Human rights defenders

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights organisation working in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the corruption of the Public Food Distribution System (PDS) shopkeeper. The state government acknowledging the corruption and malpractice cancelled the PDS shop’s license but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) and other sources that the organiser of the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP) group in Burma was on March 27 assaulted on a public street. Although the police said that the victim was entitled to complain, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) regarding serious threats to a trade union leader by the military in Ormoc City, Leyte in the Philippines. The victim has been receiving serious threats since April 2004 due to his activities in the protection […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn that a labour leader who survived an earlier attempt on his life in April 2006 was shot dead this morning, March 10. Gerardo Cristobal (a.k.a. Gerry) was driving his vehicle when armed men riding in another vehicle open fired at him soon after […]

(Hong Kong, February 22, 2008) The wife of abducted human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit and three victims of police torture on Friday told investigators that they have “no confidence” to pursue cases against the police without continued protection.  The four have been informed that from the end of this month the Department of Special Investigation […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that since our appeal on the case of a child soldier who was jailed in 2005 (AHRC-UAC-016-2008) a number of persons involved in the case have been threatened by local authorities. His aunt, who made the complaint, is under watch, and two people […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the situation of the human rights activists associated with the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) who were charged with a false case on 9 December 2007. The AHRC has been informed that the Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of yet another killing of an activist subsequent to receiving continuing threats on his life in 17 January 2008 in Tagbilaran City. He was in front of a pharmacy buying medicine when one of the two gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot him at […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a group of unknown persons had attempted to abduct a journalist on 7 January 2008. They came in two vehicles that were later found to belong to the police. But due to his neighbours’s intervention, the attempt to abduct him was failed. Meanwhile, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that another colleague of the late Bishop Alberto Ramento of the Philippine Independent Church (PIC), a prominent human rights defender murdered in October 2006, has been receiving renewed threats to his life over his mobile phone. The sender of the SMS also claims they […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been confirmed that three activists of a union who had been detained were finally deported from South Korea in the early morning of 13 December 2007. It is reported that the immigration officers falsely informed their legal representatives that they did not have any plans to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a priest, Rev. Eleuterio J. Revollido, whom we reported to have been facing continuing threats, has once again been experiencing surveillance. In the testimony he had written, Rev. Eleuterio has said that on several occasions from November 29 to December 7 unknown […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to provide you the update regarding the case of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). The AHRC has reported on 4 December regarding the death threats faced by the PVCHR activists and Dr. Lenin. The PVCHR has informed the AHRC […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three leaders of the Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU) were arrested and detained on 27 November 2007, by immigration officials outside their homes and workplace in South Korea. Although they have been arrested on the basis of their undocumented status, it is alleged that […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights [PVCHR] in Uttar Pradesh that their field activist Mr. Manoj Kumar is threatened by the local authorities for reporting a case of death from starvation. Pritam, three-year-old son of Mr. Ram Karan starved to death in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the recent threats to Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, the convener of the PVCHR in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state. It is reported that Dr. Lenin has been receiving calls over his telephone from unidentifiable telephone numbers […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the continuing threats of social workers by the Army Special Forces in Papua since September 2007 to get location of Father Johanes Djonga working for human rights. The AHRC has earlier raised the alarm about the army’s threats against the Father Djonga […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the case of Mr. Prem Kumar Nut, a human rights activist who is facing death threats for approaching the local police to complain against a person in the locality. CASE DETAILS: Mr. Prem Kumar […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Jahangir Alam Akash, a journalist and human rights defender based in Rajshahi city is once again threatened by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for exposing the atrocities committed by the RAB in Bangladesh. Mr. Akash is the coordinator of the Task Force […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the serious medical condition of a prominent human rights lawyer, Mr. Syed Hassan Tariq. He was brutally tortured by the police upon instructions allegedly by the provincial chief minister in Nawabshah, Sindh Province after he was arrested on 8 November 2007. Mr. Tariq […]