Torture

[French] ASIE: Un argument fondamental pour l’élimination de la torture

Statement | Asia | 21-07-2012

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 […]

ASIA: The opening speech for the AAATI Meeting of Asian Parliamentarians

Statement | Asia | 20-07-2012

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 […]

[Hindi] भारत: यातना के खात्मे के लिए हांगकांग में मिलकर विचार करेंगे एशियाई सांसद

(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 […]

[Korean] 아시아: 아시아 의원들, 고문 근절을 위한 방법에 대해 논의하다

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 […]

[Burmese] ASIA: Asian Parliamentarians to discuss ways for eliminating torture

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 […]

[Sinhalese] ASIA: Asian Parliamentarians to discuss ways for eliminating torture

ආසියානු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේ නිවේදනයයි ආසියාව: වධ හිංසාව මුලිනුපුටා දැමීම සඳහා ආසියානු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීේවරුන් රැස් වීමට නියමිතයි (හොං කොං, ජූලී 20, 2012) ආසියානු රටවල් කිහිපයක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීනවරුන් එක් වී එම රටවල සෑම තැනම පාහේ ලෙස පැතිර ගොස් ඇති වධ හිංසාව සහ කෲර සහ අමානුෂික සැලකිලි භාවිතය මුලිනුපුටා දැමීම සඳහා සාකච්චා කිරීමට නියමිතය. හොං කොං හී […]

[French] ASIE: Des parlementaires asiatiques à la recherche de stratégies pour éliminer la torture

| Asia |

POUR PUBLICATION IMMEDIATE COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE AHRC-PRL-027-2012-FR Communiqué de presse de la Commission asiatique des droits humains (Hong Kong, 19 Juillet 2012) Des parlementaires de différents pays asiatiques s’apprêtent à se réunir afin d’examiner les façons de mettre fin à la torture et aux mauvais traitements dans leurs pays. Une conférence de trois jours se […]

[Filipino] ASYA: Mga mambabatas sa Asya pag-uusapan ang mga paraan para magtigil ang tortyur

(Hong Kong, Hulyo 20, 2012) Nakatakdang mag-usap sa isang pulong ang mga mambabatas mula sa iba’t ibang bansa sa Asya para pag-usapan ang mga paraan paano matigil ang malawakang praktis ng tortyur sa kani-kanilang bansa. Ang tatlong araw na pulong ay gaganapin simula bukas, Hulyo 21, sa Kowloon, Hong Kong. Ang meeting na ito ay […]

[Indonesian bahasa] ASIA: Anggota parlemen Asia mendiskusikan cara untuk menghapus penyiksaan

UNTUK PUBLIKASI SEGERA SIARAN PERS AHRC-PRL-027-2012-ID (Hong Kong, 19 Juli 2012) Anggota parlemen dari berbagai negara di Asia bangga untuk bertemu dan mendiskusikan cara-cara untuk mengakhiri praktik penyiksaan dan perlakuan tidak layak di negara mereka. Rapat yang berlangsung selama tiga hari ini akan berlangsung di Kowloon, Hong Kong, dimulai pada 21 Juli. Rapat ini merupakan […]

ASIA: Asian Parliamentarians to discuss ways for eliminating torture

(Hong Kong, July 19, 2012) Parliamentarians from several Asian countries are poised to meet and discuss ways to end the widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment in their countries. The three day meeting will take place in Kowloon, Hong Kong, starting on July 21st.  The meeting is a significant step towards the implementation of the […]

INDIA: Capital punishment by the BSF in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report from MASUM that a group of Border Security Forces (BSF) in West Bengal, India has shot dead 45-year-old agriculture labourer, Mr. Razzak Seikh on 11 June 2012. This is yet another instance of extrajudicial execution committed with impunity by the BSF, contributing to […]

INDIA: Capital punishment by the BSF in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report from MASUM that a group of Border Security Forces (BSF) in West Bengal, India has shot dead 45-year-old agriculture labourer, Mr. Razzak Seikh on 11 June 2012. This is yet another instance of extrajudicial execution committed with impunity by the BSF, contributing to […]

BURMA: Illegal detention and torture of man accused of links with armed group

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of a case of a man who is currently being held in jail in upper Burma after being accused of connections with an armed group active in the region. According to witnesses, Lahtaw Brang Shawng is an ordinary villager displaced by civil conflict who […]

INDIA: BSF brutality and technocratic deficiencies leading to hunger are equally criminal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM concerning the torture of Mr Ranjan Mondal by five BSF personnel attached to Kaharpara BSF Outpost No. 5 under 105th Battalion of BSF on 5 January 2012 Unlawful arrest, torture, caste-based discrimination and a culture of impunity amongst law enforcement and paramilitary […]

SRI LANKA: The OIC of Vanathavilluwa Police Station publicly tortures an innocent man

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Priyashantha, a married bako operator with a young daughter, was publicly and brutally assaulted by the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Vanathavilluwa Police Station for a crime that he did not commit. Mr. Priyashantha attended a musical show in which his […]

NEPAL: Torture victim receives death threat for filing a complaint

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a couple is facing death threats after filing a case under the Torture Compensation Act against a police officer in Danusha district. Ms Mukhiya filed a case at the Danusha District Court after being tortured by a police officer in relation to a […]

INDIA: Responsibility shot down at Kotteguda

Statement | India | 03-07-2012

96 hours after the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) firing in Kotteguda panchayat of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state, the union government and the state government of Chhattisgarh are on defensive mode, finding excuses to justify the police action that killed 20 villagers, of which at least five are children. The firing occurred on 30 […]

SRI LANKA: A man is arbitrarily arrested, detained and brutally tortured by the Thambuththegama Police, and threatened with further torture if he speaks out

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Meheran, a married man with two children, was arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured for a crime that he did not commit. Several police officers attached to the Criminal Branch of Thambutthegama Police Station came into Mr. Meheran’s residence at 4am, woke him […]

INDIA: Flaunting unenlightened attitudes – religious discrimination by the BSF

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM concerning the harassment and intimidation of Mr Saiful Molla and Mr Khalil Mondal by BSF personnel attached to Kaijuri BSF Camp on 9.30pm on 21 April 2012 and 3.30pm on 22 April 2012. Unlawful arrest and detention, harassment, degrading treatment, religious discrimination […]

INDIA: Another cruel and callous attack by the Border Security Forces

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM concerning the torture of 35-year-old Mr Sudarshan Mondal on 3 November 2011 in yet another case of Border Security Forces (BSF) brutality in West Bengal, India. Torture, extrajudicial killings, religious discrimination and a culture of impunity are features of everyday life for […]