Urgent Appeal Case

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; illegal arrests and detention; forced abduction and disappearance; inadequate police investigation; a need for impartial investigation; witness protection; attacks against indigenous people’s group; violence against women ————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you of further attacks against activists in separate incidents in the Philippines. Since […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have recently developed a new automatic letter-sending system. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Bangladesh authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of these authorities are attached below with this […]

PAKISTAN: Use of power; no respect for lower caste women; abduction of women; punishment for educating the low caste girl; no rule of law; impunity to perpetrators ——————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged kidnapping of a girl named Ghazala Shaheen and her mother who were […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the abduction of three fishermen from Khas Mahal Damush by the officers from Bangladesh Rifles on 6 September 2006. Khas Mahal Damush is in Murshidabad District, West Bengal, India. The whereabouts of these persons […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned with dismay that on September 4 a large number of police officers equipped with assault rifles and electric batons blocked and banned a procession organised by the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR).  CCHR was attempting to make a public announcement of the installation of […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC has recently developed a new automatic letter-sending system. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Burmese authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of these authorities are attached below with this […]

CAMBODIA: illegal deprivation of the land; illegal?destruction of property; intimidation; impunity of the military; collapse of rule of law; no orders in the military —————————————————— Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that there has been a series of brutal actions committed by members of the Royal Cambodian Air Force after they […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of yet another person from Manipur by the armed forces stationed in that state. Mr. Longjam Surjit, a resident of Samurou, was killed by the officers from the 22 Maratha Light Infantry, based at Mayang, Imphal at night on 31 August […]

Dear friends, The Asian Legal Resource Centre has together with the Working Group on Justice for Peace (Thailand) have submitted details to the United Nations of five more persons who have disappeared from Narathiwat in southern Thailand. All five, including one child, allegedly disappeared together in October 2005 after collecting a new car. Like other […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding two cases which depicts how the local police fails to protect and safeguard law and order in the society, and also engage in corrupt practices with impunity in India. The first case is that […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another alleged forced disappearance of a 17 year-old boy named Thivarthan Murukesu Jebichandran by Sri Lanka’s military on 9 August 2006, at Kantharodai Veethi, Jaffna, Northern Province, Sri Lanka.  The local police have refused to investigate the kidnapping of Thivarthan Murukesu Jebichandran when […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that three more activists have been killed in separate incidents in the Philippines on August 20, 22 and 24. According to information received from various sources on August 20, peasant leader Hermelino Marqueza was killed in his house in Tandag, Surigao del […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the case of a young man in Burma who has been jailed without evidence or fair trial, allegedly for selling illegal lottery tickets. Nyi Nyi Htut, a law student, was arrested in the delta town of Bogalay on 16 June 2006 when […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), through its sister organisation, has submitted details to the United Nations of 12 persons who have allegedly been abducted by the security forces in southern Thailand. They are among some 23 cases acknowledged by the government of Thailand in which the families have been paid compensation, but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged brutal torture of a 50 year-old farmer by allegedly intoxicated Kekirawa police officers on 24 August 2006, demonstrating yet another example of the complete and total breakdown of Sri Lanka’s policing system. At around 11:00am on August 24, Suddage Sirisena […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a person was illegally taken into custody from his house by the officers from Jalangi police station and brutally tortured. It is alleged that the officers raided the house at about 3am on […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Sri Lankan aurhorities. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Sri Lankan authorities are attached below with this appeal. Thank you.] SRI LANKA: Disappearance; government’s inaction to locate […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Cambodian aurhorities.  Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below with this appeal. Thank you.] CAMBODIA: Violation of the freedom of expression and […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “send letter” button. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indonesian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indonesian authorities […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the harassment of a bus driver by members of the police, which illustrates the breakdown of the rule of law, the deeply entrenched cultures of police corruption and impunity and the helplessness of the Sri Lankan people in their daily lives. On October […]