Urgent Appeal Case

[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 Philippine authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Philippine authorities are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to inform you new attacks on media workers and organizations in Pakistan. We were informed that the Pakistan government has stopped publishing advertisements of government departments and public firms on the Daily Dawn, one largest English newspaper in Pakistan, since December 2006 allegedly due to its […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Md. Aminul Islam Shahin was tortured by the police personnel from the Gournadi police station in the Barisal district on 9 November 2007. The police neither identified themselves nor gave any reason for breaking and entering Shahin’s home and subsequently torturing him […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand, (see UAC-005-2008). It has since received news of other similar cases involving torture. The latest victims are charged with organizing the Nong Fern Karaoke restaurant bombing in Pattani province. CASE […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that around three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested en masse by the Bangladesh law-enforcement in Dhaka on the eve of and during the 72-hour long blockade programme called by an alliance of opposition parties. The AHRC has been informed that many of the arrested […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The army initially claimed that they killed a terrorist in self-defence.  Now they have changed their version of the story claiming that the pastor […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details from the Yoma-3 News Service (Thailand) and other sources of the alleged death in police custody of another young man in Burma due to assault. According to his wife, Maung Chan Kun was taken by the police from his family’s house in the Irrawaddy […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was allegedly tortured to death in the custody of the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1 December 2007. After the police and narcotics officials arrested him from his house, he was found dead in a private hospital. His family members witnessed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by nine officers of the Muncipal Administrative Police Unit (SATPOL PP) on Pakubuwono Street in Southern Jakarta on the 8 January 2007. The boy was arrested for a petty violation of the municipal regulations. […]

[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 many 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 with […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged police assault of a 57-year-old woman in East Denpasar, Indonesia after she was arrested on 3 January 2007 by the police, on suspicion of counterfeiting money, the charge of which she denies. The victim was severely assaulted by police officers and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province, Pakistan. She miscarried due to police’s beatings and later underwent a forced abortion when she became pregnant after having been raped […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2006. Despite several suspicious factors of the circumstances of the victim’s death, the police are attempting to hush up the case by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the failure to conduct a proper postmortem examination by the police before they buried a female corpse recovered from a forest in Battambang province. There were indications that the woman could have been raped before she was killed. However, the police chose […]

Dear friends, The military junta that has now controlled government in Thailand for four months has in recent weeks made clear that martial law was never partially lifted at the end of November, as it had earlier ordered, and that it instead now intends to use more of the powers under that law to stifle […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to update you on a land dispute that was reported on earlier this month involving the forced eviction of two communities from the Sambo district in Kratie province, Cambodia. On 13 January 2007, a house belonging to 27 year-old farmer and father of two Oun Theurn […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local NGO,  the Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND), that on 18 September 2006, two young men of indigenous ethnicity, Mr. Nicolas Sanchez (27) and Mr. Heherson Medina (29) from the Tarlac Province, were allegedly abducted by 30 military soldiers in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent developments in the investigation and prosecutory trial of the murder of the late human rights activist, Mr. Munir Said Thalib. Munir died of arsenic poisoning aboard a Garuda Indonesia airways flight destined for Amsterdam on 7 September 2004.  UPDATED INFORMATION: […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed documentation on the appeal against conviction for treason of eight men in Burma. The accused, including Hkun Htun Oo, the chairperson of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, a registered political party, have lodged special appeals in the Supreme Court against life imprisonment on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged brutal attack on a couple by persons who are reportedly cadres of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal on 12 October 2006. We were informed that despite the […]