Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to inform you about an alleged false case against a 65-year-old woman in Wanathayilluwa, by officers from the Excise Department in Puttalam who are allegedly connected to an illicit liquor merchandiser. The victim was illegally taken into custody by two officers from the Department, after she […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is reported that without being given any reason by principal, the student was inhumanely assaulted following which he then had to be hospitalized […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the uninterrupted campaign of the District Magistrate against the human rights organisations within his jurisdiction in Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir. The AHRC has been informed that the Magistrate is now forcing the public media to refuse dissemination of any information […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source about the alleged torture of a man by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Kalutara division. It is alleged that Mr. Maha Hewage Sumith Perera was inhumanely tortured for several hours for two days. What is particularly horrendous about […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 13 year-old boy has been excessively assaulted by a school teacher in Gedakawela, Ratnapura on 2 March 2007. Despite the doctor’s advice to hospitalize the boy after checking his condition, several teachers allegedly forced the child to return to school. In addition, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the illegal three-day police detention of two minors, including a 14 year- old girl. It is reported that the Juvenile Justice Board, Salt Lake, Kolkata has asked Police Superintendent […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has since last year documented and closely followed the case of a teenager who appears to have been blatantly killed by the police in Kalasin province of northeastern Thailand, after they had already arrested and charged him. Although the alleged torture and extrajudicial killing of Kietisak Thitboonkrong […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source of four cases relating to intimidation and assaults allegedly committed by the Maoists. Details of each case are described below. At the present stage, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) (CPN (M)) formally ended the armed conflict in the country […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged wrongful arrest and brutal torture of an innocent sales clerk named Md. Munsur Ali who was detained by police at RN Road in Jessore on 30 January 2007.  The victim was allegedly arrested under the orders of Sub Inspector Habibur Rahman […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 39 year-old bus driver was allegedly tortured by a traffic police officer near the Waikkala Railway Gate on 11 March 2007.  The victim was apparently asked to pull his bus over to the side of the road and was then brutally attacked in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that no criminal charges have not been filed against the police officers of the Moratuwa police station responsible for illegal arrest and inhuman torture of a man in September 2004. A few days after his arrest, the victim was released by the court […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alerts (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, of Manipur state, India regarding the abduction and murder of two persons in Thoubal district in Manipur. The local people allege that the unidentified armed persons responsible for […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, brutal assault and fabrication of charges against three men from Panadura by the police on 24 March 2007. The victims were arrested by six police officers who failed to produce warrants or gave any explanation for the arrest. The […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner Advocacy Forum in Nepal that seven persons, including five minors, were arbitrarily arrested without warrant, and tortured by police personnel in Banke district during detention. They were all arrested with the accusation of a small shop theft at the time of […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Nervazhi, a local human rights organisation based in Thrissur, Kerala that the government pleader (Lawyer) attached to the local civil court with a group of criminals have trespassed onto private property and demolished houses to in order to settle private […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and brutal assault of a man by the Ratnapura police on 15 March 2007. The victim, Mr. Kuruthanthrige Lakshman Gunasekera, a 43 year-old trader, was stopped in the evening by two police officers in civilian clothes and brutally […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Association of Initiative Developing and People Advocacy (PIAR) of the alleged brutal torture of a teenage youth, Mr. Odi Modokh, and his five friends at the Manggarai Resort Police Station in the South-Eastern district of Nusa Tengurra, Indonesia on 29 and 30 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, based in West Bengal that a family is facing continuous threat from extortionists and that the local police is refusing to take any action in the case. Mr. Monoranjan Ghosh, the head of the family was assaulted several times […]