Death in custody

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local NGO, KontraS, regarding the shooting of four detainees in the Cebongan Correctional Facility by military officers. The shooting was an act of revenge by the officers for the murder of one of their colleagues which took place a couple of days […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an Indian prisoner was tortured to death by officials of the Kot Lakhpat prison of Lahore, Punjab. He was inhumanely beaten to death for committing the ‘crime’ of washing his clothes at a public tap at the courtyard of the jail. The jail […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man, whom we reported in September 2010 to have died under suspicious circumstances, did not escape from the custody of his investigators before he was found dead, but was tortured and murdered in their custody. UPDATED INFORMATION: In 3 September 2010, we […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information regarding the judgement of the Muaro Sijunjung District Court which was delivered on 29 January 2013 on a torture case of two minors by four police officers. The two minors were found hanging dead in the bathroom of Sijunjung Sub-District Police Station in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that military units have bombarded more than a dozen villages in three districts of Balochistan based on information about the presence of a guerilla fighter fighting for the independence of Balochistan. Independent sources claim that more than 50 persons, including women and children, were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was burned alive by an enraged mob while he was in the custody of the police, held on the charge of blasphemy. The man was taken into the custody of the police and was kept in a police station overnight. The […]

Basil Fernando Humankind has at least a few millenniums of experience in keeping prisons. It is part of the unfortunate predicament of humanity that there is this need to have prisons. However, over these long years, through bitter experiences, humanity has learned to lessen the suffering involved for the inmates of prisons and to make […]

(Hong Kong, October 31, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Wednesday called for the release on bail of the partner of a young woman who died in custody in Burma during March, and urged that a new investigation be opened into the officials responsible for her death. “According to news reports, Namase Motohiko has […]

The proposed Code of Criminal Procedure (Special Provisions Act) will lead to an increase in the abuse of power, extortion, torture and custodial deaths. A bill placed before parliament as the Code of Criminal Procedure (Special Provisions Act) of 2012 is dangerous in the present context and is very much likely to complicate the already […]

The Prime Minister, who yesterday said that “[m]indless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism that is sought to be created over the issue of corruption can do us no good”, has attacked and insulted the collective aspiration of the nation that longs for the government to setup an effective machinery to end all forms of corruption in India. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police in Rangoon in July tortured a 39-year-old man to death during interrogation over a murder. Officers at the Mayangone police station allegedly illegally detained the young man and after two days notified that family that he had died in custody due to […]

Yet another prisoner died whilst in custody at Vavuniya prison in Sri Lanka this week. Sadly the death happened in the same day when a meeting organised by the Secretary Defence and Minister of External Affairs was underway at the national capital. It was reported that 42 delegates from various countries participated in the meeting. […]

A prisoner, Ganeshan Nimalarubin, died in prison custody. Allegedly he was a former LTTEr who had been prison custody for a long time undergoing rehabilitation. His death in the prison has given rise to an important controversy. The BBC Sinhala Service reported yesterday (July 5) that the prisoner’s parents who are old and quite destitute […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following articles from the New Age, sent by ODHIKAR of Bangladesh. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A news report and an editorial from the New Age, sent by ODHIKAR, forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Mock trial calls for prosecution of people involved […]

Yesterday the world celebrated the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Ironically, it was also yesterday the Government of Kerala reinstated nine police officers to office following their suspension for suspected involvement in an infamous case of custodial torture and murder. The case is still under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission has followed closely reports since March of the death in custody of a young woman, Nan Woh Phan, in Rangoon, Burma, followed in May by the arrest and detention of her partner for alleged illegal business activity. The commission is concerned that whereas by now the family of the victim […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-104-2012 May 17, 2012 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Institutional peril and murderous politics The assassination of Mr. T. P. Chandrashekharan in Kerala on 4 May is another example of the murderous nature of politics in India. The police investigation has revealed that hired assassins executed the murder. […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) regarding death in custody of lèse majesté prisoner. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) […]

เราปรารถนาที่จะแบ่งปันแถลงการณ์ร่วมโดยองค์กรสิทธิมนุษยชนในประเทศไทย ต่อกรณีการเสียชีวิตในที่คุมขังของผู้ต้องขังคดีหมิ่นพระบรมเดชานุภาพ คณะกรรมาธิการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งเอเชีย (Asian Human Rights Commission) ฮ่องกง ————- แถลงการณ์ร่วมจากองค์กรพัฒนาเอกชนในประเทศไทย ส่งต่อโดยคณะกรรมาธิการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งเอเชีย (Asian Human Rights Commission: AHRC) ประเทศไทย: อากง SMS เสียชีวิตในเรือนจำ ระหว่างรับโทษจำคุก 20 ปีในคดีหมิ่นพระบรมเดชานุภาพ องค์กรสิทธิ เรียกร้องสิทธิในการได้รับการปล่อยตัวชั่วคราวและสิทธิในการรักษาพยาบาล สำหรับเผยแพร่ทันที 8 พฤษภาคม 2555 วันที่ 8 พฤษภาคม 2555 เวลา 9.10 น. นายอำพล หรือที่รู้จักกันในนาม “อากง” ได้เสียชีวิตลงที่โรงพยาบาลราชทัณฑ์ ขณะถูกลงโทษจำคุก 20 ปี ในคดีซึ่งถูกกล่าวหาว่าส่งข้อความสั้น (SMS) ไปยังโทรศัพท์ของเลขานุการส่วนตัวของนายอภิสิทธิ์ เวชชาชีวะ อดีตนายกรัฐมนตรี ซึ่งเป็นข้อความที่เข้าข่ายหมิ่นประมาท ดูหมิ่น แสดงความอาฆาตมาดร้าย พระมหากษัตริย์ และพระราชินี ตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญามาตรา 112 […]

Thai The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to express our grief and extend our deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Amphon Tangnoppakul, who was found dead in prison custody on 8 May 2012. Amphon (also known to his family as “Ah Kong” or “grandfather,” and to the public at “Uncle SMS”), a 61-year-old man, […]