Torture

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a police was arrested on 19 February 2008 and allegedly tortured and ill treated in police custody in Kep seaside town, Cambodia. He was confined to a windowless cell and shackled at night. Despite having wounds on his body, he has been denied access […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death sentence of a man from minority community, who is due to be executed on 12 March 2008. He was charged with murder however, he was allegedly severely tortured after the illegal arrest. It is also alleged that he was not provided […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three senior police officers, who are responsible for the brutal assault of a policeman, were simply transferred to another police post without facing any departmental or legal action. Meanwhile, in its response regarding the case, the Police Human Rights Cell failed to provide […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man and false charges being made against him and his family members by the Kolonne police on 16 December 2007. The police severely assaulted him at the time of arrest and then arbitrarily arrested other family members who […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that despite calls from human rights defenders and organisations across Asia and around the world, still the justice ministry in Thailand has not reversed its decision to transfer responsibility for protection of witnesses in human rights cases under its control back to the police. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police allegedly assaulted two men, which caused that one’s tooth to be broken, and detained them in Ahangama police station in Sri Lanka on 5 January 2008. Later, police allegedly fabricated charges against them. They were released on bail. However, no investigation has […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police in Kirisakor district allegedly beat a young man with a rifle on 7 February 2008. Police took him to the district police station after the arrest. Even though he lost consciousness due to the assault, he was not provided medical treatment and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture, by the Police, of a 16-year-old boy by the Sooriyawewa police on 20 January 2008 in Sri Lanka. He was tortured into confessing to a crime, which he has since denied. He was also reportedly tortured by his guards at […]

Dear friends, The  Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mirihana Special Investigation Unit arbitrarily arrested and detained a man on 15 January 2008 in Sri Lanka. On the basis of a report from a third party, the police allegedly assaulted him to extract his confession, threatening him not to report the torture […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a man by the Tissamaharama police on 29 December 2007. The police severely assaulted him before taking him to hospital. At the police station, the police forced him to sign a statement and later falsely charged him with possession of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that two activists from Pakistan arrested in London on 4 December 2007 may be threatened with deportation. They are being held and charged allegedly for conspiring to incite another person to commit acts of terrorism. Their friends and colleagues are worried that the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Kandy police have been threatening a man to leave the area when he returned to Kandy in 2007 since last September. The man was a torture victim and released from the prison due to lots of intervention in 2000. After his return to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the executive magistrate in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh assaulting journalists. It is reported that magistrate D. P. Singh assaulted the journalists at the Cantonment Police Station, along with police officers. The officer assaulted […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from reliable sources that four police officers tortured and robbed a keeper of a Buddhist Centre, Muon Ham (42), on 8 December 2007 in Sre Ampil village, Chhoeu Teal commune, Kien Svay district. The policemen, armed with assault rifles and electric batons, stripped him of […]

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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the two men illegally arrested and detained by soldiers and paramilitary group have already been released in separate occasions. The victims, Ruel Munasque and Luicito Bustamante, were freed from soldier’s custody after the court granted the petition by their relatives’ for judicial protection. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a casual labourer and his friend were brutally assaulted with a copper cable by the Dodangoda Police on 31 October 2007. They were accused of cutting electrical wires, a charge they denied. The Police then allegedly fabricated a case against them in the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that an activist, Ruel Munasque, who was forcibly taken by soldiers on 24 October 2007, has disappeared while in their custody. Ruel was together with Roger Morales, a farmer, when they were taken by soldiers at a checkpoint in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged attack on a student on 10 October 2007. He is the brother of a torture victim who was earlier tortured by the Vavuniya police (See further: UA-183-2007). His brother, the torture victim, has stayed in another place for security reasons. He is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture and fabrication of charges, of a man by the Matale police in Sri Lanka, on 26 February 2007. He was brutally kicked and beaten by the police and fabricated charges were laid against him. Despite making a complaint to the Human […]