Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) based in Uttar Pradesh, India, regarding the police raid of the house of a human rights activist and poor peasants. It is alleged that the peasants have been falsely implicated in criminal […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police of Metro Police Range (MPR) of Hanumandhoka, Kathmandu. According to the information received, both of them were subjected to torture by the investigating […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was illegally arrested by officers of Akmeemana police on 16 March 2007, he was accused of involvement in a theft case. During detention, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to the present. The victim was allegedly arrested by the police members of District Police Office (DPO), Kalikot three times on the charge of being suspect […]

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 […]