Urgent Appeal Update

[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 […]

Dear friends, The case against Mahesh Ranaweera (12) was finally concluded 17 August 2006 at the Panwila Magistrates Court. Mahesh had been illegally arrested and detained by the Wattwgama police after being  accused for deliberately assaulting and injuring his class mate Harsha Bandara in the school playground in February 2005 while they were playing (See […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Philippine aurhorities. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Philippine authorities are attached below with this appeal. Thank you.] [RE: UA-275-2006: PHILIPPINES: Eight members of a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the 21 union members who were violently dispersed, six of whom were seriously wounded, and were subsequently detained, were released on 18 August 2006 evening, having spent two days in police detention. (Please see our previous appeal for details: UA-273-2006). The union members […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that a torture victim and her family have been threatened by an intelligence officer from the Border Security Force (BSF) subsequent to the AHRC issuing an urgent appeal on the case. The AHRC is again calling for intervention […]

[RE: UA-141-2004: SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily assaulted by the SI of the Horana Police Station without any reason and UP-051-2006: SRI LANKA: Justice continues to evade victim one and a half years after his assault] ———————————————————————- SRI LANKA: Torture; Impunity; Lack of reparation ———————————————————————– Dear friends, The Sri Lankan authorities are failing to prosecute […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its partner in Nepal, Advocacy Forum, about further developments to the case of 33-year old Mr. Teksu Rai, a permanent resident of Mahabharat VDC-8, Dhankuta district and restaurant owner, who was allegedly tortured by members of the Maharajgunj Ward police for refusing to […]

[RE: UA-247-2006: SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by the Wanduramba Police Station requires months of hospitalisation and UP-146-2006: SRI LANKA: Update on torture victim Mr. Premalal] ———————————————————————- SRI LANKA: Torture; Fabrication of charges; Rule of law ———————————————————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) earlier reported on the case of a man who was […]

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of defamation and intimidation involving five teachers by the school authority after they reported to the Presidential Investigation Commission the corrupt management practices at their school’s facilities (See further in detail: UA-114-2005). This updates is about the tree teachers namely […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding an illegal arrest, torture and fabrication of charges against Janaka Perera and Tilan Perera  of Panadura by the Panadura police in June 2002 (See further: Article 2, vol. 1 no. 4, “Case studies of torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka“).  The Special […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that Uztadz Kusain Abedin, a development worker whom the military illegally arrested and detained, was released on August 4 (Please see for details: UA-260-2006). Abedin was released from custody of the Task Force Tugis, headed by Colonel Salvador Calanoy, after the Task Force could […]

[RE: UA-205-2005: INDONESIA: Three men face execution after President rejects clemency; UP-070-2006: INDONESIA: Death sentence must be stayed and new evidence thoroughly investigated; UP-090-2006: INDONESIA: Supreme Court agrees to review Poso 3 case; UP-105-2006: INDONESIA: Supreme Court panel rejects death penalty review even though new evidence may exist] ———————————– UP-157-2006: INDONESIA: Three men in Poso […]

[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. Their fax numbers and postal addresses are attached below with this appeal. […]

[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 Pakistan authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Their fax numbers and postal addresses are attached below with this appeal. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received updated information that two constables of the Border Security Forces (BSF) of Khayertala BOP No. 1 Point were simply dismissed without facing any legal action for the alleged killing of one young man and a teenager (See further: UA-244-2006). Meanwhile, the family of the victims has been […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that trials have begun against several poverty-stricken villagers who were charged with robbery for stealing scrap rubber left uncollected on the ground at a state rubber plantation of Krek, in Pohnea Krek district, Kompong Cham province, Cambodia. The AHRC reported this case earlier […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Mr. A.M. Thilak Adhikari has been acquitted of all charges against him on 11 July 2006. He was falsely charged by the Mahiyangana police after refusing to pay the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of traffic, grocery bill of Rs. 5,300 in December 2004 […]

[RE: FA-06-2005: PHILIPPINES: three people killed and three others wounded by military forces in Matanao, Davao del Sur, Mindanao; UP-46-2005: PHILIPPINES: A call for speedy resolution of a case filed against the military in the killing of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur; UA-72-2005: PHILIPPINES: Prosecutor’s inaction to file murder charges against military […]

[RE: UA-082-2006: PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of 11 persons and the subsequent filing of fabricated charges against them; UP-063-2006: PHILIPPINES: Lawyers for 11 torture victims file motion to withdraw charges against them; UP-067-2006: PHILIPPINES: Torture victims file charges against policemen; UP-092-2006: PHILIPPINES: Plot to kill torture victims in jail; UP-099-2006: PHILIPPINES: Jail authorities’ failing to ensure […]

[RE: UP-129-2006: PHILIPPINES: An appeal for the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Office to act on the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights to file murder charges against the military; UP-130-2006: PHILIPPINES: Court judge delays issuance of arrest warrants to military men charged with murder; UP-137-2006: PHILIPPINES: […]