Urgent Appeal Case

THAILAND: Abduction; illegal detention; torture; robbery; attempted rape; threat to life; forced confession; attempted extortion; corruption; impunity; non-investigation; denial of redress ——————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the alleged torture and armed robbery of a man and woman by the police in Thailand. Uthai Boonnom and Amporn […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man named Saman Rohana Manawadu by the Ingiriya police. Mr. Manawadu was arrested and his van was confiscated due to the police’s claim that his van was a stolen vehicle and used in a murder. The […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a situation regarding B. Nimal, who was illegally detained by the Wanduramba police because his son had disappeared with a young lady. It is suspected that the parents of the lady influenced the police into detaining Mr. Nimal for the purpose of […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Legal Aid Institute of Jakarta (LBH Jakarta) that three security guards from Indonesia’s National Intelligence Body (BIN) assaulted a student and a motorcycle taxi driver. Untung Surapati, a 21-year-old student at the Indonesian Christian University (UKI) and Lukman, a motorcycle taxi driver were assaulted […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Padang Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Padang) in West Sumatera, Indonesia that Mr Kamzul Abrar, coordinator of the Forum Peduli Nurani Rakyat Sulit Air (Forum of Sulit Air Care Society) was kidnapped by unknown persons at the Solok market, Sulit Air district, Solok, […]

PHILIPPINES: Threats against human rights and political activists; inaction by authorities to ensure their security and protection; inadequate police investigation; violence against women; complete collapse of rule of law —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the safety of another four activists who have received threats from unknown […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about another three disappearance cases in Pakistan. They are Mr. Asif Baladi, a publisher of Peace Publishing House and the chairperson of Sindh Nationalist Forum, Mr. Mehar Uddin Marri, a journalist in Badin district, Sindh province and Mr. Mitha Khan Marri, a transporter in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that in the late afternoon of July 3 the police of Kandal province arrested at their respective homes Mrs. Lach Sambo, president, Miss Gneom Khun, general treasurer, and Mr. Sal Koemsan, activist, of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC), […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a blind beggar’s 19-year-old daughter was gang raped by three influential men for several months. Upon knowing her pregnancy, they forcibly poisoned her and killed the three-month-old fetus. Meanwhile, the police refused to protect the victim and pressed charges against her family to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that on 3 July 2006, a rickshaw driver named Inarul Islam Ena was arbitrarily arrested, forced to drive overnight, and sodomized by Officer Abdul Mannan, a Bishnupur police Sub Inspector of the Chuadanga district, Bangladesh. Before the offence, the police threatened to kill Ena […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner, The Advocacy Forum, of a case regarding the brutal torture of Mr. Teksu Rai by the officers from the Maharajgunj Ward police station. It is alleged that Rai had refused to pay off police officers when they demanded a monthly […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, detailing the killing of a 14-year-old boy by the Border Security Forces (BSF) operating along the Indo-Bangladesh border. The boy resided just 30 meters from the border and on hearing some commotion outside his […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that M.S.F. Perera who was allegedly tortured by prison guards at Kuruwita Remand Prison has succumbed to his injuries at the National Hospital in Colombo on 6 July 2006.  He was arrested on mistaken identity on the allegation of making bomb threats by telephone.  Another […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of the alleged death in custody of a young man in Burma due to an assault by special anti-drug squad police. According to his mother, who has now fled to Thailand, Maung Ne Zaw and two friends were stopped, illegally detained and brutally assaulted […]

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; violence against human rights defenders; failure of authorities to provide protection; delays in arresting perpetrators despite charges filed; complete collapse of rule of law —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another three peasant activists have been killed in separate attacks in Negros Occidental, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a case of rape of a minor from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum based in Katmandu – Nepal. The incident happened when the 15-year-old schoolgirl, Bimala [the name changed to safeguard her identity] was in the forest near the District Police Office (DPO) Bhiman in Sindhuri […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a sixty-five year-old woman named Mrs. Nayan Banu was beaten to death by three police men from the Savar Police Station at the victim’s house in Dhaka District on 2 July 2006. She was allegedly killed because she asked for the identity of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an arbitrary arrest and degrading treatment of a woman by the Galle police on 31 May 2006. According to the information we have received, after the victim refused unfavourable request of a man in civilian clothes who asked her to come along with […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a 24-year-old man named D Chamara Lanka by the Kurunegala police during his arbitrary detention from 27 to 30 May 2006. He was arrested on the allegation of his involvement in a theft case. The manner he was tortured […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding fears of a possible escalation in violence as a result of ongoing fighting in the province of Maguindanao, Mindanao. At 9pm on June 28, around one hundred armed militias attacked a rebel claimed area in Sitio Lab, Barangay (village) Meta in Shariff […]