Urgent Appeal Case

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 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, Philippines,?concerning the illegal arrest and detention by the Philippine Army of eight of Karapatan’s volunteers who were participating in a human rights fact-finding mission. The human rights defenders were […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding yet another incident of brutality and torture committed by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at Murshidabad district near the Indo-Bangladesh border. The AHRC has been issuing urgent appeals on reported cases of a similar […]

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the use of excessive force by policemen and security guards in dispersing 21 union members of a protest at the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) office in Intramuros, Manila at 10am on August 16, 2006. Six of the union workers […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern to inform you that the family of a religious worker, Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa, who was killed on August 3, 2006, is presently facing serious security risks. Sta. Rosa’s wife Sonia and their children fear for their family’s safety since they started to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a member of a fishermen’s group was killed while two other activists are facing serious threats. Orlando Rivera (40) was shot dead in front of his family by armed, hooded men inside his house in Obando, Bulacan at 1am on August 16, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM concerning the death of a young woman, who died a few hours after giving birth due to the medical negligence of staff at the Sadikhandear Block Primary Center (Health) [B.P.C.H.] in Jalangi Block, Murshidabad district, West Bengal, […]

[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 been informed that two persons were killed in the name of “crossfire” by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Jessore district, Khulna division on 16 July 2006, after being arbitrarily arrested in Dhaka on July 14. Their families allege that the two men were killed after […]

[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 been informed of a suicide involving a man named Mr. Asmat Ali after he was allegedly arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Chhutipur camp police in Jessore district, Bangladesh on 3 August 2006. It is alleged that he committed suicide after he endured social humiliation and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information that a 16-year-old school girl has been duped into leaving home by one of her school teachers in Thiruwanaganga-watte, Kotapola, Sri Lanka on 6 May 2006.  Despite repeated appeals by S.A. Letchimi, the girl’s mother to the teacher concerned and having made a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an assault of a 15-year-old boy by a Sub Inspector (SI) at the Panadura (South) police station in Panadura, Sri Lanka on 2 August 2006. The reason for the boy’s assault was allegedly due to an accident involving two bicycles of both parties.  […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following information from the Commission of Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) in Indonesia regarding illegal detention and shooting incident of two men by the Bangsalsari Sector Police in East Java in August 2002. The police illegally detained the victims for about two months […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case involving the fabrication of charges by the Mahiyangana police. The victim, belonging to the Adhivasi (indigenous) community was illegally arrested and falsely charged because he insisted on speaking the Adhivasi dialect when the police questioned him. In Sri Lanka, many minority populations do […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of a development worker, Uztadz Kusain Abedin, in Cotabato City at 6:45pm on August 3, 2006. Abedin was arrested at a bus terminal along Don Rufino Alonzo Street, Cotabato City, for unknown reason and is presently […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM concerning the eviction of a family from their home, the lack of police action and medical assistance as well as the impunity of the persons who attacked them and force them from their home. According to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Kishore Kumar Das, who was a workshop mechanic, was arbitrarily arrested at his house on 20 July 2006 and detained in an undisclosed place in Jessore for 93 hours without any notice. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) then allegedly implicated him in […]

[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 an alleged fabrication of charges and threats against a young woman named Ms. Wasana Vinodya Silva by the Mulleriyawa police, in collaboration with her husband Mr. Nandana Kumara. The victim claims that she left the house on July 6 after having an argument […]