Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is in receipt of information regarding the torture of Mr. Nar Bahadur Bista by police personnel from Mahendranagar District Police Office on 1 March 2006. Though arrested and detained on March 1, the victim was not provided a detention letter until March 12. After a lawyer from […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), of the death of Mousami Raha, who died due to burns to 90% of her body caused by her husband and his family. The victim’s father, Bimal Chandra Das, has requested the post-mortem report from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a reliable source regarding the repeated psychological and physical torture of Ms. Meena Gharti Magar by police at the Area Police Office in Tulsipur and by Teke Kumar, the sub-inspector of Tulsipur prison. As a result of the torture, Ms. Magar decided […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a student, M Rukman Asanka Perera by his school Buddhism teacher, Hiriwewe Gnaneswara on 9 March 2006. On March 9, at around 10 a.m, a group of parents had been protesting in the Jayanthi Navodya school premises about a proposed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of a 39-year-old farmer from Pitigala Hill, Kalavana by two policemen from the Kalavana police station on 12 March 2006. The policemen also forced Mr. E. Gnanadasa to sign a written statement, the contents of which he was unaware. Mr. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the unlawful criminal trial and arbitrary detention of an eight-year-old boy. On 10 March 2006, an eight-year-old boy named Muhamad Azwar (a.k.a Raju) was found guilty of assaulting his schoolmate by Judge Tiurmaida Pardede at Langkat District Court, North […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal attacks on opposition party activist, Mr. Zahirul Islam Litu, by members of the youth wing of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Mr Litu is a 35-year-old visually impaired fishery worker and Joba League worker. On 4 January 2006, Mr. Akteruzzaman […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 8-year-old, UG Isani Madushani by her class teacher, Sarath on 22 February 2006. On February 22, at around 12 noon, Isani Madushani was attending her math class. Her class teacher, Sarath instructed her to recite the multiplication table but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 76-year-old Mr. K Victor Fernando by Police Constable Ratwatte of the Panadura South police station on 13 February 2005, and the police’s failure to take action in this case, despite a year having now passed. On 13 February 2005, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), a labour and human rights organisation based in Quezon City, detailing the disappearance of labour leader, Rogelio Concepcion on 6 March 2006. Concepcion’s family fears that he could have been abducted by elements of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations from Kerala, India. The local police continue to use torture and assault as a means of criminal investigation. The lack of adequate laws to prevent torture and the disastrously poor quality of lawyers available deny victims an early, but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a young couple, namely Mr. D. Indika Wasantha and Mrs. Kumudini Malkanthi, by the Rathgama police on 16 February 2006. It is alarming that the police did not hesitate to assault the eight months pregnant woman, who was on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding human rights violations in Varanasi, India, at the hands of local police officers who act with complete impunity. In this latest incident Santosh Kumar Singh was forcibly and arbitrarily detained and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that 11 persons were brutally tortured and subsequently charged with fabricated charges following their arrest on 14 February 2006. They were arrested at a checkpoint in Abatan, Buguias, Benguet while backpacking. According to a report by the Cordillera Human Rights […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the killing of Allan Ibasan and his uncle Dante Salgado allegedly by military agents after their arrest on 31 January 2006. Allan was last seen alive by his brother Glen and fellow labourers at a bamboo plantation while being taken by military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding human rights violations in Varanasi, India, at the hands of local police officers who act with complete impunity. In the latest series of incidents an innocent school student was brutally beaten, a man was tortured in police custody and another man was shot-dead […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the case of a couple who were twice brutally assaulted in public by a gang led by a local council chief in Burma during September 2005. Ma Aye Aye Aung and her husband Ko Tint Zaw complained that they were beaten up illegally, but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that 19-year-old activist, Audie Lucero, was found dead in Barangay (village) Capitangan, Abucay, Bataan on 13 February 2006. Lucero suffered fatal gunshot wounds to his back, knee and left hand and his body had traces of torture marks. According to information from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, regarding the arrest and subsequent forcible disappearance of Reynaldo Manalo and his brother Raymond on 14 February 2006. Reynaldo and Raymond were separately arrested by five men believed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following letter from Dr. K. Manoharan of Trincomalee, whose son was one of five students murdered on 2 January 2006. As we believe that the problems he has raised are of the greatest importance from the point of view of witness protection in Sri […]