Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding abductions of three men who have been missing after allegedly being arrested by state secret agents in Sindh province. Interestingly, in all three cases, the alleged abductors came in a white double cabin jeep bearing same registration number GS-0162, which was followed by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged deaths during a protest in Nandigram, East Midnapore district, West Bengal against the state government’s plan to acquire land for a Special Economic Zone(SEZ). According to the first fact-finding report done by MASUM, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist was allegedly tortured and fabricated charges were laid against him by the Kalpitiya police in Sri Lanka on 24 March 2007. The police beat him and forcibly poured liquor into his mouth and water on his body after the arrest. He […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Chinese investment company named Global Agricultural Development Cambodia Co. Ltd allegedly bulldozed and cleared 9800 hectares of land in August 2006. The destroyed land was used for rice cultivation and included 1138 hectares that belonged to 936 families from O Kriang commune, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights organization KONTRAS regarding two separate cases of violence and intimidation against human rights defenders by paramilitary groups in Surabaya and Bandung in Java province on 12 and 14 December 2006 respectively. The unlawful behaviour of the paramilitary groups and the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Surendra Thapa was severely beaten up by senior police officers of the District Police Office (DPO), Surkhet district in Nepal on 15 October 2007. After he disclosed this incident to the public, he has faced constant threats of dismissal from his job. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal that a family of Bangladeshi origin were brutally assaulted and evicted from their land by a group of local thugs on 10 November 2006. The police took no action to arrest the alleged perpetrators when […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the five former student activists who were arrested between 27 and 30 September 2006 have been released from more than three months of detention in an unknown location. They were arrested by police as suspects of planning bombings in the country and […]

[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) is gravely concerned by another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 in Jessore district on 20 November 2006. We were informed that a 25-year-old Mr. Khademul Islam Masum was arbitrarily arrested by the RAB-6 personnel near his house in Shekhhati […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Abujam Shidam, a college teacher in Mapipur who was arrested on fabricated charges and tortured while in custody by the Manipur State Police. The case reported by the Human Rights Alert, a local human rights organisation based in Imphal, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received the information that a 17-year-old Hindu girl, Deepa has been missing since she was abducted by her Muslim tuition teacher on 31 December 2006. It is alleged that she was forcibly converted to Muslim and married to the said teacher. It is also reported that the […]

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the violent and arbitrarily arrest of a man being investigated by officers from the Excise Department on suspicion of being in possession of illicit liquor on 29 November 2006. The arresting officers had no warrant or evidence and proceeded to violently assault the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kalidas Ghosh, a 17-year-old boy who was killed by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at the Indo-Bangladesh border on 28 December 2007. The AHRC has been informed by Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organisation working in […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged dowry death of a woman in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India on 3 July 2006. Despite the victim’s mother’s repeated complaints as well as a court order to investigate the case, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform that the remaining nine torture victims have already been released from the provincial jail in La Trinidad, Benguet on 20 December 2006. They were released after the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge, Benigno Galacgac, dismissed the criminal charges the police filed against them […]

[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) writes to inform you that a farmer who was repeatedly stabbed after he was forcibly abducted, tortured and held in captivity survived an attempt on his life on 12 December 2007 in Compostela Valley, Mindanao. There are allegations that those responsible could have been soldiers deployed in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, of the alleged rape of a mentally deficient woman by an army officer in Kavreplanchowk district, Nepal on 23 December 2006. We were also informed that for four days since the incident, army […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informs you regarding the further killing of eight persons, six of whom activists, one driver and one journalist, in separate incidents that took place between December 12 to 31, 2006. These cases were received from reliable sources and information from various media sources. CASE DETAILS: On December […]