Urgent Appeal Update

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that Ms. Noorjan Khatun, a victim of torture in Morang district, is constantly being intimidated and threatened by police officers who have previously tortured her, as well as by other police officers.  Disturbingly, she is being pressured to withdraw her […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that a national police commissioner allegedly ordered the punishment of Pring Pov as Pring refused to follow an order to cede his land. To date no investigation into several violations of criminal procedure code against him has been reported. The police allegedly illegally […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn that a labour leader who survived an earlier attempt on his life in April 2006 was shot dead this morning, March 10. Gerardo Cristobal (a.k.a. Gerry) was driving his vehicle when armed men riding in another vehicle open fired at him soon after […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three senior police officers, who are responsible for the brutal assault of a policeman, were simply transferred to another police post without facing any departmental or legal action. Meanwhile, in its response regarding the case, the Police Human Rights Cell failed to provide […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned today (21 February) that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) will maintain its independence. We appreciate your various efforts to oppose this very serious threat. UPDATE INFORMATION: As earlier reported, the Presidential Transition Committee (PTC) proposed a recommendation to restructure government organisations to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that since our appeal on the case of a child soldier who was jailed in 2005 (AHRC-UAC-016-2008) a number of persons involved in the case have been threatened by local authorities. His aunt, who made the complaint, is under watch, and two people […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) who were charged with a false case on 9 December 2007. The AHRC has been informed that the Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that a farmer in Burma who was jailed for complaining that his crops were destroyed due to the negligence of local officials has been released after the Supreme Court upheld his appeal. As reported in our original appeal (UA-155-2006), U Tin Nyein […]

Dear friends, As the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported that several residents in Dey Krohorm were injured or are facing criminal lawsuits in order to stop attempts by them to prevent their forcible eviction by a company in connivance with the authorities (UA-271-2007 and UAU-002-2008), yet another woman was reported to have been injured […]

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported that over several years, violence, blockades and lawsuits have been used in successive attempts to evict hundreds of families in Dey Kraham zone of Phnom Penh in favour of the 7NG company (see AHRC-UAU-052-2008, AHRC-UAU-006-2008, AHRC-UAU-002-2008, UA-271-2007).  These attempts have so far failed as your continued intervention has […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that another colleague of the late Bishop Alberto Ramento of the Philippine Independent Church (PIC), a prominent human rights defender murdered in October 2006, has been receiving renewed threats to his life over his mobile phone. The sender of the SMS also claims they […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been confirmed that three activists of a union who had been detained were finally deported from South Korea in the early morning of 13 December 2007. It is reported that the immigration officers falsely informed their legal representatives that they did not have any plans to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a priest, Rev. Eleuterio J. Revollido, whom we reported to have been facing continuing threats, has once again been experiencing surveillance. In the testimony he had written, Rev. Eleuterio has said that on several occasions from November 29 to December 7 unknown […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to provide you the update regarding the case of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). The AHRC has reported on 4 December regarding the death threats faced by the PVCHR activists and Dr. Lenin. The PVCHR has informed the AHRC […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that further list of extrajudicial killings and disappearances for the month of November 2007 have been reported in Sri Lanka. Due to the continuing failure to prosecute the alleged perpetrators and the absence of proper mechanisms for the affected family members to seek […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the brutal attack by armed carders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] against the villagers in Nandigram. The three cases narrated below shows the extent to which the CPI-M […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that charges have been filed against the policemen involved in violently dispersing a group of public school teachers holding a peaceful demonstration in Manila. They were charged with criminal offenses by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Office of the Prosecutor in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the two men illegally arrested and detained by soldiers and paramilitary group have already been released in separate occasions. The victims, Ruel Munasque and Luicito Bustamante, were freed from soldier’s custody after the court granted the petition by their relatives’ for judicial protection. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the continuing threats of social workers by the Army Special Forces in Papua since September 2007 to get location of Father Johanes Djonga working for human rights. The AHRC has earlier raised the alarm about the army’s threats against the Father Djonga […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that hundreds of detainees in a “vocational training” camps have been released and returned home on 18 November 2007 after the Fourth Army chief, Lt-Gen Viroj Buacharoon backed down and reversed a six-month ban prohibiting them from entering for southern provinces (UP-143-2007). This is […]