Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Mr. Kavirathna Priyantha Kumara de Silva (37) was severely tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Weerasiri, Police Constable 15050 Amitha, and another policeman attached to the Kalutara North Police Station after being illegally arrested on 19 December 2004. Due to […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of death of two young children on 20 December 2004 after the explosion of an army shell, which had been carelessly discarded in a tea garden next to an army training facilities. One year ago, Mrs Mithi Mangar, mother of the two young […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the grief of those faced with one of the worst natural catastrophes of recent times by way of the tsunamis that devastated several countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar and Malaysia. In particular, it is reported that over 18,000 people were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the gang rape of a woman by police personnel in Chuadanga, Bangladesh. On the night of 18 December 2004, 14 policemen from the Gokulkhali outpost in Chuadanga are alleged to have gang raped Dali Khatun after they picked her up from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a group of state officers including the Mae Sot police, immigration officers and officers Department of Labour illegally searched the community Burmese worker center in Mae Sot run by the Migrant Assistance Program (MAP Foundation) in corporate with Yang Chi Oo Worker Association […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by recent events regarding the Bar Association of Cambodia.  Of most significance was the overturning of election results for the Bar Association by the Appeals Court.  The 16 October 2004 bi-annual election for the Bar Association presidency resulted in a surprise victory for Mr […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of another alleged police murder of a man, just 26 days after the murder of the torture victim, Gerald Perera, who died on November 24 after being shot by an unknown person with alleged links to the torture perpetrators. According to the information we […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another illegal arrest and forced disappearance of a young man named Mr Naniram Kafle (23) by around 50 personnel of the Joint-Security Force, which took place in the Naubise Village Development Committee-1, Dharke, Dhading, Nepal on 21 September 2004. His whereabouts are currently […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand about the illegal jailing of a villager in Burma in relation to a farmers’ petition submitted to the authorities opposing the forced production of paddy. The villager, Ko Sein Win, was summarily sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that Mr Biswanath Modal, a 45-year-old farmer, died after being mercilessly tortured by two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Malda District, West Bengal, India on the afternoon of 4 December 2004. Biswanath’s fellow villagers, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization in West Bengal, that 11 police officers, allegedly involved in the disappearance of Partha Majumdar seven years ago, have been charged by the Additional District and Session Judge, 1st Court at Barasat, through Partha’s family’s […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Sanjay Somnath Gaikwad, a driver in Rahata town, Maharashtra, was mercilessly beaten by police personnel at 10:30 p.m. on 11 November 2004, and is now fighting for his life in a hospital.  It is reported that Sanjay filed a complaint against two members […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained further information about institutionalised torture at a police station in Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, Thailand. The latest information relates to a case of torture and forced confession in March, involving two victims.  Earlier, one of the victims, Metta Saiphan, was referred to as the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that six persons have been seriously injured with a number of women and children receiving minor injuries in Bojong Village in Kelapanunggal District in indonesia on 22 November 2004 when the police officers called BRIMOB [Mobile Brigade; Indonesia’s paramilitary police] from Resimen I Kedunghalang […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender named Mr. Joel B. Baclao was shot dead outside his house in Barangay Lacag, Daraga, Albay on 10 November 2004 by an unidentified man. Mr. Baclao’s family suspects that the victim might have been killed by a person linked […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another two cases of released detainees having been re-arrested in spite of court orders, which took place in Banke District. The whereabouts of both victims remain unknown.  In the first case, the victim is a 16-year-old boy named Jhurri Teli.  The Appellate Court in Nepalgunj issued his release […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that Mr Abhijnan Basu, a prisoner at Presidency Jail Kolkata, has died on 19 November 2004 due to burn injuries to 90 per cent of his body, after he was set alight by prison wardens […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that the family of Indonesian human rights activist Munir (38), who died of arsenic poisoning aboard a plane flight on 7 September 2004, has been receiving death threats for demanding that an impartial inquiry be held regarding his death. Munir, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention eight reported cases of extra-judicial killings by personnel from the Joint Security team in Nepal. In seven of the eight cases, plain clothed security personnel went to the homes of seven men, demanding that the men come forward.  During this process, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that Mr. Anal Abedin, a reporter of Anandabazar Patrika [leading newspaper in West Bengal] was  attacked by 30 armed men led by an ex-chairman of Berhampore Municipality, Mr. Akbar Kabir alias Babul Kabir at his residence on […]