Torture

(Hong Kong, August 3, 2012)  Mr. Eran Wickramaratne, a member of parliament called for elimination of widespread practice of torture in Sri Lanka as in many other countries of the region in an interview to a radio program. He hoped that all members of Sri Lankan parliament regardless of their political affiliations will come together […]

(Hong Kong, August 3, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission has welcomed the release from prison on an amnesty today of Phyo Wai Aung, a young man falsely accused, tortured and imprisoned over the April 2010 bombing, and has called for him and other freed victims of gross abuses of human rights in Burma to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an 18-year old 10th grade student, Dipen Limbu, was tortured after being accused of extorting money from local shopkeepers. He was tortured repeatedly, first in a hotel in front of which he had been arrested by three police officers in civilian clothes from […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) that the family of Mr. Majim Sardar, a victim of illegal detention and custodial torture, is on the brink of starvation. Mr. Sardar is a tribal man from district of Murshidabad in West Bengal. The victim has already lost […]

We are pleased to forward the full text and the audio of an interview with Mr. Basil Fernando of the Asian Human Rights Commission and ABC Kimberley about the meeting of the parliamentarians held in Hong Kong between July 21-24, 2012. You may listen to the audio recording of the interview here. The full text of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender and fisherfolk activist has been abducted by the local police. It is alleged 70-80 officials from the police and other agencies along with henchmen of the perpetrators attacked the Kakkapir Village, Karachi, Sindh Province at 3am early in the […]

Speech given by Abbasi Nusrat Bano, a member of the Provincial Assembly, at the meeting of Asian Parliamentarians On Sunday afternoon, (July 22), Abbasi Nusrat Bano, a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, delivered this speech to great applaus as part of the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in the Asian Alliance against Torture and […]

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2012) Parliamentarians from eight Asian states and civil society representatives, who met at Hong Kong for the first Asian parliamentarians’ meeting organised by the Asian Alliance against Torture and Illtreatment (AAATI), demanded firm actions from Asian states to end torture and ill-treatment in the region. Along with civil society representatives, dignitaries […]

Speech delivered by Pakistani Senator Saeed Ghani as part of the deliberations in the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-treatment. On Sunday afternoon, the Pakistani Senator, Saeed Ghani, affiliated with the Pakistan People’s Party delivered this speech as part of the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-treatment. […]

(हङकङ, 19 जुलाई, 2012) एशियाली देशहरुमा व्यापकरुप्मा फैलिएको यातना र अंानवियेव्यवहारलाई कसरी रोक्थाम गर्न सकिन्छ भन्ने बिषयमा छलफल गर्ने उद्देश्यले एशियाका विभिन्न देशका सांसदहरु हङकङमा मिलेर विचार विमर्श गर्दैछन । उक्त तीन दिवसीय बैठक हङकङको कौलन शहरमा  21 जुलाईबाट शुरू हुन गैरहेको छ ।  यो बैठक संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको संधि‘यातना तथा अन्य अमानवीय र अपमानजनक व्यवहार […]

यह बासिल फर्नान्डो, निदेशक नीति एवं कार्यक्रम विकास, एशियन ह्योमन राइट्स कमीशन (एएचआरसी), हांगकांग द्वारा यातना के खिलाफ एशियाई सांसदों की बैठक में 22 जुलाई 2012 को दिए गए भाषण का मूल पाठ है. यह बैठक एशियन अलायंस अगेंस्ट टॉर्चर एंड इल-ट्रीटमेंट द्वारा बुलाई गयी है. पुलिसिया यातना के अंत के लिए बुनियादी तर्क पुलिसिया […]

아시아인권위원회 성명서 아시아: 경찰고문 근절을 위한 기본 논의   영문원본 아래는 홍콩에 있는 아시아인권위원회에서 정책 및 프로그램 개발 이사를 맡고 있는  바실 페르난도씨의 연설문입니다. 이 연설문은 고문 및 가혹행위 근절을 위한 아시아 연합이 주최한 아시아 의원회의 기간 중 2012년 7월 22일에 발표된 내용입니다. 경찰 고문 근절을 위한 기본 논의 경찰 고문은 무엇을 의미하는가? 만약 우리가 […]

