Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police of Metro Police Range (MPR) of Hanumandhoka, Kathmandu. According to the information received, both of them were subjected to torture by the investigating […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one renowned trade union activist and human rights defender namely Mr. Phani Gopal Bhattacharya, has allegedly been implicated along with 25 persons in a false case by the Bally police station, Howrah district, West Bengal state, India on 10 March 2007. Mr. Bhattacharya […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shyampukur Police, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is alleged that the OC of Shyampukur Police was pressuring the victim to […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was illegally arrested by officers of Akmeemana police on 16 March 2007, he was accused of involvement in a theft case. During detention, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of yet another murderous assault in Burma which officials are trying to cover up. Ko Naing Oo was taken into custody by suburban council officers in Rangoon on 18 March 2007, because of a petty family dispute. He was found dead in their office […]

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher at the school on 15 March 2007. The victim was severely beaten, sustained injuries and was hospitalised for three days after the incident. It has been reported that the school principle and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information about a trial in Thailand that has been going on for 14 years. The trial of four men for allegedly planning to kill the former Supreme Court president has gone on since 1993 even though the police have not presented material evidence against […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source (name withheld for security reasons), regarding the cases of abductions of 15 innocent civilians in Trincomalee and Colombo since September 2006 to February 2007. All of the victims are still missing and there have not been taken any effective investigation […]

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of all the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to the present. The victim was allegedly arrested by the police members of District Police Office (DPO), Kalikot three times on the charge of being suspect […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, India regarding the rape of a 13 years old girl. It is alleged that police has failed to register a case against the criminals despite several complaints. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the death and injury of 55 migrant workers by a large scale fire that happened in the foreigner detention centre in Yeosu, South Korea on 11 February 2007. It has been reported that the detainees who are migrant workers could not escape the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KONTRAS Sumatera Utara about the severe torture of Mr. Aditya Panji Akbar, an 18 year-old boy while undergoing treatment at the Mental Health Ward of the Bhayangkara (Police) Hospital, by Brigadier Officer Simarmata of the Medan City Police on the 11 January 2007 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from local NGO KARAPATAN regarding the killing of human rights activist, Siche Bustamante-Gandinao on 10 March 2007. The victim was one of the witnesses who testified before the UN Special Rappoteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Professor Philip Alston during his visit to the […]

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further details of the Nandigram massacre on 14 March 2007 (See further: UA-083-2007). The West Bengal state government confirmed 11 persons killed from one village but actual death toll is expected to be much higher up to 50. The AHRC’s local partner MASUM has information from […]

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest and assault of a man by the Ratnapura police. According to the information we have received from our local partner organization in Sri Lanka, he has been arrested twice on fabricated charges including this time and been harassed by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding a missing 13 year-old girl from Basanti Colony in Kolkata, West Bengal.  It is alleged that the Ultadanga police refused to register the complaint of the girl’s disappearance lodged by her seriously ailing mother, Mrs. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that a number of students of the University of Jaffna have been murdered, arbitrarily arrested and disappeared since August 2006. Due to the security situation some classes had been cancelled until 19 February 2007. It has been allegedly reported that military […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the kidnapping and gang-rape of a 15 year-old-girl by more than a dozen attackers from Town Layyah in Punjab province beginning on 30 January 2007. The heinous crime, which was committed over a four-day period, has still not been registered by the police […]