Impunity

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appealing to you to write once again to the authorities in India regarding the case of Dr. Binayek Sen who is currently detained at the Raipur prison in Chhattisgarh state. The AHRC is informed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), of which Dr. Sen […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources regarding three cases of torture allegedly committed in the Kohalpur Area Police Office (APO) in Banke District during August and September 2007. In one case, a person was tortured and forced to drink urine. In the other two cases, the victims […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault and arbitrary deprivation of a 17-year-old schoolboy’s right to education by his school principal for more than 4 months, despite education department directives to the contrary. When his parents complained to the police, they were threatened and pressurized by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights organisations in Manipur, India regarding the attack by an underground group against the government forces and a retaliatory strike by the government forces on September 30, 2007. It is reported that in the attack organised by the People’s Revolutionary Party of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information about the signing of a confession falsely charging Jaime Rosios (a.k.a. Jimmy), a labour leader who was abducted and has disappeared since August 11. Alex Magbanua was threatened by police that he would be tortured and killed if he refused to sign the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that a torture victim, Oting Mariano, whom police arrested and falsely charged on 13 January 2007 has already been released after he was exonerated from false charges. He walked out free from his detention center on September 20 after the prosecutor dismissed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had been informed that two more suspects in Munir’s case have been identified and their court records have been conveyed to the Jakarta Pusat District Court. Munir died of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda Indonesia Airways flight to Amsterdam on 7 September 2004. Following the acquittal of […]

On October 1, 1965, a period of oppression started in Indonesia, when the Indonesian government entered into a violent conflict that resulted in years of human rights abuses. In a joint effort, today, a group of non-governmental organizations urged the National Commission for Human Rights in Indonesia (Komnas HAM) to start inquiries into the human […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the policemen involved in attacking peaceful demonstration of public school teachers in Taft Avenue, Manila on 5 October 2007 have not been held to account. The teachers were holding their activity in a park where the demonstration should have been allowed to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged fabrication of charges on a woman by the police reacting to her attempt to seek justice. She was previously been assaulted by the police. However a case was filed against her in 2003. This time again, she was harassed and slapped […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the authorities to take adequate action against the policemen involved in torturing a school teacher following his arrest on August 23, 2007. The victim, Siya Ram Gachaedar, was taken for questioning to Haraicha Area Police Station (APO), Haraich […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the death of a young man and of severe injuries caused to several others when they were brutally tortured by the army’s Joint Forces. Victim Md. Jamal Uddin died from a brutal beating a few hours after arrest on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Urban Resource Centre-Pakistan, an organization working on housing rights, that one person was shot dead and more than 10 were injured by thugs, with the help of the police, during an illegal demolition on 3 October 2007. However the case has not been […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appealing to you to write to the Indian authorities requesting them to drop the false charges against Dr. Binayak Sen and release him from custody. 141 days have passed since the Chhattisgarh state government has detained Dr. Binayak Sen, a noted human rights activist and medical […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged deprivation of the right to education of a 15-year-old schoolgirl by the Principals of two schools, in disregard of instructions of the Director of Education to admit her. As a result, the victim, who is being brought up by her grandparents […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had been informed that the final review appeal into the Supreme Court’s ruling acquitting the sole suspect into the death of a prominent human rights activist, Mr. Munir Said Thalib, has began on 16 August 2007. Munir died of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda Indonesia Airways flight […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on the postmortem inquest into the deaths of 78 persons in 2004 at Tak Bai, Narathiwat, Thailand. The commander of the dispersal operation testified that he stayed inside the police station for most of the time during the dispersal; and when more than […]

Indonesia, which received the second highest number of votes in elections to the United Nations Human Rights Council earlier this year, will celebrate its sixty second Independence Day on August 17, 2007. Given these election results, we could imagine that Indonesia is considered as being a moderate nation which consistently promotes and protects human rights. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding the case of Mr. Santhosh Mondal who was mowed down and drowned by the Border Security Force [BSF] in West Bengal, India. It is alleged the BSF officers ran a speedboat […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the alleged torture of a local council member by a Sub Inspector on 21 June 2007. The sub inspector belongs to the Hasalaka police station located in Theldeniya district, Kandy division, Sri Lanka. At the time of the incident the victim was inquiring […]