Urgent Appeal Update

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from its local parter in West Bengal, MASUM, about Mr. Gopen Sharma, who was illegally arrested and is currently detained based on a frivolous charge (See further: UA-045-2007). We were informed that the bail application for Mr. Goepn was again rejected on February 26, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your immediate intervention to ensure the security of torture victim Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband Mr. Atinur Rahrman, who are under severe death threats now. Mr. Atinur Rahrman is also a lawyer in his wife’s case. We were informed that the criminal who […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of 23 year-old Mr. Gareesh Kumar who is from the Hindu minority in Pakistan and was kidnapped on 17 August 2006 (See further: UA-015-2007). We regret to inform you that Mr. Kumar’s body was found dead on the outskirts of Hyderabad […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik (24), whose penis was cut while being tortured by the Market police on 25-26 January 2007 (See further: UA-032-2007). We were informed that both reports of two medical boards, which examined the victim, confirmed that the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to call special attention to the on-line petition for  justice to Mr. Kazuo Ishikawa who was originally sentenced to death by the Urawa District Court for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old school girl in Sayama, Saitama prefecture, Japan in 1963 (refer […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the alleged arbitrary arrest of the NGO leader namely Mr. Shahidul Islam by army personnel in Satkhira district, Bangladesh on 27 January 2007 (See further: UA-037-2007). We were informed that Mr. Shahidul has been falsely implicated in a murder case with the alleged […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that bails for two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman, who were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the army in Khulna district, were granted by Paikgachha Upazilla Magistrate Court on 13 February 2007 (For original urgent appeals, visit: UP-015-2007; UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). The Bail […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on an alleged illegal land grabbing case involving about 250 families that had been forcefully evicted from their village by Senator Ly Yong Phat at Sre Ambel district in Koh Kong province on September 19, 2006 (See: UA-321-2006, UP-212-2006). The AHRC has now learned that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the appeal of eight men over their wrongful and illegal conviction for treason in Burma has been postponed to February 22. Meanwhile, one of the defendants is reported to be sick in prison. In this update we also bring you further information on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman by the army in the Paikgachha Upazilla (sub district) of Khulna district (please see further: UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). The AHRC has learned that the Paikgachha police produced the two businessmen before the Upazilla Magistrate’s Cognizance […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information has received updated information about the case of arbitrary arrests of over 400 political and human rights activists in the end of November 2006 (See further: UA-386-2006). We were informed that 15 activists, who had been arrested during this time, were allegedly sent to different prisons […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we only could include e-mail addresses of a few of the Cambodian authorities in this case. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of another brutal and illegal eviction of 229 families from Number One village, Sangkat Number One, Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia on 18 December 2006. The incident took place when Governor Say Hak allegedly ordered at least 100 military and police officers armed with rifles, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of human rights activists associated with Guria, that the case is dragging on in the court in spite of all the attempts to expedite the proceedings. Guria is a human rights organisation based in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state of […]

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 local administration led by the District Magistrate […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on January 7, 2008 that Akash, a human rights defender as well as journalist, has been facing several allegedly false extortion charges in Rajshahi Bangladesh. Even though a vacation bench of the High Court granted him bail on October 16 on one of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information that two women were severely beaten up by thugs hired by the 7NG company but the police have not started an investigation into their injuries which happened on 16 December 2007 in Dey Krahorm zone, Tonle Bassac commune, Phnom Penh. While two women […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman from his house by the Detective Branch (DB) Police of Khulna district at Paikgachha town on 2 November 2006 (See further: UA-367-2006).  According to the information we have received, on 16 November 2006 an […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

[RE: UA-72-2005: PHILIPPINES: Prosecutor’s inaction to file murder charges against military officers who killed two people; UP-130-2006: PHILIPPINES: Court judge delays issuance of arrest warrants to military men charged with murder; UP-211-2006: PHILIPPINES: Replacement of a prosecutor required; complaint filed against a judge for grave abuse, violation of code of conduct] ————————————- PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; […]