Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man and his appearance before a Magistrates Court on fabricated charges, following his lodging a complaint against a criminal who has alleged connections with police personnel involved in this case. Mr H. A. Chaminda was detained […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, of the illegal detention of Mr. Ashok Gupta by the Serampore police, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India. Although the Serampore police had an arrest warrant for Mr. Gupta, based on a complaint of assault […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to you to report further illegal arrests and the forced disappearance of four persons in Parbat District.  According to the information we have received, Tulsi Giri (62), Baburam Parajuli, and Hariratna Puri (57), who reside in Tilahar Village Development Committee (VDC)-8 in Parbat District, were illegally […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that Mr Jeewan Shrestha, who we have reported on in the past (UA-159-2004), has been re-arrested for the third time by security forces, as punishment for his informing human rights organisations of the situation he is in. According to the latest information we […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand about the illegal jailing of a villager in Burma in relation to a farmers’ petition submitted to the authorities opposing the forced production of paddy. The villager, Ko Sein Win, was summarily sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another two cases of released detainees having been re-arrested in spite of court orders, which took place in Banke District. The whereabouts of both victims remain unknown.  In the first case, the victim is a 16-year-old boy named Jhurri Teli.  The Appellate Court in Nepalgunj issued his release […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by a new report from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization, of a person named Jeewan Sharestha being detained and re-arrested by the Nepalese security forces upon his immediate release by the Supreme Court.  According to the information we have received, Jeewan […]

The latest mass killing in the south of Thailand is a direct consequence of the intentional and dramatic weakening of controls over the police and armed forces there in the last two years. Despite alarms being raised from numerous quarters, the government of Thailand has blatantly ignored the signs of impending disaster. Not only the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that political activist Mohamed Yoosuf was illegally arrested by the police in Maldives on 13 August 2004. Mr. Mohamed Yoosuf was put in solitary confinement at the Dhoonidhoo Detention Facility after seven days of his arrest and he has now been there for 53 […]

Dear friends, ———————————–<BREAKIING NEWS>———————– Just as the following urgent appeal was being issued, and after the issue of the AHRC statement (AS-37-2004: INDIA: Release illegally detained human rights defenders at once), the AHRC received the news that Mr. Henri Tiphagne and his colleagues were released from detention on a preventive detention order under section 151 […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) demands the immediate release from police detention of a group of human rights defenders in Tamil Nadu, India, who have been detained without charge since this morning.   The group, headed by Mr. Henri Tiphagne, director of People’s Watch–Tamil Nadu, was detained while engaged in a routine training programme […]

Dear friends, Three separate cases of illegal arrest and detention have come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Bharat Poudel, 25 and Dil Bhadur Baniya, 19 were both arrested by plain clothed security personnel on 16 September 2004 in Kaski District, Nepal, while secondary school student Prahalad Waiba was taken away […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the continuous attempt by the security forces to weaken the judiciary by ignoring court orders. Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal, reported to the AHRC about two cases of re-arrest of individuals immediately after they were released by the security […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Heeralu Mohottalalage Punchi Banda (39) was illegally arrested and tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Dhammika Bandara of Samanalaweva Police Post in Balangoda on 26 August 2004. Due to brutal torture, the victim still suffers from severe pain on his […]

Dear friends, The AHRC has received information that the life of Mr. Man Bahadru Budhamagar (22) is in great danger. On 16 September 2004 Mr. Man Bahadru Budhamagar was illegally arrested by army personnel from the Majaha Gaon Army Barrack Mahendra Nagar, Kanchanpur District, merely because he informed his case to human rights groups. On […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that A G Ravindra (26) was assaulted and illegally detained again on 23 July 2004 by the Katupota police for making a complaint against them regarding his previous torture and arrest (see UA-63-2004). The police also filed false charges against him in court, for which […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organization in Bangladesh that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials arbitrarily tortured and arrested Sha Newaz Tito, Munir Hossain Talukdar and Ziaul Alam Dipu in the Agrabad area of Chittagong, Bangladesh on 4 August 2004. The brutal torture led to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal, that a 30-year-old man named Upendra Timilsena was released from Mahabir Guan Himalaya Barrack, Chauni Kathmandu in the afternoon of 28 July 2004. He was illegally detained at the army barrack even though […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the arrest, detention and torture of Wilfredo Damalerio and James Francis Defiesta, that took place on 27 June 2004 at about 9:00 am in Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Mipangi, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley, Mindanao, Philippines. On allegation of being members of the New Peoples Army, soldiers […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the four people who were re-arrested by the security force from the courtyard of the Morang District Court on 14 July 2004 have been found. According to the updated information, the four persons namely, Yek Raj Basnet, Khagendra Sambahamfe, Ram Bahadur Ingaram and […]