Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Indonesia Environment Forum (WALHI)’s branch office of West Nusa Tenggara province regarding the brutal attack and intimidation of protesters against sand mining. The protesters were conducting a peaceful protest in front of the local parliament of East Lombok regency, calling for the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of Mr. Siyono, who was arrested and detained by the anti-terror police unit (known as Special Detachment 88), on accusation of being a terrorist. The police initially stated that Mr. Siyono died while attacking a police officer guarding him at the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the only person facing charges in the murder case of human rights defender Mr. Chai Boontonglek, has been acquitted by the Wieng Sra Provincial Court. Mr. Boontonglek was murdered on 11 February 2015, and is the fourth human rights defender killed in Khlong Sai […]

Dear Friends, The situation in Chattisgarh is veering out of control. Activist lawyers of the Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group, journalist Malini Subramaniam, and activist and politician Soni Sori have been harassed, threatened, and subject to violence. The attacks on their person and freedom of movement expose the situation in Chattisgarh to be dire. It is […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the disappearance of several activists of a proscribed nationalist group, Jeay Sindh Muttehda Mahaz (JSSM), from Sindh Province. In the recent days, the Rangers and police, in front of dozens of onlookers, have arrested two cousins, and since then their whereabouts are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. M. Mohan (56) and Sri Devi (35) of No: 84/25/1, Pathana Watte, Sunduhumpola in the Kandy District have been illegally arrested and detained. On 30th January 2016, fabricated charges have been filed before the Magistrate of Kandy by police officers attached to […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information provided by Yogyakarta Legal Aid (LBH Yogyakarta) regarding a vicious attack and abuse of power conducted by the Indonesian police, the Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP), and the Army against local residents who have refused to cooperate with the government in its plan […]

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to express concern regarding the arrest and torture of four men in Cavite. The victims were tied, beaten and electrocuted. They were arbitrarily arrested and forced to confess to participation in an alleged bombing. They were later charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives, and […]

Dear Friends, The AHRC has received information from its partner organization Nervazhi that five youngsters have been tortured and harassed at a police station in Kerala. They were riding their motorbikes when the Anthikkad police stopped them. The police proceeded to harass and torture them for 10 hours. They were questioned about whether they had […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has information provided by the Commission for the Disappearances and Victims of Violence (KontraS), a national human rights organization. A light punishment was meted out to four police officers of Sungailiat Police Resort (Polres Sungailiat) in the torture to death of Mr. Suharli (alias Tembo). Despite the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the continued harassment, assault and torture of indigenous villagers by several military forces of the 73rd Infantry Battalion Philippine Army in separate incidents. In one incident, the villagers were forced to evacuate due to the encampment of military forces. In another incident, a […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to inform you that 12 human rights defenders and conflict victims – Charan Prasai, Sabitri Shrestha, Janak Raut, Ram Bhandari, Ashok Joshi, Rasna Dhakal, Bikash Basnet, Kanak Mani Dixit, Ishwor Acharya, Bikram Chaudhary, Bikram Dhukuchu, and Surya Adhikari – have been arrested at around 8:30 […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about three student protesters who face multiple cases over peaceful assembly and procession. The students’ call for amendment of the 2008 Constitution led them to face criminal charges. They are at present detained in Insein Prison, where they await trial. Two cases have been […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that an indigenous man was killed by members of paramilitary group in Bukidnon. The victim sustained wounds on different parts of his body from a gunshot and a machete. The victim’s grandchildren and other community members were also wounded in the incident. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police brutally attacked members of a peaceful protest conducted by labor unions in front of the Presidential Palace on 30 October 2015. As a result of the attack, two of the Jakarta Legal Aid (LBH) Lawyers, 24 laborers and one university student were […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the Criminal Investigation Agency of the Police Headquarters (Bareskrim Mabes Polri) has summoned human rights defender Mr. Erwin Natosmal Oemar for questioning regarding his statement on a TV talk show on 25 August 2015. Mr. Erwin works at the Indonesian Legal Roundtable (ILR), an […]

Dear Friends, The AHRC has received information about the cold blooded murder of a police officer, Mr. P.J. Marbaniang, in Ri Bhoi District of Meghalaya. The murder took place on the same day Mr. Marbaniang detained 32 trucks that were illegally transporting coal. The coal was being illegally transported despite the orders against such transportation […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance of  a fisher folk leader after his arrest by the Pakistan Rangers. He was the general secretary of Pakistan Fisher Folk, and an employee of the Fishermen Cooperative Society. Senior Rangers officials at the zonal office called Saeed Baloch to their […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Jakarta Legal Aid (LBH Jakarta) regarding the forced eviction of local residents of Bukit Duri, Tebet sub-district, South Jakarta by local authorities. Mr. Aldo Felix Januardy, a public lawyer from LBH Jakarta, was brutally attacked while trying to negotiate with the civil […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of criminal charges brought against a senior Corruption Eradication Commission investigator, Mr. Novel Baswedan. The Indonesian Ombudsman on December 2015 has issued a recommendation stating that the police have fabricated evidence and therefore the Chief of National Police has to […]