Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest and assault of a man by the Ratnapura police. According to the information we have received from our local partner organization in Sri Lanka, he has been arrested twice on fabricated charges including this time and been harassed by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that a number of students of the University of Jaffna have been murdered, arbitrarily arrested and disappeared since August 2006. Due to the security situation some classes had been cancelled until 19 February 2007. It has been allegedly reported that military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No. 6 of the Char Fashion Municipality in Bhola district, allegedly caused by a brutal assault by naval officers on 20 February 2007. Mr. Dulal was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the governmental authorities have started investigations regarding the case of the alleged torture of three men by the Army in Paikgachha, Khulna district, in which one person died (for further details please see: UA-029-2007). In the updated information, we have learned that an Assistant […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the government authorities have started an investigation into the case of two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman, who were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the army in Khulna district (For original urgent appeals, see: UP-019-2007; UP-015-2007; UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). Over a two day […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling your attention to the following list of the people who have been allegedly killed, arrested and abducted since January 2006 in Sri Lanka. We have received the information from reliable source of Sri Lanka, however the identity of this source cannot be revealed for security […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received credible information through its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, India that one of their activists Mr. Ram Prasad Bharati on his way from Sonbadra to Varanasi was taken into illegal custody by the local police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt from a number of sources that U Aung Pe, the teacher who was jailed in Burma in 2005 for “illegal tuition”, has gone on hunger strike and is gravely ill. According to visitors to the central Insein Prison, where Aung Pe is being held, he […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that as we worried, the police now allegedly fabricated charges against two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Palash, Principal Programme Coordinator of the PROSHIKA, and Mr. Md. Aminul Islam, Director of the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB) soon after the High Court Bench […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two prominent NGO leaders: Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Palash, Principal Programme Coordinator of the PROSHIKA, and Mr. Md. Aminul Islam, Director of the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), a forum of around 1150 NGOs […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press statement by Professor Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Forwarded Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur PHILIPPINES: Press Statement by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged arbitrary arrest, illegal detention and brutal torture of seven rag pickers by the Baranagar police station in West Bengal on 22 December 2006 and 29 January 2007. The victims also allege that the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the alleged arbitrary arrest of the NGO leader namely Mr. Shahidul Islam by army personnel in Satkhira district, Bangladesh on 27 January 2007 (See further: UA-037-2007). We were informed that Mr. Shahidul has been falsely implicated in a murder case with the alleged […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that bails for two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman, who were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the army in Khulna district, were granted by Paikgachha Upazilla Magistrate Court on 13 February 2007 (For original urgent appeals, visit: UP-015-2007; UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). The Bail […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of an alleged unprovoked attack by the Sri Lankan Navy on two groups of six fishermen from Negombo on January 27 and again on 28 January 2007 respectively.  The fishermen were allegedly arrested, assaulted and had one of their boats destroyed.  The navy has also […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman by the army in the Paikgachha Upazilla (sub district) of Khulna district (please see further: UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). The AHRC has learned that the Paikgachha police produced the two businessmen before the Upazilla Magistrate’s Cognizance […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of an NGO leader named Mr. Shahidul Islam by the Army in Tala upazilla (sub district) of Satkhira district, Bangladesh on 27 January 2007. The victim was arbitrarily arrested from one of his organization’s training centres, then […]

Indonesia signed the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment on the 23 October 1985 and ratified it on the 28 October I 998 by the Law No. 5/1998. Since its ratification, there have been numerous calls by the CAT Committee- for instance in its “Concluding Observations: Indonesia” (01/11/2002. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further detailed documentation on the cases against one of the eight men appealing their conviction for treason in Burma (UA-017-2007). The accused, Sai Nyunt Lwin, was the general secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, a registered political party. However, he was sentenced to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Md. Aminul Islam Shahin was tortured by the police personnel from the Gournadi police station in the Barisal district on 9 November 2007. The police neither identified themselves nor gave any reason for breaking and entering Shahin’s home and subsequently torturing him […]