Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that three more activists have been killed, one of whom was a priest, while another priest is facing serious threats on his life in separate incidents in the Philippines. On May 16, activist Jose Doton was killed while his brother Cancio was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following information regarding the brutal death of farmer Mr. Bagbul Islam Mondal from its partner organisation Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum). On 12 May 2006, Mr. Bagbul and his brother Masidul were working on their farm cultivating paddy crops at dag. No 273 and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is alarmed by the continuing reports of forced disappearances of persons in Pakistan with the latest incident involving 12 people having been disappeared in recent weeks. The persistent practice of such acts undermines the deepest values of commitment to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms. Intervention must […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another forcible abduction and subsequent disappearance of three men in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija on 17 May 2006. Armed men believed to be military agents forcibly took victims Domingo Guinto (a.k.a Jojo), Abelardo Interior and Virgilio Tranquilino from their houses. The […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the refusal of the Dodangoda police to register a complaint. On 24 May 2006, L Sarath Vijitha was assaulted by an anti-narcotics squad for the sole reason he knocked their van. Accordingly he requested to lodge a complaint but allegedly, the police refused […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the abduction and subsequent disappearance of two more activists in separate incidents on 8 and 16 May 2006. Activist Philip Limjoco was last seen on May 8 by his son Glen at a bus terminal in Dau, Pampanga. On May 16 activist […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is alarmed by the continuing reports of forced disappearances of political activists with the latest incident involving two members from the Jeay Sindh Quomi Mahaz Nationalist Party. The persistent practice of such acts undermines the deepest values of commitment to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms. Intervention […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an appalling case of arbitrary use of police authority against a man whom they accused to have interfered and disturbed police duties. On 7 April 2006, at 7.20am Indika Kulasekara was driving his bus and was collecting passengers as usual. The bus […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention the killing of a police inspector and his wife following his alleged attempt to inquire into drug related crimes. Though the inspector was previously charged for colluding with underworld drug dealers, he and six of his fellow officers maintained their innocence […]

AUSTRALIA: Threat of deportation of asylum seekers; failure to consider plight of asylum seekers; lack of impartial refugee assessment; failure to respect international obligations —————————————————— Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), a local organisation, that Mr. Huseiyin Duman and his family are at […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern over fears of a possible violent dispersal of factory workers on protest. Protesting workers of S. P. Venture Corporation, a Korean owned garment factory operating inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ), have conducted a picket since 6 May 2006; a day after […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its concern of the failure of law enforcement officials to respond to complaints of domestic violence leading to wider measures of impunity for the perpetrators of this form of violence. Ms. Dharsari was married to G. Paramasivam and they had two children. During the four years […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports from local sources alleging that members of the armed forces indiscriminately opened fire on a crowd of three thousand civilian protestors, killing six and injuring 50 others, following an incident of gang-rape and killing by security personnel based in the Morang District, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the principal of St Mary’s School, Hambanthota has manipulated his authority to arbitrarily suspend pupils from school. Five school girls were met with disapproval after being accused of going out with other male students after school. For some time the girls have been subject […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Rev. Jemias Tinambacan was shot dead and his wife Rev. Marilou Tinambacan was wounded by four gunmen along the national highway in Brgy. Mobod, Oroquieta City, Philippines on 9 May 2006. One of the perpetrators was identified by Rev. Marilou Tinambacan as Mr. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an appalling case of police brutality and torture of a man whom they accused of having stolen goods. When the man repeated to deny having done so, they tied his arms and legs together, hung him from a pole and beat him […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Chhatak police in Sunamganj district neglected to act on a complaint of a man’s disappearance, which may have resulted in the killing of the disappeared man. When the police were informed of the disappearance they refused to lodge a complaint regarding it, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a 14-year-old boy by a local businessman, who forced the boy to work for him on 29 April 2006, and the subsequent appalling conduct of the local police. On April 29, residents of the Hirana village noticed a young boy […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged repeated rape of a 12-year-old girl by a traffic police constable in Dhaka between 7 and 15 April 2006. The traffic police constable falsely assured the girl that he would help her to reach home. However, the police constable took the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the illegal arrest and detention of Mr. Santhosh Patel, a staff member of PVCHR, on 10 May 2006. Mr. Santhosh was meeting the District Magistrate Mr. Rajiv Agarwal to lodge a complaint […]