Administration of justice

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Right Commission (AHRC) continues to receive reports of violence perpetrated by police officers against peaceful demonstrators. Most recently police officers attacked a demonstration being held by members of the motorcycle taxi community (known as Ojeg) and the Bau–Bau Legal Aid Institute in Bau–Bau City, injuring six protestors. Though an internal […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the Paikgachha police have arrested Mr. Muzibur Rahman, a man who was previously arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the army in Khulna district, and held incommunicado The whereabouts of Mr. Muzibur are unknown. His relatives are afraid that hey may again […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that an injured man was severely and randomly beaten by a police officer at Negombo Police Station and then denied medical treatment for more than 24 hours, causing possible permanent nerve damage. He now faces fabricated charges for a robbery. No legal or disciplinary action […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that no one has been held accountable for the shooting of indigenous Papuan Mr. Opinus Tabuni over a year ago during an operation by armed forces, and no progress has been seen in the investigation. Mr. Tabuni was shot dead in Wamena during a celebration […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police in Nakatajhij, Dhanusa, have been negligent in investigating the double rape and murder of an eleven-year-old Dalit girl. Though there is strong evidence against two non-Dalit youths, the victim’s family reports resistance from police in filing and investigating the case, which has […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that an indigenous Papuan was illegally arrested, detained and tortured in July after he was taken into custody by the airport security unit of the police in Wamena town. During his assault he was ordered to confess to the killing of five Javanese Indonesians, however […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a young man, fatally injured, has gone missing in Sargodha while being transferred between hospitals by police. The man and his father were facing false charges for a highway theft after they tried to help the victims; his resulting death would have shed light […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two anti-corruption activists have been accused of defamation by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), after their group publicly pointed out a multi-trillion rupiah gap in the AGO’s annual budget and called for an investigation. The case raises questions about the use of the […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that senior police officials are preventing an investigation into the alleged gang rapes of female students by a group of teachers. The family of one victim is being pressured to settle outside legal channels in a feudal jirga court, despite directions from the Chief […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned that Sargodha city police have made no moves to arrest the men accused of gang raping a 16-year-old girl, and are instead supporting an illegal out of court settlement. A session judge has granted the men interim bail to preempt their arrest with little consideration for […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Paikgachha police have created a fake case against six men; all of whom were trying to take a case against a local con man. Two were demanding the refund of police bribe money. The events suggest that officers are supporting a man who has […]

Dear friends, While the government of Burma was releasing a few wrongly detained persons from its jails in September, authorities were arresting and prosecuting more. In this appeal the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) brings you the details of the case against three persons who have been illegally detained for allegedly receiving money from a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that three protestors, whom the police had brutally assaulted, arbitrarily arrested and tortured while in custody in May 2009, had been convicted for nine months over false charges of attacks and violence. The protestors were together with several villagers holding a peaceful demonstration […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the lack of transparency by the Supreme Court (SC) in hearing the petition of the Abadilla Five. The petition, which sought to declare as null and void their conviction for murder, suffered further delay due to the lack of transparency and arbitrary […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the life of a journalist who has been twice arrested, tortured and remanded on tenuous charges, is in danger. Senake Ekanayake has complained to the National Human Rights Commission, the National Police Commission, the President and the Inspector General of Police about his illegal […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the relief of a 75-year-old man who was illegally chained in a room for almost 34 years by relatives, with the knowledge of local police. Though the man was released under the orders of the Supreme Court and declared mentally sound, we […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that human rights activists in South Korea will hold a people’s tribunal on October 18, 2009 regarding the deaths of five men. The five protested against a forced eviction and burned to death during an agressive dispersal operation by the police. No officers have so […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to report that various police units have squabbled over the custody of a rebel in front of a judge in open court and violated various other procedures, suggesting an interest in securing a bounty and other rewards. Police deceived the rebel’s indigenous village elders by falsely […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is distressed to learn that human rights defender and freelance journalist Jiten Yumnam has been tortured by police in custody. We have also obtained court documents which show that he and the seven other accused were arrested on mere suspicion and unsubstantiated allegations. The documents stand as […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to let you know that a number of human rights defenders on whose behalf we have campaigned in recent years have been released from imprisonment in Burma, as well as some of those who were involved in the September 2007 protests.  DETAINEES RELEASED:  The AHRC […]