On Sunday afternoon, former member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly Pushpa Bhusal delivered this speech as part of the deliberations in the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-treatment. Eight Parliamentarians from a number of Asian countries and several prominent human rights activists are participating in this four day meeting. By Pushpa Bhusal, Nepal […]

The following is a speech by Basil Fernando, Director for Policy and Programme Development at the Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong. The speech was delivered at the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in Hong Kong on the 22 July 2012, as part of the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-treatment. Basic Argument for the Elimination […]

Speech by Jan Ole Haagensen, Director of International Department of Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark. The speech was delivered at the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians in Hong Kong on the 21 July 2012 as part of the Asian Alliance Against Torture and Ill-treatment. Regional Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-Treatment […]

POUR PUBLICATION IMMEDIATE COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE AHRC-STM-148-2012-FR Communiqué de presse de la Commission asiatique des droits humains Nous partageons ci-dessous le discours suivant de Basil Fernando, directeur du développement des politiques et des programmes de la Commission asiatique des droits humains basée à Hong Kong. Ce discours fut prononcé le 22 juillet 2012, au cours […]

This morning, Mr. John Clancey, the chairperson of the Asian Legal Resource Centre, delivered this speech inaugurating the deliberation of the Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians against Torture and Ill-treatment. Eight Parliamentarians from a number of Asian countries and several prominent human rights activists are participating in this three day meeting. Introductions to the Meeting of […]

(हांगकांग, 19 जुलाई, 2012) एशियाई देशों में फैली व्यापक यातना और अनुचित व्यवहार को अविलम्ब समाप्त करने के उद्देश्य से कई एशियाई देशों के सांसद हांगकांग में मिलकर विचार विमर्श करेंगे. हांगकांग शहर के कावलून इलाके में आयोजित तीन दिवसीय यह बैठक 21 जुलाई से शुरू होगी. यह बैठक ‘यातना और अन्य निर्मम, अमानवीय और […]

아시아: 아시아 의원들, 고문 근절을 위한 방법에 대해 논의하다 (홍콩, 7월 19일, 2012) 여러 아시아국가에서 온 국회의원들이 자국에 만연한 고문 및 가혹행위를 종식시키기 위한 방법에 대해 토론할 예정입니다. 3일 동안 진행될 이 회의는 7월 21일부터 시작하며, 홍콩의 콸룬에서 개최될 예정입니다. 이 회의는 유엔 고문 및 그 밖의 잔혹한, 비인도적인 또는 굴욕적인 대우나 처벌의 방지에 관한 […]

အာရွ ပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပက္သက္ၿပီး ညွင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မႈမ်ား အဆံုးသတ္ရပ္တန္႔ရန္အတြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၁၂၊ ေဟာင္ေကာင္ အာရွႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္္္မ်ားသည္ မိမိတို႔ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းတြင္ လက္ရွိ က်ယ္ျပန္႔စြာျဖစ္ေပၚေနသည့္ ညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္မွုမ်ားကို အဆံုးသတ္ရန္အလို႔ ဌာ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးရန္ အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ သံုးရက္တာေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ဇူလိုင္လ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဟာင္ေကာင္၊ ေကာင္လြန္းေဒသတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဤအစည္းအေဝးပြဲမွာ ကုလသမဂၢ ေၾကညာစာတန္း တြင္တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ အျဖစ္ျပဌာန္းထားေသာညွင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မွုႏွင့္ အျခားေသာ လူမဆန္စြာ ျပဳလုပ္မွုမ်ား (သို႔) အျပစ္ေပးမွုမ်ား ကို ဆန္႔က်င္ေသာေၾကညာစာတန္းအား အဓိက ထားၿပီး ျငင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မွုကို အဆံုးသတ္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးေသာေျခလွမ္းတခုျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လာေရာက္ပါ၀င္ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည္႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့၊ အိႏိၵယ၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ နီေပါ၊ ပါကစၥတန္၊ ဖိလပင္း ၊ သီရိလဂၤါ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္္္္္မ်ား […]