Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the police in Pakistan arrested a journalist from his hospital bed, where he was receiving treatment for bullet shot wounds. The police arrested the journalist without the permission of the hospital and took him to the Ghotki Sarhad police station where they […]

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial executions; violence against activists and their families; absence of protection for activists facing threats; inadequate police investigation; complete collapse of rule of law ————————————- PETITION – PETITION – PETITION – PETITION STOP EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES http://www.pinoyhr.net/ ———————————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged surveillance and intimidation of a pastor, Rev. Fr. Eleuterio “Terry” J. Revollido, Chairperson of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan – BAYAN (New Patriotic  Alliance) in Pangasinan province, the Philippines. His organisation has been working for marginalised sectors of society in the area and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received news of yet another case involving a teacher in Sri Lanka assaulting one of his pupils. In the latest incident, on 17 July 2006 the 13-year-old victim and his classmates had been chatting outside their classroom as the subject-teacher due at the time was late. […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of yet another incident of intimidation and inhuman treatment by the Indian Army officers from Manipur, a state in the north-east of India. On 15 July 2006, a vehicle in which the representatives of the student movement in Manipur were traveling, while on their […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Kamrul Hasan Kamal, who was an insurance company worker, was arbitrarily arrested, detained and implicated in a murder case by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) police of Jessore on 12 July 2006. However, after eight days of interrogation in the Joint Interrogation Cell […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the Municipality of Phnom Penh continues to implement its so-called city development and beautification plan with its intention to yet again forcibly evict 146 families living in Group 78, Village 14, Tonle Bassac commune, Chamcar Mon district, near the centre of Phnom Penh and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a man allegedly by Sergeant Samaranayake of the Wanduramba police. The victim was taken into custody on 11 July 2006, but was not given any explanation for this. On the way to the police station, and once inside, the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information detailing the torture of a man by police officers attached to the Alawathugoda Police Station. The victim was beaten and humiliated by the police who accused him of being in possession of illicit liquor. They also threatened to disappear him if he did not […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM about yet another brutal killing by the Border Security Forces (BSF) at the Indo-Bangladesh border. According to the information received Mr. Saifuddin, a farmer was forcefully taken into custody by the BSF officers on 1 June 2006, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku was severely assaulted by his teacher, M. Sugatharathana Thero of the Wickremasheela, Pirivena (Bikku seminary) in Bandaragama for arguing with […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the killings of two persons, one of whom was a minor, by officers of the Border Security Forces (BSF) operating along the Indo-Bangladesh border. After confronting the two victims and beating them with their rifle, the BSF officers then shot them at point blank […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the disappearance of two student activists and a peasant on June 26, 2006. The victims Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño were staying at a house in Purok 6, Barangay (village) San Miguel, Hagonoy when armed men believed to be military forcibly took […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local partner regarding a man who was allegedly taken into custody by police officers and brutally tortured in Kerala, India. It is alleged that Jayakumar, a tailor by profession, was taken into custody when officers from Mannuthy police station conducted an illegal […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the fabricated charges of a man, owing to the line of work he is engaged in. Though the police have charged the victim with possessing ganja (marijuana), he maintains that he was charged because of the illicit mining conducted […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the guards of the state rubber plantation of Krek, in Pohnea Krek distict, Kompong Cham province and the police of the same province arrested eight villagers in June and about 20 more in July for allegedly stealing scrap rubber left uncollected on the ground […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a 19-year-old boy named Dhanuka Tisara by the Kalutara South police after his illegal arrest on 2 July 2006. The police accused the victim of committing murder without any evidence to support this, while brutally torturing him. The victim […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a killing of a 14-year-old boy named Salman and the serious injuries of a 15-year-old boy named Asqhar by the Muslim Town police and the Sepoy [ordinary policemen ] of elite force stationing near the police picket at Wahdat road, Lahore City, Punjab, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Nepalese partner organisation Advocacy Forum of the rape of a 17-year old girl by a member of the Nepalese Army. It is feared that the alleged perpetrator, Mr. Ram Chandra Chaulagain, who is reportedly currently being held in custody by the Nepalese Army, […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of Mr. Sadiq Ali and how he was threatened by a superior officer when he approached the officer to lodge a complaint regarding the incident. Not only was Sadiq beaten by law enforcement officers, but the police admit that they […]