Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Vidana Mahaduralage Somarathne, a farmer by possession, was illegally arrested, detained and severely tortured by the four police officers attached to the Polpithigama Police on 20 March 2013 at Ma Eliya Junction. Mr. Vidana started screaming in pain in the early morning […]

Dear friends: The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the murder and probable rape of a 16-year-old girl in Imphal West District, Manipur State. On the 5 March 2013, local fishermen found the body of pregnant girl, deceased, Ms. C1 (name withheld), floating in Haorang cannel. Although a confessor has emerged and taken […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an Indian prisoner was tortured to death by officials of the Kot Lakhpat prison of Lahore, Punjab. He was inhumanely beaten to death for committing the ‘crime’ of washing his clothes at a public tap at the courtyard of the jail. The jail […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the demolition of a church in Bekasi by the local authorities. The authorities claimed the demolition was performed as the church does not hold the necessary construction permit required by law. The permit was actually ‘being processed’ by the relevant authorities after the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attacks on the houses belonging to Ahmadis. The attackers were from two religious organizations, the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SP) and Khatm-e-Nabowat (KN) and were provided with protection by the police during the attack. The local in-charge of the Ahmadiya Jamat was seriously injured when […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of a young man in Chitwan in 2004 by Maoist cadres in the midst of the civil war, following a personal dispute. No investigation has been held into the circumstances of his death as the alleged perpetrators have benefited from high […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arrest and detention of two teenagers based on fabricated charges in Paniai, Papua. The police arrested them after finding a woven bag filled with a cartridge and other materials associated with pro-independence movement, which did not belong to either of them but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Ms. Kumarapperuma Arrachige Dileeka Shanthi Kusum, a 33-year-old mother of two was beaten in public by the Chairman of the Co-op Lanka, Kotapola. Dileeka Shanthi Kusum was hospitalised due to the injuries she received in the incident and has made complaints to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a fifteen year old boy was arrested under allegations of illegal possession of arms and robbery and was tortured three times in the same day to make him confess those crimes. He has been remanded in custody on three occasions for a total […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the raid conducted by a joint police and military force in Paniai, Papua. The raid was conducted to find members of the pro-independence group but the joint force arrested six civilians who are not related in any way with this group. Four officers […]

Dear friends: The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding peaceful rallies that took place on March 12, 2013, in observance of International Rivers Day, regarding opposition to the Chakpi Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project. The dam is proposed to be built over Chakpi River in Chandel District, Manipur in the Northeast of India near the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a newlywed Pakistani couple was abducted from Nepal by agents of the Indian intelligence agencies while they were leaving for Pakistan. They were quickly shifted to India where they were kept in a private torture cell for 17 days where they suffered severe […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding peaceful protests against the adoption of the European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Indian government. The cases took place on 24 February in Maram Khullen, 28 February in Chandel and on 2 March of 2013 in Thamnapokpi. Demonstrators called for […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is requesting your intervention to demand that an investigation be conducted into allegations of the violent dispersal of protesting students. The students, who were opposing the appointment of the new head of a State university due to allegation of corruption, were attacked by joint forces of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a priest in Pania, Papua, which took place on 2 March 2013. The priest was arrested and beaten by five police officers after randomly shouted in front of a police station. As a result, the priest was injured but the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from Samaj Chetna Adhikar Manch, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh regarding local goons threatening to kill its activists. The organisation, working in Java block of the district, has been in the forefront of the struggle against malnutrition and the widespread corruption in welfare schemes that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Balasundaram Jeyamagudam (32) was illegally arrested, detained and severely tortured by Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) officers for two months without being produced in court. He is married and has a son aged 6. Balasundaram was never involved in the any of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Kitnasami Rajendran(57) of Udayarkattu North, Udayarkattu in Mullaitivu District was illegally arrested in 2008 and has been detained without trial for more than four years. He was tortured in the custody of the Colombo Criminal Investigation Division and is now detained at […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is extremely concerned by reports that the Executive Director of the Human Rights Alliance was assaulted by six unidentified persons in retaliation for an article denouncing the impunity surrounding the murder of a school teacher by Maoist cadres in 2002. The four assailants, thought to be Maoist […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the lack of progress in the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Chhori Maiya Maharjan which occurred one year ago. Chhori Maiya went missing on February 28, 2012 in Kathmandu, after visiting a friend to whom she had lent money to […]