Torture

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 […]

[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. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the security of Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa, a torture victim who was brutally attacked by the police of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on 12 March 2006. According to the latest information, Mrs. Santa has been implicated with fabricated criminal charges by both […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to the present. The victim was allegedly arrested by the police members of District Police Office (DPO), Kalikot three times on the charge of being suspect […]

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest and assault of a man by the Ratnapura police. According to the information we have received from our local partner organization in Sri Lanka, he has been arrested twice on fabricated charges including this time and been harassed by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that a number of students of the University of Jaffna have been murdered, arbitrarily arrested and disappeared since August 2006. Due to the security situation some classes had been cancelled until 19 February 2007. It has been allegedly reported that military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Neervazhi based in Thrissur, Kerala state that an under trial prisoner was tortured to death while in remand custody. The AHRC is informed that the victim Mr. Shaji complained to the magistrate that he was subjected to torture in custody. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No. 6 of the Char Fashion Municipality in Bhola district, allegedly caused by a brutal assault by naval officers on 20 February 2007. Mr. Dulal was […]

[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) has received updated information that the government authorities have started an investigation into the case of two torture victims, Mr. Muzibur Rahman and Mr. Waheduzzaman, who were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the army in Khulna district (For original urgent appeals, see: UP-019-2007; UP-015-2007; UP-011-2007; UA-367-2006; UP-232-2006). Over a two day […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal, India regarding the brutal torture of a 21 year-old man named Mr. Ramesh Pramanik near the No-2 Border Outpost at Dayarampur village in Murshidabad, West Bengal on 11 December 2006.  Mr. Ramesh was allegedly beaten […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about an alleged arbitrary arrest and severe torture of a 16-year-old boy by police officers in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka. The victim, Kapu Kankanamalage Mahesh Maduranga, was severely beaten by police officers in order to force him to confess to the theft of a cassette […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal torture and sexual abuse of Mr. Hartoyo, an NGO worker, and his partner Bobby while in detention, by the Banda Raya police between 22-23 January 2007 in Banda Aceh. The alleged underlying motive behind the detention, torture and sexual abuse […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that the Magistrate of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court has rejected the bail petition of Mr. Jafor Mollah on 26 February 2007. Mr. Jafor has made several death threats to Mr. Atinur, the husband of torture victim, Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source of the alleged assault and arbitrary arrest of a public bus driver in Dhaka on 23 January 2007. We have been informed that a Traffic Police Sergeant stopped the victim’s bus when he was stopping to allow a woman to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding an alleged brutal torture of a young man by the Bally police in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 14 February 2007. The victim was accused of being involved in the disappearance of his wife […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged illegal arrest and torture of a farmer in Quezon. On 4 April 2006, Mr. Fernando Tawagon was allegedly arrested without warrant by the Army’s 76th Infantry Battalion in Barangay (village) Biga, Gumaca, Quezon. He was alleged to be a member […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your immediate intervention to ensure the security of torture victim Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband Mr. Atinur Rahrman, who are under severe death threats now. Mr. Atinur Rahrman is also a lawyer in his wife’s case. We were informed that the criminal who […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the extra-judicial killing of a 23 year-old business administration student named Farly Alcantara in front of his college in Daet at Camarines Norte, Philippines on February 16, 2007.  Alcantara was an active member of the League of Filipino Students (LFS), the president of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding an alleged brutal torture of a man by the Kotwali police in Bogra district on 25-26 January 2007. The victim is currently detained in the Bogra district jail after being forced to falsely confess to a crime due to the severe […]