Urgent Appeal Update

NEW REPORT: Special Report: The Philippines’ hollow human rights system http://www.article2.org/pdf/v11n0203.pdf Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concern by yet another filing of fabricated charges on two urban poor leaders and 30 others. The victims, who are known leaders helping urban poor in Metro Manila from forcible eviction, have been laid […]

NEW REPORT: Special Report: The Philippines’ hollow human rights system http://www.article2.org/pdf/v11n0203.pdf Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the trial of Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, an indigenous activist who is prosecuted on evidence of forced confession, would now be heard in Manila. Temogen would be moved from a prison in Davao […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that an indigenous villager, one of the claimants of a disputed ancestral land whom the police had earlier suspected of being a rebel who was wounded in a fight, has already been cleared. The police investigation which they conducted after an appeal […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding illegal sand mining in the Meghna River adjacent to the Mayadip and Nunertek islands. There has been an investigation conducted by the government of Bangladesh, following intervention by the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing of the United Nation, which itself followed the […]

Dear friends, Further to our earlier appeal about the plot to kill human rights defender Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges you to write to the Supreme Court of the Philippines requesting that they urgently act on Tulawie’s petition to reconsider its decision to transfer him from Davao City jail to […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of a plot to kill a human rights activist, Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, who is being prosecuted on fabricated charges inside the jail should he be transferred from Davao City to Manila. This plot is serious because the court has already postponed the scheduled hearing […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a series of human rights violation cases in Chashma Barrage, Mianwali district, Punjab Province. In December 2011 a fisherfolk activist and human rights defender was attacked and killed by land grabbers. Three persons were injured in the attack and they have not been […]

[RE: AHRC-UAC-075-2011: BANGLADESH: Rapid Action Battalion shoots innocent college student, causing permanent disability, and now threatens sympathizers with extra-judicial killing Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding repeated attempts by the state machinery to brand a college student named Limon Hossain as a criminal, after he was shot point-blank and […]

Dear friends, On 30 July 2012 a court in Bangkok convicted five police officers of murder for the extrajudicial killing of Kiettisak Thitboonkrong during the “war on drugs” in 2004. The success of the case was due in large part to the determination of the family and willingness of eyewitnesses to testify against the police. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an update from MASUM regarding the case of Krishna Mondal. MASUM and the AHRC had reported earlier (AHRC-UAC-096-2012) that the Border Security Force (BSF), in January 2012 tortured Krishna, against which MASUM helped Krishna to file a complaint at the local police station. MASUM has […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that nearly six months after the arrest and detention of Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, a human rights activist laid with fabricated murder charges, the court has not commence the trial. The court suspended the proceedings due to its own failure to conclude the victim’s petition […]

Dear friends, Yesterday, it was reported by the official state-run media that 22 political prisoners have been released under the President’s amnesty. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding on the case of bombing in Pegu town (UAU-023-2012), of which eight of the accused victims were released. Additionally, Than Zaw (UAC-227-2011), […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the passing down of long jail sentences on 11 people who were falsely accused in connection with a bombing in Pegu town during 2010. The innocent persons were brought to a special interrogation centre where they were tortured to confess and charged under […]

[RE: AHRC-FPR-026-2012: THAILAND: Forwarded appeal — Call for observers–torture victim sued by Pol. Gen. Bhanupong Singhara for a complaint made in good faith] Dear friends, On 25 June 2012, at 9 am, the second of two pre-trial hearings in the case of Mr. Suderueman Maleh will take place at the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the verdict delivered by Muaro Sijunjung District Court in the case of Alexander Aan who resides in Padang and was charged with religious blasphemy, atheism propagation and dissemination of religious hostility. On 14 June 2012, the Court found Alexander Aan guilty of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information concerning the corruption of a driver of ‘G’ Branch of ‘E’ Company of 152 Battalion of the BSF who had been bribed to permit smuggling and who, when in danger of being exposed, turned on the victim, Mr Abdul Karim Molla, and brutally […]

Dear friends, Rizana Nafeek of Muthur, Trincomalee in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka left to Saudi Arabia as a domestic helper when she was 17 years old. She became a victim of a recruitment agent who altered her date of birth in her passport, making her as 23-years old and was sent to Saudi […]

[อ้างถึง: AHRC-UAU-017-2012 ประเทศไทย: ศาลมีกำหนดอ่านคำพิพากษาสำคัญเกี่ยวกับเสรีภาพในการแสดงออกในคดีของ น.ส.จีรนุช เปรมชัยพร – ขอให้มีผู้มาสังเกตการณ์คดีจำนวนมาก AHRC-STM-099-2012: ประเทศไทย: ความกังวลต่อความล่าช้าในการอ่านคำพิพากษาคดีอาญาต่อนักรณรงค์ด้านเสรีภาพสื่อ] ——————————————————————— ประเทศไทย: คำพิพากษาที่สำคัญอย่างยิ่งในคดีที่เกี่ยวกับเสรีภาพในการแสดงออก ประเด็น: เสรีภาพในการแสดงออก อิสรภาพทางอินเตอร์เน็ต ผู้ต่อสู้เพื่อปกป้องสิทธิมนุษยชน ——————————————————————— เรียน กัลยาณมิตร เมื่อวันที่ 30 พฤษภาคม 2555 ศาลอาญา กรุงเทพฯ ได้อ่านคำพิพากษาคดีหมายเลขดำที่ 1667/2553 โดย น.ส.จีรนุช เปรมชัยพร ถูกกล่าวหาว่า กระทำความผิดต่อพระราชบัญญัติว่าด้วยการกระทำผิดเกี่ยวกับคอมพิวเตอร์ พ.ศ.2550 น.ส.จีรนุช อายุ 44 ปี เป็นเว็บมาสเตอร์ เว็บไซต์ประชาไท สำนักข่าวอิสระทางอินเตอร์เน็ต ซึ่งทำหน้าที่เป็นเวทีแลกเปลี่ยนข่าวสารที่สำคัญ รวมทั้งการแลกเปลี่ยนความเห็นและการถกเถียงประเด็นต่าง ๆ ในช่วงกว่าเจ็ดปีที่ผ่านมาในประเทศไทย ข้อกล่าวหาต่อเธอเกิดขึ้นเนื่องจาก การที่เธอถูกกล่าวหาว่า ไม่สามารถลบข้อความที่หมิ่นต่อสถาบันพระมหากษัตริย์ ออกจากเว็บบอร์ดประชาไทได้เร็วเพียงพอ ศาลมีคำพิพากษาว่า น.ส.จีรนุชมีความผิด หนึ่งกระทง จากสิบกระทงตามข้อกล่าวหา และตัดสินจำคุกเป็นเวลาหนึ่งปี และปรับ 30,000 […]

Dear friends, On 30 May 2012, the Criminal Court read its verdict in the case in Black Case No. 1667/2553, in which Chiranuch Premchaiporn was charged with ten alleged violations of the 2007 Computer Crimes Act (CCA). Chiranuch is the 44-year-old webmaster of Prachatai, an independent online news site, which has served as an important […]

Dear friends, On 30 May 2012, at 10 am in the Criminal Court in Bangkok, the verdict in the case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, charged with ten counts of allegedly violating the 2007 Computer Crimes Act in Black Case No. 1667/2553, will be read. The reading, which had been scheduled for one month ago, was unexpectedly […]