Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one more journalist, Sampath Lakmal Silva was found shot and killed on the morning of 2July 2006.  Mr. Silva is believed to have been abducted, brought to the scene of his execution and shot, according to the media quoting police sources. Mr. Silva […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention to support a young man named Amitha Deepthi Kumara who is currently in illegal police custody and receives continued torture at the Meegahathenna Police Station in Sri Lanka. The police arrested him on the allegation of his involvement in a case of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman named Mrs. Rasheda Khatun, the Family Planning Inspector (FPI) of the health and family planning department in Satkhira District, was tortured by the Sub Inspector of Police (SI) in the office room of the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Satkhira District, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Hathazari police in Chittagong District arbitrarily arrested six persons in the early morning of 29 June 2006. Among the six persons, a man named Mr. Rashed Ullah died next day as a result of the severe torture committed by Mr. Kamrul Islam, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that an alleged rapist has been granted bail by a judge of the Special Tribunal of Women and Children Repression Prevention of Dinajpur District despite having persuasive evidence in the medical report and in the police investigation report of the perpetrator’s guilt. The victim […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that on the morning of 27 June 2006 the Municipality of Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s seaport town and seaside resort, sent a mixed police force of 100 men armed with rifles and electric batons, 80 workers, three bulldozers and 10 trucks to evict 32 families from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is outraged at a systematic attempt to intimidate and possibly abduct a member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Thailand. Vasant Panich has informed us that on June 28 his vehicle was followed and that there was a clear pattern of surveillance on him and […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that there has been further violence between police and peasants in the village of Tanah Awu in Central Lombok, Indonesia. On 21 June 2006 government officials from Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara came to Tanah Awu with a large number […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has come to learn of a second assault instituted by a man who is a police informer attached to the Mirihane Police. In both incidents the alleged perpetrator threatened the victims that they too would suffer the same fate as Gerald Perera. That this man believes it is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just learned that Ms Em Ponny had been assaulted by three of her superiors on 17 June 2006. Em Ponny is a teacher at the Wat Mohamontrey primary school in Olympic commune, Chamcar Mon District, Phnom Penh, and is a member of an independent teachers union […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that four activists have been killed in separate incidents, among whom was a couple engaged in developmental work. On June 17, activist Tito Marata was killed by gunmen in Loboc village, Oroquieta City. On June 19, George and his wife Maricel were […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the dead body of Anarkali Bibi. It was learnt that the hospital authority abandoned the late Anarkali‘s body to an area infested with rats. This is not only a case of negligence but also one […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two persons, both local opposition political leaders, were arbitrarily arrested on suspicion, detained and tortured while in the custody of the Mohonpur police on 2 June 2006. Both victims received considerable injuries including one sustaining a broken hand as a result of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that four persons, including a pregnant woman were tortured while one was arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Paikgachha police in Khulna district on 3 May 2006. The victims received considerable injuries due to the police torture. One of the arrested persons was later […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Rajarhat police in Kurigram district allegedly killed a man on the night of 22 June 2006. Mr. Kasi Uddin went to the police and requested the release of his younger brother, Mr. Tajul Islam, who had earlier been arrested. Sub Inspector of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about an incident relating to the detention and assault of two US medical students by the police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The students were allegedly held on fabricated charges of assault against a man and were detained without permission for bail for 18 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) of an alleged rape of a minor by an official in Burma. U Aung Myo Min, an executive of the Union Solidarity and Development Association allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl and then threatened her to keep silent. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of the appalling gang rape of a 17-year-old girl by six men who are allegedly members of local political parties. The 17-year-old victim (whose name we withhold) was kidnapped on 6 June 2006. It is alleged that she was taken from her neighbourhood […]

Dear friends, It is with much regret that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continued torture and assault of journalists and media personnel in Pakistan, with a report of three further cases. The persistent practice of such acts undermines the deepest values of commitment to respect human rights and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned that on 15 June 2006 Colonel Neou Ol, Deputy  Director of the Development Centre of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces located in Kompong Speu province, sent some 40 fully armed soldiers to evict over 40 families from their lands in Tuk Chenh village, Treng Tro-Yoeung commune, […]