sasindran and Robin Rosten, by armed men in white vans in separate incidents on 8 May 2007 in Colombo. The manner by which these victims were abducted is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the inhuman treatment by the police towards a 29-year-old man, Mr. B Sumith Priyantha Fernando, on 26 March 2007. Mr. Fernando was illegally arrested, detained and was subsequently brutally tortured by a police officer, Officer- in Charge (OIC) of the Special Investigation Unit […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand under the Emergency Decree on January 6 and 9, respectively. They were reportedly assaulted by the authorities in order to make them confess before Chang Hai temple military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that another political activist, Orly Marcellana, narrowly avoided an attempt on his life on 10 May 2007. Marcellana is the husband of the late Eden Marcellana, a human rights activist murdered four years ago in Naujan, Mindoro Oriental. In another development, the complaint […]