Police violence

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the police shooting upon a crowd, which led to the death of five persons and injuries to a further 50. On 19 October 2005, police from the Companiganj police station, under the jurisdiction of the Noakhali district, gunned down […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the owner arbitrarily closed down the factory in 2002. The AHRC previously reported that the owner, Mohamed Mohamed Izzath deprived his workers of the Employees Trust […]

A rather disturbing situation has arisen Sri Lanka in recent weeks. The Inspector General of Police has begun to openly challenge the National Police Commission (NPC), which is a constitutional body created by the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. The NPC has powers of appointment, promotion, and disciplinary control over the police in Sri Lanka. […]

INDIA: Assault; murder; inaction by police and hospital authorities; failure of justice; rule of law Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of an assault victim in West Bengal.  The man was brutally and fatally assaulted after his goat had entered the alleged perpetrators’ land and eaten some […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Forum for Indigenous Perspectives and Action in Manipur, India regarding human rights violations committed by the security personnel at Thanga Karang, Bishenpur District, Manipur. According to the information received, members of the 73 Mountain Brigade under the aegis of 57 Mountain Division […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, threatened and assaulted by the officers at the Block Development Office in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal. Mr. Sharma was, at the time of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three policemen from the Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and Women in Colombo were taken by the Tamil rebel group (LTTE) in Arippu on 10 September 2005 and have been detained since then, after they had gone to a LTTE […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the killing of an unarmed man allegedly at the hands of Border Security Forces (BSF), despite the victim pleading his innocence in regards to the allegations the BSF were making against him. According to witnesses, on 24 August 2005, Mr. Ashutosh Roy […]

(Re: UG-04-2005: INDIA: Poor condition of the Basirhat Hospital morgue represents the collapse of post mortem system in West Bengal, AG-01-2004: INDIA: AHRC letter to the President of India regarding the horrendous practices during forensic examinations in West Bengal, UP-18-2004: INDIA: Post mortem procedures in West Bengal and the case of Mousumi Ari) Dear friends, […]

Public pressure and the courageous stand taken by Sri Lanka’s Commissioner of Elections have made certain that the next presidential elections will be held this year; President Kumaratunga’s claim to a further year in power has been rejected. This achievement is of enormous importance for both social and political morale. Had this occurred during the […]

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the case of Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava (30), an adivasi who was murdered by an Indian […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has heard a report through the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio service that a woman in western Burma was raped by a police officer, after which the local police chief forced the victim to marry her assailant. When the victim refused to then divorce him, the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and illegal detention of a man at the Bapunagar police station in Ahmedabad City, Gujarat. It is alleged that on 28 April Amit (alias Montu) Babubhai Dabhi was taken by two policemen to the Amit Mill Police Chowky […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the abuse of a poor coconut vendor at the hands of the Border Security Forces (BSF) in Muradpur village, West Bengal. Khalil Uddin is a hawker, selling coconuts mainly in Dakshin Ghoshpara village, under […]

The case of Don Wijerathna Munasinghe, who was arrested on 10 April 2005 and subsequently died of injuries allegedly received at the Maharagama Police Station, received wide publicity in the media.?The alleged reason for his arrest was that he did not stop his three-wheeler vehicle when instructed to do so by the police.?The following morning […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information regarding the assault of a police constable by several other personnel at a police post in Andiyagala on 3 February 2005. Many people witnessed this assault and the victim received a severely damaged eardrum as proof that he was beaten. Despite this, the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault and illegal detention of a hotel owner and cashier by five police officers. The two victims had asked the police to pay for food that they had taken and in response, the police assaulted the two and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward you information regarding the fabrication of charges against a man by the Wadduwa Police. Mr U. Jayasiri Abeyratne and Mr Suseuhewage Asanka Kumarasiri were riding a bicycle near their homes when a lorry, owned by Kandurata Kuda – up-country umbrella makers, drove into them. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Mr. Tharuka Fernando has been severely injured by a criminal who has a nexus with the Panuadura police on 19 December 2005. It was reported that despite the fact that the Panadura police arrested an illegal drug dealer, Samantha, at […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the concerns expressed by the Secretary General of the United Nations in his statement on the human rights situation in Nepal. Time and again the AHRC has stressed that regional governments such as India, international governments and bodies such as European Union, national political parties and the King […]