Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is seeking your urgent intervention regarding torture victim, J.V. Saman Priyankara, who was arrested at his house by ten police officers on 7 July 2004. Due to the brutal assault by the police officers, Priyankara seems to have partially lost his hearing. Although higher authorities in the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal detention of Terrance Fernando from 21 February to 25 June 2004 at the Kaduruwela Police Station in Polonnaruwa. He was arrested without charge, tortured and detained for four months. After his release in June, Fernando was told that the crime he […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two arbitrary arrest and torture cases from Nepal. According to the information we have received, Satya Narayan Bhagat (32), a member of Madheshi Liberation Front (the sister organization of CPN-Maoist), was arbitrarily arrested by the armed police on 22 March 2004 and his whereabouts is […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a case of illegal arrest, detention and severe torture has taken place in Gurutalawa, Sri Lanka. Moningal Akila Dilhara De Silva, a 17-year-old student of the St. Thomas College, Gurutalawa, was brutally arrested for no apparent reason at his home […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Satya Pal has been detained in Jail for about 24 years as an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) since he was arrested from his village of Hayatpur in Hooghly, West Bengal, India on 24 July 1979. He was arrested on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that the two arrested human rights defenders Dinesh Prasain and Usha titikchu were released unconditionally from the Anamnagar City Police Office, Kathmandu at around 2:30pm on 5 June 2004. In the morning of 4 June 2004, Dinesh Prasain, a coordinator of Collective […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the illegal arrest of Dinesh Prasain and Usha Titikchu by the police from the Anamnagar City Police Office, Kathumandu at the COCAP office in Anamnagar, Kathmandu on 4 June 2004. It is reported that at the time of arrest the police did not […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the information that two individuals who were ordered to be released from the Central Jail Nepalgunj by the appellate court on separate charges, were instead re-arrested by the security personnel of the District Police Office, Banke on 17 May 2004. Kesham Bahadur Tharu and […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sending you updated information about the situation in Nepal. Please send a letter to the Government of Nepal demanding that they restore the parliament, revoke the draconian order of illegal assembly, and unconditionally release all detainees. To see our previous appeals issued on the current situation […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on the continued arrests and detentions of demonstrators in Nepal. According to the information, those detained are not getting basic facilities as provided for by law and also have no access to journalists, human rights activists or party officers. The Government of Nepal […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of the arbitrary arrest of two persons named Mr. Ajit Bhar and Mr. Bablu Das by the police from Jangipara Police Station in West Begal, India. Both of the victims were charged for allegedly committing various offences against the state, even though there is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 30-year-old woman named Ms. Hidayat was allegedly killed by her husband, Mr. Momin Ali Mahar in Dal village, Lakhi Ghulam Shah Town, Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan on 29 February 2004. The case was registered at the Chak Police Station. However, a human […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) on the illegal arrest and torture of Hadji Omar Ramalan, 50 and his wife Bairon, 36 in Maguindano. The military arbitrarily arrested them baselessly on suspicion of involvement in the January 4 bombing in Parang, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four individuals were arbitrarily arrested on 1 February 2004 by the security forces in Bajura (west part), Nepal, and are suspected of being seriously tortured while in custody. The four individuals, Messrs. Tula Thapa, Rajendra Adhikary, Ram Bhadur Rana and Man Bahadur Shah […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to draw your attention on the case of Kebbeduwa Gamage Prabhath Neel Chaminda, 28, who is arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the police at the Kelaniya Police Station on 1 December 2002. He is in remand prison for over one year now without any reason, […]

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is referring you to two cases of torture, illegal arrest and illegal detention about which complaints have been made to the National Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka quite some time back, but allegedly inquiries have been delayed up to now. One of the cases is that […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one man was tortured by the police on 8 January 2004 because he gave up illegal liquor business. In the past the AHRC has reported several cases in which former illicit liquor sellers, who gave up such a business, were punished by police […]

Three student leaders arbitrarily arrested by the police for shouting slogans against the monarchy NEPAL: Political right; Freedom of opinion; Arbitrary detention ———————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three student leaders in Nepal have been arbitrarily arrested without warrant by the police only for shouting slogans against the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another torture case from Sri Lanka. A man named Bamunuarachchi Pathiranalage Sathkumara was brutally tortured by the police officers at the Kuliyapitiya Police Station. Please send a letter to the local authorities and request them to correct this matter immediately and take serious action to […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about another severe torture case from Kandy, Sri Lanka. According to the information received, Shiron Jeewantha Pallekanda, 22, was severely tortured after being arrested by the police from the Katugastota Police Station on 7 December 2003. The police have not provided any medical treatment […]