Police violence

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on a man by several policemen of the Rakwana police allegedly for refusing to pay a bribe solicited from him on 9 October 2007. Accordingly, when he was travelling on his motor bicycle with a friend, the policemen stopped him and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the police, particularly the Task Force Usig (TFU), to promptly afford necessary protection and assistance to the wife and two daughters of murdered activist Jose Manegdeg III. Although they did assure that they would reinvestigate to gather more […]

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 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) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the death of yet another person at the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal. In the past year, the AHRC has reported 10 cases of extrajudicial killing by the Border Security Force [BSF] […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding two cases where the local police in the state are involved in corrupt and questionable practices. The two cases below not only shows how the local police as an institution functions […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the striking workers at the Korean-owned garment factory inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone (Cepz) were forced to abandon their strike following frequent violent attacks by unidentified armed men. Although an investigation was conducted, the credibility of its result is questionable. UPDATED […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the alleged case of rape of a Bangladeshi woman by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at the Indo-Bangladesh border. It is alleged that the woman who was taken into custody by the BSF […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Nandail police allegedly assaulted unarmed peasants who were peacefully queuing in line, waiting to purchase fertilizer from government’s dealer at Nandail, Mymensing on 2 March 2007. More than seven farmers were wounded, among them, Kobir Hossain, who was hospitalized and was received […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and torture of Hendrick Sikumbang by the police officers of Pekanbaru police office on 14 June 2007. By the way it was done, the action wad deemed more an ‘abduction’ than an arrest. The police brutally tortured Mr. Sikumbang after […]

For immediate release 15 June 2007 Meeting with the President of Sri Lanka yesterday, the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed serious concern about the grave human rights situation in Sri Lanka, including, renewed patterns of enforced disappearances and targeted killings of civilians, as well as shrinking space for civil society. “I […]

(Note: We are reproducing the report published on June 14 2007 by the International Crisis Group. The Executive Summary and Recommendations follow below). ____________ *INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORT* Colombo/Brussels, 14 June 2007: The international community must press the warring sides for urgent action to address wide-spread human rights abuses in Sri Lanka as […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner based in Andhra Pradesh, India regarding the death of a person in mysterious circumstances and the failure of the local police to investigate the case. In fact it is alleged that the local police officers are trying to protect the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh regarding an incident where a Dalit medical doctor was insulted in front of her patients. It is alleged that the doctor was insulted when she refused to prescribe medicines […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in Jakarta regarding the death of Teguh Uripno, a man who was brutally tortured by officers attached to Serpong sector police in Tangerang district on 20 April 2007. Uripno was detained at the police headquarters following his arrests for defending […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another five activists have been killed while another one was forcibly disappeared in separate incidents in February, March and May of this year. These belated reports received from various sources clearly exposes the reality of the alarming state of insecurity the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the bonded labour of three persons from the Musahar community in Asbaranpur village of Varanasi district. Musahar is a scheduled caste and considered untouchable by the caste Hindus. It is alleged […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that S. Kinsley de Silva (48) was brutally tortured by four army officers following his arrest at his residence on 10 May 2007. The military men, all attached to Army Unit at Old Sri Sumangala Boys School, arrested De Silva in Thalpitiya, Wadduwa without […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the inhuman treatment by the police towards a 29-year-old man, Mr. B Sumith Priyantha Fernando, on 26 March 2007. Mr. Fernando was illegally arrested, detained and was subsequently brutally tortured by a police officer, Officer- in Charge (OIC) of the Special Investigation Unit […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received update information regarding the alleged brutal assault of Mr. Dhanawardena by inmates and trainees of the police training college in Ketapola on 27 March 2006 (please see UA-121-2006and UP-110-2006 for more details about the case). The fundamental rights case before the Supreme Court regarding the torture case of […]