Administration of justice

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a girl (11) of Yaku Arun village development committee (VDC) 5 in Bhojpur District was raped in December 2016. While cooking a meal at home, her neighbor Durga Bahadur Shrestha (20) took advantage of the situation and sexually assaulted her. During the assault, […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Yogarasa Dinesh (24) of Nelliady, Point Pedro in Jaffna District. Two police officers attached to the Point Pedro Police Station opened fire, point blank, on Dinesh sitting in the front seat of his lorry on the road from Manalkadu to Point Pedro. The […]

India’s apex court passed a historic judgment on July14, reiterating the primacy of rule of law and that there can be no justification to bypass it. In the case of Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association (EEVFAM) & Anr. Vs. UOI & Ors. etc, the Supreme Court ordered that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) set […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Kariyawasam Wickramarachchilage Milan Saman Wickramasinghe (21) permanent resident of Kantale Police Division. He was severely tortured by two Police Officers attached to the Kantale Police Station and two other assailants who allegedly participated in the torture following the instructions of the Police. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the abduction of a minor from the Bhutto family home. Previously, two brothers from this family were abducted, disappeared and extra-judicially killed. A video of their sister went viral on social and electronic media. She was narrating how persons from military intelligence […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Makassar Legal Aid (LBH Makassar) regarding the criminal action against 13 farmers in Bulu Ballea, Pattapang village, Tinggimoncong sub-district, Gowa regent, South Sulawesi province. The farmers are being accused of illegally occupying land by the Social Forestry and Environmental Partnerships (PSKL), despite it […]

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances and Odhikar, on the Day of International Criminal Justice Hong Kong/Dhaka/Manila; 17 July 2017: One of the three main goals of Bangladesh’s War of Independence was ‘social justice’ coupled with ‘equality’, and ‘human dignity’. The word ‘justice’ connotes ‘just behavior […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats aimed at the human rights activist, Mr. Sudesh Nandimal Silva who is fighting for the rights of the victims of the Welikada Prison Assassinations, which took placed on 9th and 10th of November 2012. Sudesh is a member of the Association […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from its partner organization in Kerala, Nervazhi, regarding the torture and violence meted out to a poor lottery ticket seller by the Thrissur police on a false charge. CASE NARRATIVE: Sajeevan is a lottery seller and his wife goes for domestic work. On […]

Avinash Pandey Looking at the pattern of tomato pricing in India, year after year, could lead one to believe that tomatoes are pricing themselves, evilly conspiring against the farmers producing them and the consumers buying them, helping only the intermediaries in the process. As of now, tomatoes are being sold for more than Rs. 80 […]

On 12 June 2017, Pakistan’s print and electronic media was abuzz with the murder of a teenager serving a politically influential family in Lahore. Master Akther was reportedly tortured to death by his employer Fauzia, who is the daughter of provincial legislator Ms. Shah Jahan, belonging to the ruling party, PML-N. According to Lahore’s Akbari […]

China has lost yesterday one of its great sons, Nobel Laurate Mr. Liu Xiaobo. Indeed, Liu Xiaobo was a criminal for the Chinese administration. They had sentenced him to undergo a prison term of 11 years, after being convicted by what is passed off as ‘judicial process’ in China. The crime for which Liu Xiaobo […]

By Basil Fernando “A large crowd of people gather here every day,” a social worker told me, pointing to a two-storey building that is now a toddy shop. There was a banner with a familiar advertisement: Ra Bomu – lets drink toddy. People were going to and from the building. Pointing to the property annexed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), received information regarding the death of a patient at the Kuliyapitiya District Base Hospital. Mrs. Uragoda Appuhamilage Somawathi told the doctors and nurses at the hospital that she was allergic to antibiotics, but she was still given an antibiotic injection, which lead to her death on June […]

Read Letter HERE We refer to the statement we issued yesterday “How some lawyers trivialise legal proceedings”. We produce below Fr Nandana’s letter to the relevant lawyer demanding that the lawyer should publicly withdraw this statement. 12th July 2017 Mr. Nalin Ladduwahetty, President’s Counsel, Attorney-at-Law, No : 33, Royal Range, Dolalanda Watte, Kottawa Road, Thalawatugoda. Dear […]

An article from The Mint forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The death of prisoner Manjula Shetye in Byculla jail last month reminds one of the 1983 Mulla committee report on prison reforms. More than three decades old, words from the report may not ring truer than now: “Do they continue to be citizens of the country […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), a human rights organization in East Kalimantan province, about a teenager drowning in a mining hole left by the Gunung Bayan Pratama Coal Company. Reluctant to investigate the case, the local police have argued that the death falls within […]

Sanjeewa Weerawickrama [1] Torture is an act, a form of punishment, a horrible experience, causing severe physical pain and mental suffering. It uses force to make a person confess to a crime he did not do. [2]. A person has the fundamental right not to be tortured. Freedom from torture is covered in the next two examples […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of the missing poet and activist Farhad Mazhar, who has been found. His disappearance and subsequent rescue has thrown up more questions than answers as our update will show. The AHRC had earlier issued an Urgent Appeal urging the relevant […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the gang rape of a constable’s daughter by influential persons. The district police of Jacobabad, Sindh province, are trying to protect the perpetrators. They have tampered with evidence and are making it difficult for the victim’s family to seek justice. At the same […]