Extrajudicial killings

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from local NGO KARAPATAN regarding the killing of human rights activist, Siche Bustamante-Gandinao on 10 March 2007. The victim was one of the witnesses who testified before the UN Special Rappoteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Professor Philip Alston during his visit to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No. 6 of the Char Fashion Municipality in Bhola district, allegedly caused by a brutal assault by naval officers on 20 February 2007. Mr. Dulal was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the governmental authorities have started investigations regarding the case of the alleged torture of three men by the Army in Paikgachha, Khulna district, in which one person died (for further details please see: UA-029-2007). In the updated information, we have learned that an Assistant […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling your attention to the following list of the people who have been allegedly killed, arrested and abducted since January 2006 in Sri Lanka. We have received the information from reliable source of Sri Lanka, however the identity of this source cannot be revealed for security […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is disappointed that over three months after a court in Thailand identified three army officers as responsible for the killing of 28 persons in April 2004, there is so far no news of any work to prosecute them. Urgent action is needed to press the public prosecutor […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organization MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the alleged extra-judicial killing of a villager named Akhil Mondal by the Border Security Force personnel on 23 November 2006. Despite the existence of two eye witnesses in the case, no official investigation […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Human Rights Alert (HRA) based in Manipur, India, regarding an alleged incident of indiscriminate firing in the compound of a church by the officers from the 32 Assam Rifle (AR) stationed in Manipur. It is alleged that a person […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about the continuing killings in the Philippines this time of seven people including one professor who was shot in the University in front of the students, and an acting presiding judge of Quezon City; both were killed on 19 January 2007. We […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Philippine authorities are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal killing of a young Christian pastor by the security forces in Jaffna on 13 January 2007. The army initially claimed that they killed a terrorist in self-defence.  Now they have changed their version of the story claiming that the pastor […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details from the Yoma-3 News Service (Thailand) and other sources of the alleged death in police custody of another young man in Burma due to assault. According to his wife, Maung Chan Kun was taken by the police from his family’s house in the Irrawaddy […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by nine officers of the Muncipal Administrative Police Unit (SATPOL PP) on Pakubuwono Street in Southern Jakarta on the 8 January 2007. The boy was arrested for a petty violation of the municipal regulations. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 in Jessore district on 20 November 2006. We were informed that a 25-year-old Mr. Khademul Islam Masum was arbitrarily arrested by the RAB-6 personnel near his house in Shekhhati […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kalidas Ghosh, a 17-year-old boy who was killed by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at the Indo-Bangladesh border on 28 December 2007. The AHRC has been informed by Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organisation working in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informs you regarding the further killing of eight persons, six of whom activists, one driver and one journalist, in separate incidents that took place between December 12 to 31, 2006. These cases were received from reliable sources and information from various media sources. CASE DETAILS: On December […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are […]

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed about the killing of a student league activist in Rajishahi district by a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) team at a public bazaar in front of more than 100 witnesses […]

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two men who surrendered to the Magistrate’s Court of Galle were taken into custody by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) of Galle from the court premises […]

[RE: UA-72-2005: PHILIPPINES: Prosecutor’s inaction to file murder charges against military officers who killed two people; UP-130-2006: PHILIPPINES: Court judge delays issuance of arrest warrants to military men charged with murder; UP-211-2006: PHILIPPINES: Replacement of a prosecutor required; complaint filed against a judge for grave abuse, violation of code of conduct] ————————————- PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to provide immediate protection to a witness of a custodial death case, who is receiving death threats in Sri Lanka. He is the key eye witness of the custodial death of Mr. Hettiarachchige Abeysiri, 52, who was tortured to death by […]