Enforced disappearances and abductions

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. In all countries of Asia, this Christmas and new year will be celebrated in very difficult conditions. We extend our wishes to all families who are struggling in the midst of these difficulties to fight for their rights. We particularly […]

เรียนทุกท่าน เราปรารถนาจะส่งต่อแถลงกาณ์จาก มูลนิธิยุติธรรมเพื่อสันติภาพ (Justice for Peace Foundation: JPF) คณะกรรมาธิการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งเอเชีย ฮ่องกง ————- เพื่อการเผยแพร่ทันที AHRC-FST-102-2010-TH 23 ธันวาคม 2553 แถลงการณ์จาก มูลนิธิยุติธรรมเพื่อสันติภาพ (Justice for Peace Foundation: JPF) ส่งต่อโดย คณะกรรมาธิการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งเอเชีย (Asian Human Rights Commission) ประเทศไทย: ขอให้รัฐบาลไทย ให้สัตยาบัน ในอนุสัญญาระหว่างประเทศ ว่าด้วย การคุ้มครองบุคคลทุกคน จากการถูกบังคับให้สูญหาย โดยไม่สมัครใจ ขององค์การสหประชาชาติ ที่มีผลบังคับใช้แล้ววันนี้ ที่ 009/2553 วันที่ 23 ธันวาคม 2553 แถลงการณ์: ขอให้รัฐบาลไทย ให้สัตยาบัน ในอนุสัญญาระหว่างประเทศ ว่าด้วย การคุ้มครองบุคคลทุกคน จากการถูกบังคับให้สูญหาย โดยไม่สมัครใจ ขององค์การสหประชาชาติ ที่มีผลบังคับใช้แล้ววันนี้ […]

Dear friends,   We wish to share with you the following statement from UCANEWS.   Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong   ————- A Statement from UCANEWS forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission     Posted By pramual On December 21, 2010 @ 3:29 pm In Analysis & Opinion, Countries, Daily Service, Sri Lanka […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance of a human rights defender and Homeopathic doctor by profession from his private clinic by some plain clothed persons. They were accompanied by a police vehicle and the abductors were traveling in a black Toyota car. The lawyer of the disappeared […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of a case of a man who disappeared after a dispute with a government official in the east of the country. Although the case has been reported to the police and other authorities, no action has been taken against the person suspected of orchestrating […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) appreciates the effort taken by the Home Minister of India in undertaking a visit to Manipur. Manipur is one of the states in India with a poor human rights record. During the past three years the number of encounter killings reported from the state has steadily increased, until the […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Bahrain Human Rights Monitor. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Bahrain Human Rights Monitor forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission On 23 December 2010, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance will enter […]

Over six-and-a-half years after police abducted and presumably killed human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, no one has yet been punished. The one police officer among five accused who was found guilty of a relatively minor criminal charge and sentenced to three years in jail appealed the conviction and while out of prison on bail himself […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Baloch Human Rights Council (UK). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——- An Open Letter from Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) His Excellency Ban Ki-moon Secretary General United Nation […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) to the Rt Hon. David Cameron. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——- An Open Letter from the Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Press Release from the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) (November 25, 2010) On 23 November […]

A young man has disappeared from police custody after being raped by two police officials. The police officials have been arrested after protests by the villagers but the young man has not been recovered. The district police of Naushahro Feroze, Sindh province, have not initiated a proper investigation into his disappearance. According to the details […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that in recent days illegal arrests, abduction, killings and disappearances by the law enforcement agencies have increased in Balochistan province after the announcement by the Federal Interior minister that a lesson must be taught to Balochi insurgents by any means necessary. The Frontier Corps, a […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Justice for Peace Foundation, Thailand, concerning a criminal case that police have brought against a victim of alleged torture who was represented by human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, whom police abducted and killed in 2004. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- […]

Hundreds of families of disappeared persons will gather at Raddoluwa Junction at Seeduwa, Sri Lanka at the monument for the disappeared to commemorate the day. This monument was erected in 2000. In a wall behind the monument there are a few hundred pictures of disappeared young persons, who disappeared mainly from the south in the […]

On September 28, 2009 the House of Representatives issued several recommendations to the President to bring the perpetrators of the infamous student disappearances of 1998 to justice. Human rights activists who protested against the inaction of the president in Jakarta with a tent action in front of the presidential palace were arrested during the evening […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF). The press release is for observers at the reading of the verdict in the Somchai Neelapaijit disappearance case reached by the Appeal Court on Friday 24 September 2010, 9.30 am, at […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bodies of a lawyer and his cousin from Balochistan province have been found. Both bodies bore marks of severe torture. They had been allegedly arrested by the Frontier Corp (FC), a paramilitary force of Pakistan. Another lawyer and four other persons were […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that man was abducted by a group of unknown persons in Dadalla, Galle. The relatives of the victim believe the abduction is due to a land dispute that they had with a high profile businessman. While the relatives have made several complaints to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, that Mr. Asim Zakir, a young man who was previously arrested by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), an intelligence agency of the Pakistani armed forces, was extrajudicially killed when his jeep was destroyed in an explosion. In […]