Impunity

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Velu Yogarasa was arrested and detained in Bogambara remand prison by the TID in August, 2008 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. He was severely tortured in custody on several occasions by the prison officers. CASE NARRATIVE: Mr. Velu Yogarasa (26) of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commision has received updated information that one of the main accused in the murder of Krishna Prasad Adhikari, and the only suspect who has been arrested so far, was released on September 29, 2013. Krishna Prasad Adhikari was abducted and killed by Maoist cadres in 2004 at the heart […]

Cases of sexual assault on minors have increased in the country during the recent months. During the month of September alone, a number of such cases were registered, however, there are many cases which were not reported because of the fear of a backlash from powerful persons and the police, also some of the cases […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture case of Yusli, who was physically assaulted and shot to death by three police officers in 2011. In March this year, Tangerang District Court sentenced the perpetrators to two to five years imprisonments for maltreatment. However, the AHRC has learned […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) appreciates the efforts of the Pakistani Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and his two-member fact finding team to probe the cases of the Pakistanis who are on death row and awaiting beheading on the charges of drug smuggling. The government of Saudi Arabia must also be praised for its readiness […]

Counting up to August 2013, as many as 126 extrajudicial deaths and over 400 disappearances have taken place in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Violent killings and disappearance after arrest by authorities continues without relent. Most bodies, of those murdered extra judicially, have been found in the Balochi speaking districts of the province, particularly Quetta, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has since April followed the case of a couple who were brutally assaulted and robbed by three soldiers in Pyi, central Burma, resulting in the death of one of them. Despite two of the three perpetrators being quickly apprehended, their battalion commander took them into army custody […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Women in Governance, Assam (WinG-Assam), a network of women activists in Assam, India, about the extrajudicial execution and injuring of two children from Hemlai Tea Estate area, Jorhat, Assam state. The incident is reported to have happened on 18 August 2013. CASE NARRATIVE: […]

Download the full text of the report ( PDF) (Word) In her media statement from Colombo on 31 August 2013, Dr. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state, […]

By Avinash Pandey Ayodhya was in news, for all the wrong reasons, again. Vishva Hindu Parishad, that venomous organization with equal hatred for the minorities and the nation, had tried to infiltrate into Ayodhya yet again. They were stopped by the state government. It was a game well played. A communal organization has attempted to […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a Manipur based civil society organization regarding the murder of two persons Mr. Okram Gyanendro (35 years), son of Okram Achou, and Mr. Ayekpam Nobinchandra (55 years), son of Mr. A. Mohon Singh by unknown perpetrators. On 18 and 28 August 2013, the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 30 year-old man was found dead in a paddy field in Rupandehi district with marks of beatings all over his body and strong evidence of foul play. However, the police refused to register the case and forced the family to cremate their […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Defend Job Philippine regarding eviction notice served on 250 families living along the R-10 or Road 10 in Tondo, Manila by the government authorities. The planned forced eviction, without compensation, will not only jeopardize living conditions of the people but also expose them […]

Today, 30 August 2013, is the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance. According to the UN Resolution A/RES/65/209 adopted in the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly, the 30th day of August has been declared, and has been so observed since 2011, as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance every year. This Resolution […]

On July 3rd 2013, President Mahinda Rajapaksha published a gazette that authorized the armed forces to engage in “the maintenance of public order”. Last week, he announced a new ministry under the title “the Ministry of Law and Order”. By these two acts, the Sri Lankan civilian police have been virtually reduced to nothing, and […]

On June 21, we reported that Alfredo Lim, the former Mayor of Manila, had tortured a rape suspect in full view of the public, while the senior police officers present did nothing to prevent him. We rightly demanded that Lim, who perpetrated the torture and the policemen, who did nothing to stop the torture, be […]

The passing of the Food Security Bill by the Lok Sabha comes as a big relief to the impoverished masses of a country that is home to hunger. The Asian Human Rights Commission congratulates India for taking a definite, even if grossly inadequate step, towards eradication of hunger with this move and hopes it will […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman was dragged onto the street and was tied to a tree by land grabbers working for a member of the provincial assembly of Punjab from the ruling party. The police reached the scene just as the perpetrators were getting ready to […]

2013 අ‍ගෝස්තු 23 ජනාධිපතිවරයා යටතේ නීතිය හා සාමය අමාත්‍යාංශයක් ස්ථාපිත කරන බව නිවේදනය කර තිබේ. මේ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වන්නේ, වාර්තාවන්ට අනුව විශ්‍රාමික හමුදා නිලධාරියෙකු වන මේජර් ජනරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) නන්ද මල්ලවාරච්චි ය. මේජර් ජනරාල් මල්ලවාරච්චි    ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුධ හමුදාවේ හිටපු කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධානියා ය. පසුව ඔහු ඉන්දුනීසියාවේ සිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති බවට පත්විය. මැලේසියානු ආරක්ෂක අංශවල උදව් […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continued deaths of children by Encephalitis in Eastern Uttar Pradesh from Manoj Singh, a local journalist working with a reputed Hindi newspaper. The toll has gone up frighteningly and now stands at 172 and counting. Sadly this is the state of affairs despite […]