Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to save the life of Mr. Mirza Tahir Hussain (aged 38), who is facing imminent execution scheduled for early November after Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims. He, who was 18 years old at that time, had been charged with murder […]

[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) deeply regrets to inform you that another priest of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) or the Philippine Independent Church, Fr. Dionisio Ging-Ging (53), was brutally murdered in Barangay Bajao, Tago, Surigao del Sur on 8 October 2006. According to our sources, three suspects, hooded with bonnets or […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the severe torture of two men by the Saddar police in Faisalabad district, Punjab province, Pakistan on 10 September 2006. The victims have been reportedly charged with a false blasphemy case after the police failed to present concrete evidence of an alleged theft […]

[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) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest, detention and subsequent brutal torture of Mr. Suddage Sirisena, a fifty-year-old rural farmer on 24 August 2006 the Kekirawa police in Anuradhapura district, Anuradhapura division, Sri Lanka; and the inexcusable coercion tactics employed by the accused officers in preventing the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the arrests and continued detention of five pro-democracy activists last week in Burma.  Former student activists Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe were arrested by the military on September 27, while Min Zeya and Pyone Cho were detained three […]

[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) is deeply concerned by a killing of a prominent human rights defender Bishop Alberto Ramento of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), or Philippine Independent Church, by unidentified men at his convent in Tarlac City, 105 kilometres north of Manila, on 3 October 2006. The true circumstances are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another case of an alleged illegal forced eviction in Cambodia, in which another tycoon senator is involved. Twelve families, who have lived on their land since 1985, and are entitled to land ownership according to Land Law 2001 of Cambodia, were forcibly […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Kerala state, India that a person died from custodial torture since he refused to pay bribes to the police officers. Mr. Saju, a private bus conductor was arrested by the police officers from Kunnathunadu police station. On 8 September 2006 Saju was detained […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, our partner organization in West Bengal, that the management of a private jute mill in West Bengal is allegedly employing corrupt police officers to fabricate cases against their employees. It is alleged that the management is using the local police to fabricate […]

[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 […]

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

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and brutal torture of Mr. P. Gnanasiri and the vicious assault of members of his family, by officers of the Weligama police in Matara district II, Matara division, Sri Lanka on 13 September 2006. Mr. Gnanasiri, a fisherman in the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 16-year-old schoolboy Marage Sameera Sampath Kumara, by three of his teachers, including the school vice principle, at the D.S. Senanayaka Mada Vidyalaya, Kandalama, Dambulla, on 6 June 2006. Furthermore, the boy was not allowed to continue his education at […]

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) has received information regarding the malicious assault and public humiliation of Ms. Sugihart, a 31 year-old impoverished mother, by officers of the Municipal Administrative Police Unit (SATPOL PP) at the Menteng District Office in Jakarta, Indonesia on 5 September 2006. Ms. Sugiharti was arrested for a petty […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the severe torture of Mr. Illukumbura Mudiyanselage Mudiyanse, a 49-year-old trader, by the Thalathuoya police on 9 June 2006. Due to torture, the victim received considerable injuries over most parts of his body and suffered complete loss of hearing in his left […]