Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that 52-year-old Hettiarachchige Abeysiri residing at 506/1 Delgahawatte Wanawasala, Kelaniya was tortured to death by the Peliyagoda police on 14 July 2005 after being illegally arrested on 13 July 2005. The police allegedly arrested him on the very trivial grounds that his neighbor complained against […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about a sugar cane cutter losing his sight in one eye while working in the paddy fields that come under the Bardoli sugar factory in Surat District, Gujarat, India. In early March 2002, when Somabhai Shambhubhai Kotvalia, an adivasi (tribal person) […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an urgent appeal from People’s Watch – Tamil Nadu, a human rights organization in Tamil Nadu, India, regarding a Dalit woman who was beaten and severely tortured by the Sub Inspector (SI) and Inspector of the Police (IP) at the Sethur police station in Tamil […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another threat made against a judge in Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, former Magistrate of Wellawaya Magistrates’ Court, Janaka Bandara has recently received death threats by way of phone calls from unknown persons. These threats come prior to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the alleged illegal arrest, detention and brutal torture of a man by the Officer-in-Charge and other police personnel at the Morantuduwa Police Post in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. Athurugiriyage Jeevananda, a married father of one, was arbitrarily detained by the Morantuduwa police who […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding three persons illegally and arbitrarily detained at Jalangi police station of Murshidabad Distrcit, West Bengal India. Even though two of them were arrested and taken into custody on 1 July 2005 and the third […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture, arbitrary arrest and illegal detention of a young journalist in Nepal. Mr Chandralal Giri was initially detained by a group of plain clothed Royal Nepal Army personnel on 31 December 2004. He then spent two weeks in army barracks being […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from sources about the inaction of the police and the Attorney General in regards to the abduction and murder of a man in Chadani Village Development Committee (VDC)- 7, Haldughat, Kanchanpur by Maoists on 19 June 2005. Two Maoists in civil dress entered the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about the inaction of the police and the Ministry of Education in regards to the defamation and threatening of five school teachers by the principle of Kingswood College, Kandy. The teachers had been targeted by the principle after giving testimony against him before a Presidential […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the brutal murder of Phra Supoj Suwajano, a monk who had vociferously been protesting against illegal logging in Fang district, Chiang Mai province. Phra Supoj was stabbed to death on 17 June 2005 after exposing a log-poaching network near his Santi Dhamma […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village, 24 Parganas (North) District, West Bengal, India. Masoora Bibi, a widow lived in her in-laws house with her three children. On 18 June […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about another custodial death of a man at the Santaragacchi Government Railway Police Outpost, (SGRPO), under Shalimar Police Station, West Bengal, India. On 15 June 2005, Sunil Roy was travelling in a train to Howrah. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned by the alleged torture and death of Kosma Sumansiri by the Ratgama police. He was arrested with three of his friends  by the Ratgama police on 20 May 2005, charged with gambling and remanded at the Galle prison on the same day. However, he died on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and death of a man in Hlaing Township, Rangoon, Burma. On 1 May 2005 30-year-old Aung Hlaing Win, was arrested by four security agents in civilian clothing. The victim was illegally detained and handed over to the military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about a police attack on the students of Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India. On 11 June 2005, students belonging to the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU), Jadavpur University who had been protesting […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the restriction of human rights defenders and political atavists in Nepal. Freedom of movement, an inherent right, has been denied to many human rights and political activists. Though the Government of Nepal continues to reiterate its commitment to human […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is outraged that five Thai police officers have filed defamation complaints against a senior forensic scientist and government bureaucrat following the latter’s comments over an apparent extrajudicial killing which the police have maintained was a suicide. Although all evidence points to the fact that the police killed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim, who filed a charge of torture against the officer-in-charge (OIC) and a police constable from the Horana police station, has been threatened and intimidated by them in an effort to pressure him to withdraw his complaint. The victim, who was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding alleged fabricated charges laid against a human rights activists, who is a member of the Human Rights Commission fact-finding mission investigating a possible women’s rights violations of which the Chief Minister may have played a role that took place […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another case of extremely brutal torture by the police in Thailand. According to the information available to the AHRC, Mr Urai Srineh was illegally arrested and taken to the Chonburi Provincial Police Station where he was brutally tortured on 24-25 May 2005 in […]