Torture

[Re: UA-50-2003: Torture of 14 year old child by police officers, UP-37-2003: The family of 14-year-old torture victim threatened by the police and a local politician; UP-47-2003: SRI LANKA: Torture victim’s family flees home due to police threats; UP-12-2005: SRI LANKA: Death threats to a torture victim’s family from accused police officers] ———————————————————- SRI LANKA: […]

The tenure of office of Chandra Fernando as the IGP ended last week.  Throughout his tenure the Asian Human Rights Commission has pointed out the failure of leadership on his part to lift up the police service from its legacy of the use of torture as the primary means of criminal investigation, the use of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest, detention and subsequent brutal torture of Mr. Suddage Sirisena, a fifty-year-old rural farmer on 24 August 2006 the Kekirawa police in Anuradhapura district, Anuradhapura division, Sri Lanka; and the inexcusable coercion tactics employed by the accused officers in preventing the […]

[Re: UA-244-2006: INDIA: BSF officers kill two victims, including a 17-year-old boy; UP-156-2006: INDIA: Two BSF constables dismissed without facing legal action for the killing and UA-283-2006: INDIA: Jalangi police continues unabated brutality in Murshidabad district of West Bengal] ———————————————————- INDIA: Extra-judicial killings; assault; violation of the right to life; corruption; collapse of rule of […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Kerala state, India that a person died from custodial torture since he refused to pay bribes to the police officers. Mr. Saju, a private bus conductor was arrested by the police officers from Kunnathunadu police station. On 8 September 2006 Saju was detained […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and brutal torture of Mr. P. Gnanasiri and the vicious assault of members of his family, by officers of the Weligama police in Matara district II, Matara division, Sri Lanka on 13 September 2006. Mr. Gnanasiri, a fisherman in the […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Philippine authorities are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention into the alleged torture of a 25 year-old man named Lalith Rajapakse from Kirigallewa by the Medawachchiya police and Anuradhapura prison officials in Anuradhapura district, Anuradhapura division, Sri Lanka on 21 September 2006. The victim’s condition become very critical and now is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the malicious assault and public humiliation of Ms. Sugihart, a 31 year-old impoverished mother, by officers of the Municipal Administrative Police Unit (SATPOL PP) at the Menteng District Office in Jakarta, Indonesia on 5 September 2006. Ms. Sugiharti was arrested for a petty […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the severe torture of Mr. Illukumbura Mudiyanselage Mudiyanse, a 49-year-old trader, by the Thalathuoya police on 9 June 2006. Due to torture, the victim received considerable injuries over most parts of his body and suffered complete loss of hearing in his left […]

[RE: UP-181-2006: BANGLADESH: Santa’s family facing harassment by the Wazirpur police in Barisal; UP-114-2006: Safety measures must be taken to ensure the lives of Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband; UP-112-2006: Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators; UP-101-2006: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096-2006: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed Judicial Probe Commission report; UP-083-2006: Police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged abduction, brutal torture and murder of a 24-year-old man, Mr. Santa Bahadur BK, by unidentified members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), in Ishaneshor Village Development Committee (VDC)-1 in Lamjung District, on the 6th September 2006. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding two corresponding cases of subsequent torture of persons by provincial sectors of the Indonesian Police and corrections officers. In neither case has action been taken against the alleged perpetrators despite complaints by the victims. On 16 August 2006, Mr. Rudi Sebastian was arrested […]

RE: UP-114-2006: BANGLADESH: Safety measures must be taken to ensure the lives of Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband; UP-112-2006: Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators; UP-101-2006: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096-2006: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed Judicial Probe Commission report; UP-083-2006: Police defy High Court order by continuing to make threats; UP-062-2006: Harassment […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are attached below […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Uday Chakravarti, a journalist of the Bangla national daily newspaper The Sangbad, was beaten by a group of persons working as police informers, allegedly due to his articles about the land grabbing and extortion committed by them with the assistance of the […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to express our deep concern over the continuing detention of Mr. Yengkokpam Langamba Meitei alias Thabi, the Publicity Secretary of the Threatened Indigenous People’s Society (TIPS), Manipur and Mr. Leitangthem Umakanta Meitei, the Secretary General of the TIPS. Mr. Umakanta is a member of the […]

Maina Sunawar was 15 years old when members of the Nepalese armed forces arbitrarily arrested her. Since this date – February 17, 2004 – she has disappeared. All the evidence indicates that she was tortured to death by members of the military, who have since sought to deny her arrest and cover up her death. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged brutal torture of a 50 year-old farmer by allegedly intoxicated Kekirawa police officers on 24 August 2006, demonstrating yet another example of the complete and total breakdown of Sri Lanka’s policing system. At around 11:00am on August 24, Suddage Sirisena […]