Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman, who received a stay order from court over a dispute on ownership of her house, was picked up by policemen and their informers and taken to a private detention centre where she was gang raped for more than 50 days. The […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Sindh police has stopped the investigation into the case of a gang rape of a 13-year old girl as a result of the case involving powerful people, among them two lawyers belonging to the ruling party. A doctor, who is also affiliated […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) illegally arrested a lawyer named Mr. Mantu Ghosh detained him in a number of fabricated charges for 72 days. Mr. Ghosh is a central committee member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and an advisor to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that in recent days illegal arrests, abduction, killings and disappearances by the law enforcement agencies have increased in Balochistan province after the announcement by the Federal Interior minister that a lesson must be taught to Balochi insurgents by any means necessary. The Frontier Corps, a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the Gosairhat Police of Shariatpur district, around 120 kilometers far from Dhaka, have brutally tortured a man to death. The relatives and witnesses allege that the body of the torture victim, Mr. Mokles Matbor, bore several marks from the injuries sustained. The police had […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and other rights groups about brutal form of torture to the prisoners. The male organ of three prisoners were taped for many hours in such a way that they could no longer urinate. Each was then forced […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Burmese migrant workers in the city of Khon Kaen in north east Thailand, holding a peaceful protest against their employer for illegally keeping their legal documents, had allegedly been fired upon by gunmen. To frighten them, the gunmen fired shots into the community […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot dead by police officers attached to the Pitigala Police Station on 27 August 2010. A wood cutter by profession the victim was shot at Wadumulla, Delpawana in Benthota State Plantation and later succumbed to his injuries. Police claim that […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot by police officers while in the custody of Mihintale Police. He was arrested on 9 June 2009 and brought to a location in the forest at Netiyagama in Mihintale by the police officers where he was shot. He was […]

Dear friends,  Police in Wamena, Papua killed Ismail Lokobal, fired near fatal shots at Amos Wetipo (which resulted in him slipping into a coma) and Frans Lokobal and arrested of at least 4 more persons. The shootings into the crowd and following arrests in Wamena, Papua followed the confiscation of an air cargo delivery to […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed about the killing of four farmers under the pretext of a ‘legitimate encounter’ in Mobo, Masbate. The farmers, all members of a local farmers’ organization, were resting inside a house after they had gone hunting, when soldiers open fired on them. The soldiers were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers attached to the Ahangama Police Station have illegally arrested, detained and tortured a civilian. Later the police refused to provide necessary urgent medical treatment. After the victim sought justice by filling a fundamental rights application at the Human Rights Commission he […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 15 year old school going girl was abducted by the driver of a three wheel but later rescued by passers-by. The culprit managed to escape but the rescuers took the three wheeler to the Rattota Police Station where they were also able […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was illegally arrested by the police officers attached to the Ma Oya Police Post in the district of Polonnaruwa when he went to make a complaint. He was severely tortured and denied medical treatment. He only received medical treatment at the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned over questionable complaints of murder laid against eleven human rights and political activists in Camarines Sur province. They had already been subpoenaed to respond to the complaint by the military that they were responsible for attacking a military camp, which killed two persons and […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man has died in the custody of the Kottawa Police. He was arrested in the evening 23 May 2010 and brought to the Kottawa Police Station where he was detained inside the police cell. The victim was found dead on the following […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a seven-year-old child was gunned down by officers attached to the Maharagama Police at Beruwala town, which is well outside their jurisdiction, on 15 September 2010. The injured child was admitted to the Beruwala Government Hospital and transferred to the General Hospital of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot dead by police officers while in the custody of an officer attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lankan Police. He was arrested on 31 August 2010 and brought to Colombo. While travelling by police jeep […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was found with fatal injuries to the stomach caused by sharp weapon while in the custody of the Moratuwa Police Station. He was arrested on 22 September 2010 and detained in the police station. He was found with fatal injuries in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Ms. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of Prachatai online newspaper, was detained by the immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Samutprakarn province near Bangkok, and transferred to Khon Kaen police station, in northeastern Thailand. She has been charged with violating the Computer Crimes Act BE.2550 (2007) […]