Torture

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of police torture of Gyan Bahadur Balami (Gyanu) and Makar Bahadur Gharti Magar (Iman) and of the police torture and sexual abuse of Hermin Ratu Lama following their arrest under charges of drug smuggling and robbery on 31 October and […]

The latest news by the WikiLeaks claims that India has systematically used torture to extract confessions and has allowed its armed forces to resort to brutal human rights abuses like extrajudicial executions and disappearances to instil fear, and thus control the population in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The report asserts that the International […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the possible implications of President Benigno Aquino III’s order of December 10, 2010 to the Department of Justice (DoJ) instructing them to withdraw the charges against the Morong 43. The accused were 43 individuals, including doctors, nurses, grassroots community health workers. They were illegally arrested […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from a group of Cambodia NGOs. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Press Release from a group of Cambodian NGOs forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Cambodia before the Committee Against Torture: Media Release […]

Dear friends, An Indigenous Papuan man, Tuanliwor Kiwo was arbitrarily detained and tortured in May 2010 by the Indonesian military. Mr. Kiwo survived by escaping two days after being detained. Despite the significant international attention that the case received after a video of the torture was published by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in October 2010, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the repeated beatings and torture inflicted by a police team from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD), Hanumandhoka police station upon Gyan Bahadur Balami, Makar Bahadur Gharti Magar and Hermin Ratu Lama on 31 October and 1 November 2010. It is also alleged […]

(Hong Kong, November 30, 2010)  Assassination of a torture victim and the death of criminal justice in Sri Lanka  On November 22, 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give evidence in the High Court of Negombo against six police officers from the Wattala Police Station who brutally tortured him, […]

(Hong Kong, November 26, 2010) Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture at Beruwella Police Station We produce below the translation from the original Sinhala YouTube presentation of the testimony of Samarasinhage Psupakumara.  S.I. Udayanga of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Beruwella police asked a driver to go for a hire. The driver is Samarasinhage Psupakumara […]

Assassination of a torture victim and the death of criminal justice in Sri Lanka On the 22nd November 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give evidence in the High Court of Negombo against six police officers from the Wattala Police Station who brutally tortured him, was shot while traveling […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained a copy of an Investigation Report released by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) regional office III, exonerating soldiers who were accused of illegally arresting, detaining and torturing five indigenous people in Barangay (village) Dikapinisan, San Luis, Aurora province in December 2009. The AHRC questions the logic, merit and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Cotabato City, has recommended the release of “immediate financial assistance” to a torture victim whose complaint of torture they had investigated. The CHR investigators also affirmed the accounts of torture the victim […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of Som Bahadur Barai, a 49 year old man, while in the custody of the Area Police Office, Ratnanagar, Chitwan District, on 22 September 2010. The police claimed that the victim hanged himself in his cell a few hours after his […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman, who received a stay order from court over a dispute on ownership of her house, was picked up by policemen and their informers and taken to a private detention centre where she was gang raped for more than 50 days. The […]

An Open Letter to President Obama from the Asian Human Rights Commission President Obama, White House Washington D.C. USA For the attention of President Barack Obama, INDONESIA: Serious human rights abuses in Papua, Indonesia need your attention The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a human rights non-governmental organisation, calls upon your good offices […]

Hong Kong, November 2, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that the four men, three of whom were illegally arrested and detained, were acquitted by a local court from two charges of illegal possession of explosives. The court found that the cases laid against them “exhibits a straightforward violation […]

ISLAMABAD Oct 31: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed concern over non-arrest of officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) who ruthlessly tortured and inflected more than 31 injurers on various parts of the body of Din TV channel’s Faisal Shoukat Ali Rajput and demanded immediate action against all those involved in […]

Since October 28, 2010, the Asian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) website has been subjected to a concerted “cyber-attack” in which computers with hidden locations and identities have been used to flood the website’s servers with fake requests, in order to overload it. This has resulted in visitors not being able to access the website’s content […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Justice for Peace Foundation, Thailand, concerning a criminal case that police have brought against a victim of alleged torture who was represented by human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, whom police abducted and killed in 2004. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- […]

(Hong Kong, October 27, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Wednesday launched a new campaign webpage on the case of Phyo Wai Aung, who is being unjustly tried over a bombing in Burma during April over which he denies any involvement.  Police officers tortured Phyo Wai Aung severely for more than a week to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the Gosairhat Police of Shariatpur district, around 120 kilometers far from Dhaka, have brutally tortured a man to death. The relatives and witnesses allege that the body of the torture victim, Mr. Mokles Matbor, bore several marks from the injuries sustained. The police had […]