Extrajudicial killings

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another peasant leader, Ofelia Rodriguez (61), was killed allegedly by gunmen believed to be military agents in Pampanga, Luzon on 16 January 2006. She was killed inside her house while attending to her granddaughter and elderly mother. A report by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the police shootout at protestors in Orissa, India which has resulted in the confirmed death of nine persons. There are also reports from various sources that the total death toll will be at least […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is in receipt of your letter dated 13 December 2005 detailing the Philippine government’s response to our concern about the unabated incidents of extra-judicial killings and violence against activists, the lack of witness protection and the failures in police investigations. In your letter you said: “I assure you that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Task Force against Torture (TFT) of the Rajshahi district that two persons were killed by police fire in the Chapainawabganj district. The policemen were guarding the office of the rural electrification centre (Palli Biddut Kendra) while around 10,000 consumers were demanding regular uninterrupted […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three persons were killed by police fire in the Kustia district. The policemen were working under a Mobile Court led by a class one magistrate who was conducting an operation to seize ‘illegal’ sugar cane crushers from farmers. The firing by the police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a person was taken into custody by the security forces in Nepal and since arrest his whereabouts are not known and that the person is feared to be murdered in custody. Advocacy Forum, the local partner of the AHRC has informed us that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the killing of a man, Udaya Kumara, by policemen attached to the Mount Lavinia police station on 19 December 2005. After the victim’s death, the policemen involved allegedly fabricated stories to justify Udaya’s death. The police claimed that Udaya tried to throw a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the shocking beating to death of two marine officers on 21 September 2005 and the subsequent arrest of 12?villagers in Muang district, Narathiwat province, southern Thailand. The marine officers were reportedly involved in a shooting incident that killed two villagers and wounded four […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the arrest, torture and subsequent death of a handicapped man in police custody at Harora police station, North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. On 8 August 1999, Abdul Hamid Molla was arrested by the police without any arrest memo, under […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was arbitrarily arrested and detained then tortured and subsequently killed by the police attached to the Mohammadpur police station in Dhaka. The police arrested the man after suspecting him of involvement in a theft case, which took place in a jewelers […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

[RE: UP-75-2005: Witnesses of activists’ killings in Luzon refuse to give evidence fearing their security UP-106-2005: Another human rights lawyer killed; wounded priest died while being treated at a hospital; UA-216-2005: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead] —————————————————————————– UP-156-2005: PHILIPPINES: Unabated killing […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a 43-year-old farmer from Boryeong of South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, who died from a cerebral hemorrhage due to a skull fracture on 24 November 2005 after being beaten by riot police during a rally in Seoul on November 15. The rally was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the indiscriminate firing by the Border Security Force (BSF) in Muradpur village and Biswaspura, Jalangi Police station, Murshidabad District, out of which one man sustained injuries and is fighting for survival, another died on […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the shocking killing of nine farmers in Palo, Leyte, Visayas early today. A reliable source said nine people were killed while several others were wounded when soldiers attached to the 19th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, opened fire on a group of people […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that five Thai police officers have dropped defamation complaints against a senior forensic scientist and government bureaucrat over comments that an apparent extrajudicial killing could not be a suicide as claimed by the police. However, the AHRC has also learnt that the police have […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a man due to severe torture by the Railway Police Force on 28 October 2005 in Kharagpur, Medinipore District, West Bengal. On October 20, the railway protection force (RPF) arrested the […]