Sexual violence

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death […]

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 […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about an attempted rape in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, by a local police officer on October 15. The officer, who was drunk at the time, allegedly forced his way into the house and tried to commit rape after extorting money from the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and disturbing case of rape of a 14 year-old girl in the town of Talawakelle.  The young girl was deceived, raped and then assaulted by three boys who then locked her up without food and water for two days.  When the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka on 10 October 2005. The victim was reportedly threatened at knife-point and forcibly drugged before being raped. She was then put onto a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human +Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 16-year-old boy was assaulted by a school teacher at the Pannampitiya Secondary School in Lenadora, Dumbulla District, Sri Lanka on 22 September 2005. Due to the assault, the boy suffered from bad ear pain and blurred vision. He also had several scratches […]

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 about the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Galagedara, Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005. After the girl’s father reported the incident to the police, the alleged perpetrator was arrested but later released on bail. The victim is now unable to either go home […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another rape case committed by the government or security officials in Burma. According to the information received, two police officers, Tin Ko Oo & Kyaw Myo Min, together with a civilian named Naing Min, in Twente Township, Rangoon, Burma, raped a young woman […]

[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 received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village, 24 Parganas (North) District, West Bengal, India. Masoora Bibi, a widow lived in her in-laws house with her three children. On 18 June […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the illegal detention of a young boy, Rajiv, a class IX student of Maheshwari Vidyalaya, at the Golabari police station, Howrah, West Bengal. According to the police, Rajiv’s father, Mr Bhogendra Rai, who works […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the torture of a 8 year old child Munni, who was working as a maidservant in the house of Raja Mukherjee, a police sub-inspector (SI). Munni was brutally tortured and abused by SI Raja […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of the sexual abuse of a seven-year-old boy in Sri Lanka. For the protection of the victim and his mother, we cannot reveal his name or that of the perpetrators. We can reveal, however, that the incident happened in the vicinity of Seeduwa. According […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that a woman named Mrs. Gedulal Mondal, was raped and then killed by a suspected unqualified doctor on 28 December 2004, in Baishnav Nagar, Maldah District, West Bengal. Though the doctor has now been arrested, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that torture and rape victim Hasna Mondal from East Daukimari, District Jalpaiguri, West Bengal is still waiting for the perpetrators to be punished, ten years after the brutal incident. A complaint was filed the day […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the gang rape of a woman by police personnel in Chuadanga, Bangladesh. On the night of 18 December 2004, 14 policemen from the Gokulkhali outpost in Chuadanga are alleged to have gang raped Dali Khatun after they picked her up from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the exorbitant delay in the rape case of 16-year-old victim Rita, by the Attorney General’s Department. According to the information received, Rita’s case (No 32151) was returned by the registrar of Nuwara-Eliya Magistrates Courts on the request of the Attorney General’s Department on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Sita Sada, a 14-year old Dalit girl, was raped and killed by upper caste men on 17 May 2004. According to our information, while Sita was sleeping at night, more than 10 men came and dragged her out of the house. Two days […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Heeralu Mohottalalage Punchi Banda (39) was illegally arrested and tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Dhammika Bandara of Samanalaweva Police Post in Balangoda on 26 August 2004. Due to brutal torture, the victim still suffers from severe pain on his […]