Impunity

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a medical doctor and human rights activist based in Chhattisgarh, India has been extended to a further period of 14 days. The AHRC had in the past forwarded an appeal issued by the Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum, regarding two alleged brutal torture cases taken place in Banke district in May 2007. In one case, 8 young persons, including 6 minors, were arbitrarily arrested on 4 May 2007 and further brutally tortured by the officers […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is aware that over six weeks after two young men were killed and three seriously injured by soldiers in southern Thailand no action has been taken against the alleged killers, although the army has acknowledged responsibility. According to information that the AHRC obtained shortly after the incident […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about another post mortem inquest into the killings of people by the security forces in southern Thailand. The inquest concerns the police killing of 19 young men in at Sabayoi in southern Thailand on 28 April 2004. It relates to the Krue Se Mosque […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about continuing threats, including death threats, and harassment allegedly being perpetrated by members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) (CPN-M) against 13-year-old school girl Sarita (name changed for her security) and her mother in Baglung district, Nepal. Since March 2007 the two victims […]

Dear friends, As the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has already reported (UA-136-2007; UP-065-2007) police in Kalasin district of northeastern Thailand are accused of abducting and killing at least 24 persons in the past two years. We have already reported on the details of four cases; in this update we give the names and basic details […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that two influential persons in Thailand have received long sentences for rape and murder of migrant workers. However, a police officer who assisted the offender in the rape case has not been punished as the case against her remains pending. BUSINESSMAN JAILED […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand under the Emergency Decree on January 6 and 9, respectively. They were reportedly assaulted by the authorities in order to make them confess before Chang Hai temple military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a male teacher Prasad Janaka of the Saralankara School in Galle, who was accused in the Magistrate’s Court Case No 59302 of assaulting and causing hurt to 16-year-old P.W. Pushpakumara on 3 March 2005 was released by the Magistrate last month. This was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is very concerned about the lack of progress in the investigation prosecution of three army officers identified by a court as responsible for the killing of at least 28 young men. Meanwhile, one of the officers, General Pallop Pinmanee, is reportedly going to be reappointed to a […]

Dear friends, The Administrative Court in Thailand has turned down a petition challenging the decision of the Royal Thai Police and its commissioner general to reappoint the five policemen who are allegedly involved in the disappearance of lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit (UP-044-2007). The petition was filed by Somchai’s wife, Angkhana Neelaphaijit, who was also a joint-plaintiff […]

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of all the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on an alleged killing of a young man in Kalasin, northeast Thailand, by the police (UA-136-2007). We have so far documented over 20 similar killings and forced disappearances by the same group of officers. In this update we give details of three more of their […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from NGO Advocacy Forum Nepal that the District Police Office (DPO) and the District Administration Office (DAO) in Banke district, Nepal, have refused to register a First Information Report (FIR) concerning the extra-judicial killings in September 2002 of Mr. Dal Bahadur Thapa and his […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of yet another murderous assault in Burma which officials are trying to cover up. Ko Naing Oo was taken into custody by suburban council officers in Rangoon on 18 March 2007, because of a petty family dispute. He was found dead in their office […]

The central and state governments of India ruling 1.2 billion people in the world’s largest democracy boasts of economic and industrial growth, surpassing almost all nations except China. Ideally, this growth should trickle down to every citizen of the country both rich and poor, so all could reap the benefits.  However, it is the deeper […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a villager who has been jailed for one year in Burma after complaining about the illegal activities of local authorities. Daw Khin Win was sentenced in November to one year in jail after the officials lodged a counter-complaint against her for complaining about […]

Indonesia signed the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment on the 23 October 1985 and ratified it on the 28 October I 998 by the Law No. 5/1998. Since its ratification, there have been numerous calls by the CAT Committee- for instance in its “Concluding Observations: Indonesia” (01/11/2002. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on the alleged torture of two men after their arbitrary arrest and detention in southern Thailand, (see UAC-005-2008). It has since received news of other similar cases involving torture. The latest victims are charged with organizing the Nong Fern Karaoke restaurant bombing in Pattani province. CASE […]

I refer to the complaint made by Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi [please refer to your case number 5840/24/97-98] of a well planned assassination attempt on his life. The attempt was on 18.02.1998. He has given detailed information that his house was surrounded by police officers from Ramnagar police station in an attempt to assassinate him the […]