Torture

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the very serious torture of two civilians named Rohitha Upali Liyanage and Sarath Bandara Ekanayake by the Wattegama police on 28 July 2005. According to the information we have received, the two men were brutally tortured by two police constables, who appeared drunk, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention regarding the horrific torture in Nepal of a 27-year-old young man, Lokendra Khadka. He was illegally arrested by plain-clothed security personnel from the army barracks in Sinhadarbat at his sister’s house on 24 July 2005 and inhumanly tortured until the next day.  He […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to you seeking your urgent intervention into the brutal torture and horrific killing of 21-year-old Faraz Ahmed Naveed, the son of prominent human rights activist Baseer Naveed, on 8 November 2004. Faraz was himself a peace activist who had attended peace conferences in Canada in 2000 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the torture of an 11-year-old Gayan Sanjeewa Bandara by the Kahawatte police on 11 June 2005. The police arrested the boy suspecting him being involved in a theft. However, even if he did steal the money, the police have no right to torture […]

[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) is deeply concerned by the severe torture of a man by members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Jasimuddin road, Uttara sector- 7, Dhaka and RAB–1 Office at Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 15 July 2005. The victim was taken into RAB custody because he protested against the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an urgent appeal from People’s Watch – Tamil Nadu, a human rights organization in Tamil Nadu, India, regarding a Dalit woman who was beaten and severely tortured by the Sub Inspector (SI) and Inspector of the Police (IP) at the Sethur police station in Tamil […]

[UA-38-2002: SRI LANKA: Torture victim has not been produced before the JMO even after a magistrate’s order; UP-07-2004: SRI LANKA: Michael Anthony Fernando attacked; UP-49-2003: Michael Anthony Fernando receives death threats, UP-45-2003: Michael Anthony Fernando freed and given an Asian human rights award, UP-26-2003: Update on Mr Michael Anthony Emmanuel Fernando (‘Tony’), UP-19-2003, UP-14-2003, UA-09-2003: […]

[UP-32-2004: Tissa Kumara receives further death threats; UP-28-2004: Police pressure the torture victim to withdraw case by threatening his family; UP-22-2004: Tuberculosis patient kept in solitary cell due to fabricated charges by police; UP-21-2004: The torture victim acquires tuberculosis by the direct action of the police; UA-18-2004: Severely injured torture victim need urgent medical treatment […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is reproducing below the translation of a statement made by a tuberculosis patient to Sri Lanka’s Special Investigation Unit. The statement reveals how a police officer from the Welipenna Police, knowing that the tuberculosis patient was an escaped prisoner, implicated him groundlessly on other charges. As the man had […]

[Re: UP-74-2005: SRI LANKA: Torture victim Priyankara received death threats again and urgent witness protection is required; UP-37-2004: A Kandy coordinator of National Police Commission allegedly cooperates with torture perpetrators; UP-34-2004: Priyankara brutally assaulted and arrested with no access to lawyers; UP-33-2004: Torture victim severely beaten again, forcibly taken to the police station in critical […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal torture, arbitrary arrest and illegal detention of a young journalist in Nepal. Mr Chandralal Giri was initially detained by a group of plain clothed Royal Nepal Army personnel on 31 December 2004. He then spent two weeks in army barracks being […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and death of a man in Hlaing Township, Rangoon, Burma. On 1 May 2005 30-year-old Aung Hlaing Win, was arrested by four security agents in civilian clothing. The victim was illegally detained and handed over to the military […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of Gamini Senadeera and his wife, who gave birth prematurely to a stillborn child due to police perpetrated torture on 21 April 2005 (See: UA-75-2005). According to reliable sources, the perpetrators are suspected to have carried out the torture at the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about a police attack on the students of Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India. On 11 June 2005, students belonging to the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU), Jadavpur University who had been protesting […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim, who filed a charge of torture against the officer-in-charge (OIC) and a police constable from the Horana police station, has been threatened and intimidated by them in an effort to pressure him to withdraw his complaint. The victim, who was […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another case of extremely brutal torture by the police in Thailand. According to the information available to the AHRC, Mr Urai Srineh was illegally arrested and taken to the Chonburi Provincial Police Station where he was brutally tortured on 24-25 May 2005 in […]

Writing to Suwat Liptapanlop, the Minister of Justice of Thailand on June 22, the Asian Human Rights Commission observed, “The question may well be asked as to why Thai police enjoy electrocuting testicles?” The remark was made after the May 24 gruesome torture of Urai Srineh, allegedly at the Chonburi provincial police station. Urai was […]

Much of the public prosecutor’s office in India now functions as a brokerage office where unholy deals are fixed between the police, the defence counsel and the prosecutors. Nothing worse could be expected when the prosecutors are appointed by the state at the whims and fancies of corrupt politicians after a long period of horse-trading. […]

Why has a special day been proposed for the victims of torture? What is its importance? It is hoped that this special day will initiate a movement that can highlight the gravity of torture and establish a support base for its victims. Such efforts, it is hoped, will influence civil society to reject the use […]