Urgent Appeal Update

SRI LANKA: arbitrary arrest and detention; torture; abuse of police power; collapse of the rule of law; forced disappearances —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your immediate intervention into the alleged arbitrary detention of a 49 year-old man, Weligoda Ananda in the Welikada Magazine prison in Sri Lanka. It […]

RE: UP-196-2006: BANGLADESH: Government’s failure to act has put life of attempted rape victim into great danger; UP-187-2006: BANGLADESH: Repeated police threats to the victim of an attempted rape; UA-296-2006: BANGLADESH: A girl sexually harassed and boy arbitrarily arrested, tortured and detained by the Senhati Camp police in Khulna] ———————————– BANGLADESH: Attempted rape; police intimidation […]

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of many of the Burmese authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those […]

[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 Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below […]

[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 Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below […]

[RE: UA-164-2004: INDONESIA: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: INDONESIA: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end further inquiries; UP-47-2005: INDONESIA: State intelligence officers delay Munir investigation; UP-72-2005: INDONESIA: Mandate of fact-finding team into Munir’s murder should be extended and made more effective; UP-83-2005: […]

[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 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to provide immediate protection to a witness of a custodial death case, who is receiving death threats in Sri Lanka. He is the key eye witness of the custodial death of Mr. Hettiarachchige Abeysiri, 52, who was tortured to death by […]

[RE: UA-216-2005: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: PHILIPPINES: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPPINES: Possible irregularities in police investigation; survivor details brutal killings of peasants; UP-053-2006: PHILIPPINES: Commission on Human Rights (CHR) set to file charges against soldiers allegedly involved in killing peasants in […]

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; negligence of duty; threat; intimidation; extortion; corruption; abuse of power; collapse of rule of law ————————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to update you about a case involving a rape victim who is facing continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to the deliberate inaction of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from Advocacy Forum, the local human rights group in Nepal, that Des Raj Chauhan had been handed over to the security forces of India on 1 November 2006 and is currently being detained in Baharaich Jail of India. Des Raj Chauhan had been […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a number of sources on the jailing of two human rights defenders in Burma who were arrested with signatures as part of a petition to have the government release political prisoners (UA-358-2006). The two men, Ko Win Ko and Phyoe Zaw Latt, […]

[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 many of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below with […]

INDONESIA: Torture; failure of delivering legal redress to torture victims; impunity; un-rule of law ——————————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent developments in the criminal case filed by Mr. Kurniawan, following his unwarranted arrest and subsequent brutal torture by the police in Bekasi province on 8 […]

[RE: UA-219-2005: PHILIPPINES: Threat against an activist priest; bullets offered after a mass in Bulacan, Luzon] ————————————- PHILIPPINES: Surveillance and intimidation of a human rights defender; early warning of possible extrajudicial killing or forced disappearance; inadequate government action; rule of law ————————————- Dear friends, Since the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued its first urgent […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learn that a torture victim was allegedly arrested by Kompong Cham provincial police officers in front of the Kompong Cham provincial court on 27 November 2006, while attempting to file a case against two torture perpetrators. We strongly condemn this arbitrarily arrest and detention of the […]

PHILIPPINES: violence against activist; impartial and independent investigation; collapse of rule of law ———————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a church leader in Ilocos Sur was again intimidated by unidentified men on 11 November 2006, while he was hospitalized to receive treatment for his injuries in an […]

PHILIPPINES: violence against villagers seeking land reform; forced displacement; harassment and intimidation; violation of right to land; un-rule of law ————————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a leader of a group of farmers seeking land reform was wounded in a shooting at 6pm on 30 October 2006. […]

CAMBODIA: Corruption; collapse of the rule of law; illegal deprivation of the land; illegal destruction of property ————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that on 12 November 2006, ruling party (CPP) senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat signed an agreement that guarantees villagers the rights to live on their land […]

[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 Philippine authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Philippine authorities are […]