Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named D.G. Athula Saman Kumara was illegally arrested on 16 February 2004 and is being tortured by the police officers at the Katugastota Police Station in Kandy, Sri Lanka. According to the report we have received, the victim, who is currently […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 27-year-old police constable trainee committed suicide due to the inhuman and rigorous training schedule as well as torture at the Kerala Armed Police Battalion, Maniyar Police Camp in Pathanamthitta District on 16 February 2004. It is alleged that the victim, who could […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was brutally tortured by Sub-inspector (S.I.) Silva of the Wellipenna Police Station at Kathutrara district on 3 February 2004. The cruelty of the torture is unbelievable and the victim, who needs urgent medical treatment, is currently in the Remand Prison at […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the young couple named Manoj Khanga and Parbati Raut, who had an inter-caste marriage, has been kidnapped by the girl’s relatives on 27 January 2004, and the Dalit community (80 people) of Bishanpur VDC-9, which the male victim belongs to, was attacked by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned with the killings of Ms. Malookan (45 years old) and Mr. Ali Dost, alias Moran Jakhrani (25 years old) in Kandhkot town, District Jacobabad, Sindh Province on 5 February 2004. They were allegedly shot dead by Bhooro Subzoai, a nephew of Ms. Malookan’s husband, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned at receiving information of yet another case of discrimination against Dalits in Nepal. A number of Dalits were beaten up and forbidden to enter the village temple in northwest Ajagaibi Village Development Committee, Rautahat district on 28 January 2004. Furthermore, at the village panchayat meeting […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of an attack against the Christian minority in Karachi, Pakistan. On 15 January 2004, a hand grenade was thrown through the window of the Bible Society, injuring one of the staff, Peter Pervaiz. About 20 minutes later, during which time people had gathered outside […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four individuals were arbitrarily arrested on 1 February 2004 by the security forces in Bajura (west part), Nepal, and are suspected of being seriously tortured while in custody. The four individuals, Messrs. Tula Thapa, Rajendra Adhikary, Ram Bhadur Rana and Man Bahadur Shah […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the arbitrary shooting of the Gampola police into a crowd, killing young Suranga Sampath. The police have further failed to conduct any investigation into this matter. Your urgent intervention to correct this matter is required. Urgent Appeals Desk Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) ——————————————————- […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that in an arbitrary act by the government of Maharashtra, the diet for foreign prisoners has been changed, and they are now forced to eat Indian food, which they cannot digest. Foreign prisoners in the Yervada central prison resorted to a hunger strike, resulting in the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Dalit teachers were transferred from Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India, on 3 December 2003, for objecting to the segregation of upper and lower caste students during the lunch meal. Another incident of discrimination occurred in the same week, also in Gujarat: Dalit Sarpanch […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the murder of two social activists, Sarita and Mahesh Kant in Gaya (Bihar) on 24 January 2004. The victims were shot by the armed men on the way back to the Fatehpur Block Recouse Centre from Shabdo. The perpetrators are believed to be […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned with the death threats received by Mr. James T. Godwin in Mahim, Mumbai, India.  Mr. Godwin, a person who has been challenging corruption in the society for several years, has filed various complaints with the Mahim Police Station regarding the illegal activities carried out […]

Dear friends Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of brutal torture of Jayasekara Vithanage Saman Priyankara, 32, at the Matale Police Station. The officers poured boiling water on his genitals that caused severe burnt wounds. The victim was arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the police only because he was rude to a ‘Gramaarakshaka (village […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the gang rape case of a 16 year old girl Miss. X (Name withheld).  She was abducted by a wealthy man David Kaiser (21 years old) and gang raped by at least 5-6 men on 2 July 2003. Even though the police identified […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the situation of 73 workers of the Jewelarts International in Maithree Mawatha, Ekala, Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, the managing director closed the factory with the support of the police on 6 May 2002 without any prior approval of […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of Mr. Tennakoon Mudiyanselage Gunesekera by six policemen from the Mahiyanganaya Police Station on 31 December 2003. The victim was severely assaulted by the perpetrators with wooden bats solely because he did not see one policeman’s bicycle parked near the hotel. […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one man was tortured by the police on 8 January 2004 because he gave up illegal liquor business. In the past the AHRC has reported several cases in which former illicit liquor sellers, who gave up such a business, were punished by police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the brutal attack by the police on the people of Baddegama village, Madahapola on 31 December 2003. When the torture victim’s mother went to the Gokarella Police Station to lodge the complaint, about 200 drunken policemen and their supporters who had gathered at […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) in Nepal that a young human rights activist, Mr. Chet Prakash Khatri, was killed by an unidentified group in Sarragaon of Phattepur Village Development Committee (VDC)-7 near to the Nepal-India border on 24 December 2003. The reason […]