Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged killing of at least 11 persons in an incident of police firing against farmers protesting against a proposed acquisition of land for a chemical plant in Nandigram, East Midnapore district, West Bengal. According […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Neervazhi based in Thrissur, Kerala state that an under trial prisoner was tortured to death while in remand custody. The AHRC is informed that the victim Mr. Shaji complained to the magistrate that he was subjected to torture in custody. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No. 6 of the Char Fashion Municipality in Bhola district, allegedly caused by a brutal assault by naval officers on 20 February 2007. Mr. Dulal was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a villager in Burma who has been arrested and charged for satirising state news media articles. U Thein Zan was arrested on 5 March 2007 after he stuck doctored state propaganda on his fence. His case has been opened in court and the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling your attention to the following list of the people who have been allegedly killed, arrested and abducted since January 2006 in Sri Lanka. We have received the information from reliable source of Sri Lanka, however the identity of this source cannot be revealed for security […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the unlawful arrest and illegal detention of Mihindukulasuriya Varnapelige Maheshan Manojith Silva, a 20 year-old fisherman who was taken from his home by officers of the Kalutara police on 1 March 2007. No warrant was produced nor was he given any reason for […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights organisation KONTRAS about the alleged violent disturbance at a conference organized by the National Liberation Unity Party (PAPERNAS), by a group called the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front/Front Anti Koumnis (FAKI) at Batu in East Java on 4 March 2007.  The incident […]

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist named Mr. Lal Malhi who produced a documentary on disappearances was threatened and nearly abducted by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of the Pakistani Army from his office in Umerkot, Sindh on 6 March 2007.  The unsuccessful abduction was halted when the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the brutal torture of a 21 year-old man named Mr. Ramesh Pramanik near the No-2 Border Outpost at Dayarampur village in Murshidabad, West Bengal on 11 December 2006.  Mr. Ramesh was allegedly beaten […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the alleged extra-judicial killing of a villager named Akhil Mondal by the Border Security Force personnel on 23 November 2006. Despite the existence of two eye witnesses in the case, no official investigation […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, India, MASUM that a family was brutally assaulted in the presence of police in Parganas District, West Bengal on 20 November 2006. The alleged reason behind the assault is due to a land dispute between the victims […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, has been refused access to prisoners at the Kanchanpur detention centre since 7 February 2007.  The organisation has been allegedly accused of meddling with police matters for […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged arbitrary arrest and severe torture of a 16-year-old boy by police officers in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka. The victim, Kapu Kankanamalage Mahesh Maduranga, was severely beaten by police officers in order to force him to confess to the theft of a cassette […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal torture and sexual abuse of Mr. Hartoyo, an NGO worker, and his partner Bobby while in detention, by the Banda Raya police between 22-23 January 2007 in Banda Aceh. The alleged underlying motive behind the detention, torture and sexual abuse […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Palash, Principal Programme Coordinator of the PROSHIKA, and Mr. Md. Aminul Islam, Director of the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), a forum of around 1150 NGOs […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source of the alleged assault and arbitrary arrest of a public bus driver in Dhaka on 23 January 2007. We have been informed that a Traffic Police Sergeant stopped the victim’s bus when he was stopping to allow a woman to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding an alleged brutal torture of a young man by the Bally police in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 14 February 2007. The victim was accused of being involved in the disappearance of his wife […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged illegal arrest and torture of a farmer in Quezon. On 4 April 2006, Mr. Fernando Tawagon was allegedly arrested without warrant by the Army’s 76th Infantry Battalion in Barangay (village) Biga, Gumaca, Quezon. He was alleged to be a member […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) forwards below a list of persons recently abducted in Sri Lanka, based on a report issued by the Civil Monitoring Mission on February 7, 2007. The names of persons abducted are follows. The full report of the Civil Monitoring Commission is available at http://srilankahr.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=161&cid=7.   LIST OF PERSONS ABDUCTED: 1. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that an army general named Heng Kham Van, who is also the chief of the Committee of Immovable Property Management for the Royal Cambodian Armed Force (RCAF) Division 1, allegedly issued an illegal notice (Bearing #02) to evict 29 families without a warrant on 24 […]