Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the shooting of two senior high school students in Jl. Gatot Subroto, Kasintuwu, Poso Kota, Central of Sulawesi, Indonesia on 8 November 2005.  At 6.50 pm, two unidentified persons riding motorcycles shot the two students before escaping the scene of the crime. This […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the police shooting upon a crowd, which led to the death of five persons and injuries to a further 50. On 19 October 2005, police from the Companiganj police station, under the jurisdiction of the Noakhali district, gunned down […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kaluthara Guruge Thilan Suranga Jayasinghe, who was arbitrarily arrested upon false accusations and was allegedly severely tortured and detained by the Dambulla Police.  Mr. Jayasinghe claims he was beaten and kicked in the face, head and stomach by police officers, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police sergeant was tortured and subsequently arrested by policemen attached to the Wadduwa police station.  The victim’s motorbike and mobile phone were also confiscated.  The victim sustained considerable injuries and was admitted to the Panadura hospital where the doctor chained him to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Vidhanelage Ajith Wickramage, who was arbitrarily arrested by police officers from the Galewela Police Station, and his mother, who was verbally assaulted and threatened by the police officers.  Mr. Wickramage claims that he was brutally tortured by the police, who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two men, namely Michael Bautista (22) and Benjamin Agustines (19), both laborers and residents of Dagohoy Paradise, Barangay Dadiangas North, General Santos City, Mindanao, were severely beaten allegedly by a member of the Joint Task Force GenSan (JTFG), a military contingent assigned in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a man due to severe torture by the Railway Police Force on 28 October 2005 in Kharagpur, Medinipore District, West Bengal. On October 20, the railway protection force (RPF) arrested the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Campaign for Popular Media Reform (CPMR) (Thailand) that a farmer who was running a community radio station in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Constitution has been taken to court on charges of illegal broadcasting under a law that predates the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information confirming that Singapore will go ahead with the execution of an Australian man convicted of drug smuggling. As reported in our previous forwarded appeal on 25 October 2005 (FA-33-2005), Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, was sentenced to death for importing 396 grams of heroin into […]

INDIA: Assault; murder; inaction by police and hospital authorities; failure of justice; rule of law Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of an assault victim in West Bengal.  The man was brutally and fatally assaulted after his goat had entered the alleged perpetrators’ land and eaten some […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about an attempted rape in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, by a local police officer on October 15. The officer, who was drunk at the time, allegedly forced his way into the house and tried to commit rape after extorting money from the […]

INDONESIA: Freedom of religion, religious discrimination, physical attack, threats and intimidation, religious intolerance, government and police inaction —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attack and intimidation on the minority Islamic religious sect, Ahmadiyyah members by other villagers in Ketapang Village, West Lombok, Lombok Island, Indonesia, on 19 October 2005. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and disturbing case of rape of a 14 year-old girl in the town of Talawakelle.  The young girl was deceived, raped and then assaulted by three boys who then locked her up without food and water for two days.  When the […]

Dear friends, The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) have announced that in early 2006 the Thai-language service of the BBC World Service radio will be taken off the air. The closure of the service has been justified as part of restructuring, because according to the BBC it has “low market […]

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest and detention; Alleged torture; Post-custodial death; Police misconduct; Impunity; Rule of law —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of A.D. Lalantha Fernando who was illegally arrested and later died after being held in police custody on 10 October 2005 in Meegaswela, Koswatte. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just received information on two cases of inhuman police torture committed separately by the Matara police and Hikkaduwa police.  In the first case, Mr. Damith Vijitha Kumara, was arrested by the Matara police at his workplace along with his mother and sister.  He was stripped naked […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attempt by Guria, a human rights organization in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, to rescue underage girls from forced prostitution. The girls, who were freed from brothels by Guria, were later taken away by the police and are believed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peace Worldwide, a human rights organization in Islamabad, Pakistan regarding an extrajudicial killing of a young man by the Khosar police. According to the information we have received, Mr. Amjad Masih (25), who was accused of the theft, was tortured to death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Forum for Indigenous Perspectives and Action in Manipur, India regarding human rights violations committed by the security personnel at Thanga Karang, Bishenpur District, Manipur. According to the information received, members of the 73 Mountain Brigade under the aegis of 57 Mountain Division […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that a man, Manoj Thalis (26), was severely tortured by policemen attached to the Gokarella police station on 24 September 2005. Police arrested Manoj whom they accused of being an accomplice of a man they earlier arrested for murder, but […]