Urgent Appeal Case

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that Mr. Salim Baloch, the acting president of Jamhoori Watan Party was allegedly abducted once again by secret service personnel on 31 December 2006 just 15 days after his release from an army torture cell. His present whereabouts are unknown. The AHRC has […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

[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 most 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 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that legal action has been taken against 12 lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court, including three top lawyers who are former or current heads of the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Bangladesh Bar Council, relating to the violent incident at the Supreme Court […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by gross negligence of the part of the High Court of Sindh on persons who are believed to be illegally detained in the military torture cells in Rawal Pindi. Mr. Salim Baloch, the vice president of the Jamhoori Watan Party who was released on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 17-year-old student of the Rahula National School was brutally assaulted by a school health and physical training teacher.  The assault was continued even in the presence of the principal and the vice principal of the school. It is reported that serious wounds […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the death of a man due to custodial negligence in the state of West Bengal on 22 November 2006. It has been reported that the victim had spent more than one month in remand before […]

CAMBODIA: Illegal expropriation of land; violation of Cambodia Land Law; violation of the right to housing and food; impunity —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal expropriation of a large plot of land by the Army Brigade 31 of the Cambodian army in Cham Srey village, Kompong […]

[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) regrets to inform you of the death of Charnchai Promthongchai (23) who had been under military custody for four days after being arrested by the military at a checkpoint at Baan Jabo on December 7. The victim’s friend, Som Hom-orn (27), who was also detained by the […]

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed about the killing of a student league activist in Rajishahi district by a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) team at a public bazaar in front of more than 100 witnesses […]

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two men who surrendered to the Magistrate’s Court of Galle were taken into custody by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) of Galle from the court premises […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you of two more alleged disappearance cases from Sindh province in Pakistan which separately took place in July and August 2006. To date the whereabouts of the victims remain unknown. The victims have gone missing after allegedly being taken by police and army personnel. In […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you about the case of two women from Surkhet district in Nepal who were raped by the two Nepal Armed Force security officers, and the fact that no proper investigation into the case has been conducted. One of the arrested alleged perpetrators have […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the forced abduction of a man from Ranala, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 23 August 2006. The family members of the victim at the location of the abduction were also beaten with rifle butts, hands and feet. Several weeks […]

[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 many of the Pakistan authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. […]

[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 many of the Pakistan authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those […]

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary arrest; torture; fabricated charge; detention; deprivation of medical treatment; collapse of rule of law —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three persons including twin brothers were arbitrarily arrested by a team from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 at their mobile phone shop at Abdullahpur Karergaon Bazar […]

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; violence against activists; a need for effective police investigation, protection to families of the dead; collapse of rule of law ————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that two more activists were shot dead while three others were wounded in separate incidents. On December 6, […]