Torture

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from an reliable source regarding the alleged assault of a motorbike driver who refused to be extorted by local police in Payikghachha, Khulna on 8 March 2007.  Mr. Rongon Bishwas Halder refused to pay the 100 Taka (USD 1.45) levy illegally imposed on each […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a torture victim, who had his penis severed by the Station Head Officer (SHO) of the Market police station in Larkana District, Sindh Province (See further: UA-032-2007), was allegedly forced by Mr. Ghous Bux Maher, a Federal Minister of Anti-Narcotics, to sign in an agreement […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police of Metro Police Range (MPR) of Hanumandhoka, Kathmandu. According to the information received, both of them were subjected to torture by the investigating […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shyampukur Police, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is alleged that the OC of Shyampukur Police was pressuring the victim to […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was illegally arrested by officers of Akmeemana police on 16 March 2007, he was accused of involvement in a theft case. During detention, […]

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 […]