Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka on 10 October 2005. The victim was reportedly threatened at knife-point and forcibly drugged before being raped. She was then put onto a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, who was severely beaten by policemen who arrested him at a park in Sreekanteswaram, Kerala, India on 27 September 2005. It was learned that Mr. Udayakumar was arrested together with his companion, Mr. Mani, because […]

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture; arbitrary arrest and detention; fabricated charges; threat and intimidation —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture of a man by the Poddala Police in what appears to be a case instigated by a private party in return for favours to the police. […]

SRI LANKA: Police misconduct; custodial torture; threat and intimidation, government inaction —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and inhuman attack on a student by a member of the Aralaganvile Police Station on 7 August 2005. M. S. Duminda Aluthe was taken into custody after having been […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of our serious concern in relation to a Sri Lankan lawyer who has appeared for the complainants in many well-known human rights cases and who is now facing grave threats to his security. WR Sanjeewa has been receiving telephone calls and other forms […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that five persons were beaten to death by a mob of villagers after they were suspected of having stolen motorcycles in Barasat, West Bengal on 2 October 2005. One of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that a man, Tarun Hati, was beaten to death by the husband and relatives of a woman, Nirupama Hazra, whom he was believed to be having an illicit relationship with in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance and alleged murder of a journalist from the daily Berita Sore newspaper in Nias, North Sumatera, Indonesia. The victim, Elyuddin Telaumanua (known as Ely) was kidnapped by a group of people in Teluk Dalam Kabupaten Southern Nias on 24 August 2005. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of a 16-year-old girl following a Jirga calling for her death for having dishonoured her tribe. Ms. Bashi of the Luhar tribe left her parents home to marry Mr. Munaware of the Otho tribe. When her father and several relatives approached the elder […]

SRI LANKA: Arson attack against Human Rights Commission headquarters; resistance against those fighting for victims of police crime; threat and intimidation —————————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to voice its strong condemnation of the attack on the Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the early hours of […]

SRI LANKA: Assault; threat and intimidation; right to education; inaction by the police and education authorities ———————————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the inhuman and degrading treatment and the deprivation of the right to education of a 16-year-old school girl by her school principal in Sri Lanka. J. […]

INDIA: Gang rape; attempted murder; murder; Border Security Forces; police inaction; legal representation; failure of the courts; rule of law; women’s rights; child rights ——————————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, regarding the gang rape of a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human +Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 16-year-old boy was assaulted by a school teacher at the Pannampitiya Secondary School in Lenadora, Dumbulla District, Sri Lanka on 22 September 2005. Due to the assault, the boy suffered from bad ear pain and blurred vision. He also had several scratches […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of yet another honour killing case in Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to this information, 22-year-old, Ms. Soneet was killed by her husband, Mohammad Sidique on 17 September 2005. It was reported that Mohammed Sidique killed his wife on suspicion of her having […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged murder of a young student monk at the hands of those whose care he had been left in. Fifteen year old W. M. Kapila Chandra Kumara was taken by his parents to study under the Diyamalkanda temple […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from People’s Watch – Tamil Nadu, a human rights organistion in Tamil Nadu, India, regarding Tamil prisoners languishing in jails in the Maldives who have allegedly been brutally assaulted, harassed, humiliated, ill-treated and tortured by the jail authorities there. Specifically the information refers to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the four farmers illegally arrested in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao on 2 September 2005 by combined elements of the 25th and 66th Infantry Battalion (IB), Philippine Army were allegedly tortured during an investigation. It was reported that one of the victims, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informed you on 22 September 2005 that a people’s tribunal hearing on starvation and government neglect will be held at Bankim Niwas in Jalangi, Murshidabad, West Bengal on September 23 and 24, organized by the Howrah-based Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) and ourselves (for further details AS-96-2005). Since […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two student activists were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Kalimati police in Kathmandu on 13 and 14 September 2005. One of the two students, Shiv Bohora (23), the acting president of the Nepal Students Union at Mahendra Ratna Campus, fell unconscious […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has very disturbing news from local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) that the police in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal, beat a man to death during routine inquiries on 18 September 2005. According to the reports, since the man was killed, the police and local authorities […]