Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the illegal arrest and detention of Mr. Santhosh Patel, a staff member of PVCHR, on 10 May 2006. Mr. Santhosh was meeting the District Magistrate Mr. Rajiv Agarwal to lodge a complaint […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that a farmer in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma has been jailed after lodging a complaint that his crops were destroyed due to the negligence of local officials. Although he was supported in his allegations by […]

Dear friends, The head of the army in Thailand is reported as having admitted that the security forces in the south of the country are using “blacklists” to hunt down alleged insurgents in the south. He has also admitted that there are names of persons on the lists who are not genuine suspects. The Asian […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has heard reports through shortwave radio broadcasts and other sources that police in at least two townships of Rangoon are arbitrarily arresting and detaining people at night, including children–then sometimes releasing them after demanding money–since bombs exploded in the city on April 20. According to the information […]

Dear friends,   Please find a letter written to the international community by a group of Nepali activists being detained in Duwakot Armed Police barracks, criticising the response to King Gyanendra’s public address made on Friday April 21, 2006.   Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong   — To the Ambassadors Of the European Union […]

INDONESIA: Attempted murder; failure to properly investigate case; police inaction; absence of witness and victim’s protection; collapse of rule of law ———————————————— Dear friends, In November 2005, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported on the shooting of two senior high school students in Jl. Gatot Subroto, Kasintuwu, Poso Kota, Central of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Two […]

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu] ————————————— UP-079-2006: NEPAL: Demonstrations continue in the face of further arrests and violence NEPAL: Arbitrary arrest and detention; freedom of assembly; right to peaceful protest; collapse of rule of law […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two human rights activists named Jang Do-jeong and Shin Yong-gwan are facing trial while about 10 protesters were injured in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi province, South Korea, when they tried to stop the police cutting off waterways leading to rice fields on 7 April 2006. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the escalating violence that is occurring in Nepal and the government’s decision to impose a curfew on the capital, Kathmandu, for the third consecutive day, as well as other areas, in an attempt to try to halt widespread protests. As reported in […]

Dear friends, On 12 March 2006, at about 6pm, an argument ensued between Sameera Harischandra and friends and four persons who were posing as ‘cattle traders’. After some time the four persons alighted from their vehicle – a white truck bearing the license plate 47-3692 – and walked up to Sameera and brutally assaulted him. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with information regarding police in Nepal having detained more than 100 people for planning to defy a ban on public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu. The arrests come a day ahead of a planned anti-monarchy protest and four-day general strike by a seven-party opposition alliance. Though […]

Dear friends, In the past week there has been further information coming through many channels on the murder of Ko Thet Naing Oo in a Rangoon market on March 17 by government officers (UA-097-2006). This update by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) covers the following: further details on the killing and funeral of Thet […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that the appeal of two villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma against being jailed after reporting the corruption of local authorities was thrown out of court. Meanwhile, the trial of a number of persons who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the illegal arrest and detention of a man by the Gokarella police, despite the latter being informed that the man they had arrested was not the person they were after. Mr. Sunil Premathilake was confronted by the police who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from a reliable source regarding the continued illegal detention of a labour leader, Crispin Beltran (73), following his arrest on 25 February 2006. Beltran was arrested by police authorities allegedly led by Senior Inspector Rene Corpuz of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Myint Moe Media Group (Thailand) that next Monday, February 20, the case of jailed tuition teacher U Aung Pe is to go to the Supreme Court of Burma. Although Aung Pe was jailed under on charges of illegal tuition, in fact he […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) unconstitutional and ordered it to be scrapped immediately. This has paved the way for the release of ousted Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who had […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the arbitrary detention of prisoners in Krishnanagar jail. It is alleged that Mr. Israfil Mondal, Mr. Sabyasachi Goswami, Mr. Mantu Banerjee, Mr. Jalai Sk and Mr. Asok Sarkar have been arbitrarily detained at Krishnanager jail […]

The Government of Bangladesh has conducted a political crackdown of massive proportions, arresting over 10’000 persons between February 2nd and 5th, 2006. The police have randomly an arbitrarily arrested large numbers of persons, with the poor being targeted in particular. The arrests without warrants are being conducted through abusive application of Section 86 of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have arrested at least 10,000 common citizens in the space of only three days beginning on 2 February 2006. The arrested people, who are mostly low-income earners, were detained in different police stations and prisons across the nation. The people are […]