Sexual violence

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal physical assault of a boy by his principal on 7 June 2007. The boy was hospitalised for six days for the injuries he suffered. The police have investigated the case against the principal, however in the meantime, he is still acting […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the continued inaction of the police into the alleged sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl by her father. The girl’s grandmother filed a complaint at the Panwila police station in Kandy on 18 June 2007, but they have done nothing to investigate […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged abuse of a child maid by the officer of the Rapid Action Battalion-1 in Dhaka and his wife on around 24 May 2007. The victim was brutally assaulted by the couple and as a result, her one […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the torture and inhuman treatment of eight persons by the police in Khaipure Mirs District, Sindh.  The police tied the detainees with ropes and chains around their necks. The detainees were also forced to bark like dogs and bite each other like […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports that a torture and sexual molestation victim, 30 year-old widow Ms. Kalpana Bhandari, has received serious threats from the police since she registered a case demanding compensation for torture with the Kathmandu District Court on June 11, 2007, concerning her arbitrary arrest, […]

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 been informed by its local partner in Nepal, the Advocacy Forum, of the alleged appalling rape of a 14-year-old mentally ill girl by three police constables from Zonal Police Office (ZPO) and one civilian in Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur district on 4-5 June 2007. Two of the police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the denial of the right to education to a 15-year-old rape victim in Ahangama, Galle District, Galle Division, Southern Range, Sri Lanka. From 15 May 2007, the school principal has refused to allow the victim to resume schooling following the rape incident on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees that a woman was brutally tortured and suffered and sexually molested by the police on grounds that she was involved in setting fire to a government […]

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 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) has received information regarding an alleged assault on a young student by a principal in Galle district, Sri Lanka on 4 April 2007. It is reported that without being given any reason by principal, the student was inhumanely assaulted following which he then had to be hospitalized […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the teacher who was charged with assaulting a student has yet to be suspended from his post. In addition, the teacher has allegedly attempted to pressurize the student victim and his family. The AHRC reported the original incident; please refer UA-414-2006 for background information. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote to you about a rape case happened in Khulna district, the victim has faced continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to the deliberate inaction of the Paikgachha police (To learn more details, please refer to our original appeals: UP-221-2006; UA-306-2006). We have now updated the information regarding […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 16 year-old female gang-rape survivor has been allegedly ordered by the police to leave the safe-house where she and her family have been staying in Sindh province, Pakistan. The police allegedly threatened the victim to vacate the property on 26 March 2007, despite […]

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher at the school on 15 March 2007. The victim was severely beaten, sustained injuries and was hospitalised for three days after the incident. It has been reported that the school principle and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, India regarding the rape of a 13 years old girl. It is alleged that police has failed to register a case against the criminals despite several complaints. […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the kidnapping and gang-rape of a 15 year-old-girl by more than a dozen attackers from Town Layyah in Punjab province beginning on 30 January 2007. The heinous crime, which was committed over a four-day period, has still not been registered by the police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report of the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by 11 persons in Ubaro Town, Ghotki district, Sindh province, Pakistan on 27 January 2007. We were informed that the victim was forced to parade in naked back home by the alleged perpetrators. We […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) have been informed that 14-year-old W. K. Sajini Vasana Perera was insulted both physically and mentally by her class teacher in front of all classmates without any legitimate reason on 27 October 2006. The victim child was too embarrassed and impressionable to endure her distress and jumped from […]