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INDIA: A man allegedly tortured and implicated in false cases

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the...

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you the illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man in Akmeemana, Sri Lanka. The victim, P.K. Dammika, was il...

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher

Dear friends, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher at the school on 15 March 2007. The victim was seve...

PAKISTAN: Restore the judiciary and end militaristic tyranny in Pakistan

The legal community of Pakistan has rejected a government offer for talks, while demanding the withdrawal of the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and the formation of a natio...

ASIA: Enforced disappearances in Asia

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), and Pax Roma...

SRI LANKA: Disappearance of fifteen innocent civilians in Trincomalee and Colombo

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source (name withheld for security reasons), regarding the cases of abductions of 15 innocent civilians i...

INDIA: Man is allegedly tortured to death by police after refusing to pay bribe in West Bengal

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

BANGLADESH: National Human Rights Commission must not be a toothless tiger

On 19 March 2007, Bangladesh’s national television channel BTV announced in a news bulletin that the present government has “in principle decided to establish a National Human Rights Commi...

INDIA: Nandigram might equate India with other dictatorships in Asia

“There is anarchy and everyone is taking the law into his own hands” said the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)]. He is right! So what is the state gover...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Continuous police harassment of tortured women: Grave concern for her safety

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the security of Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa, a torture victim who was brutally attacked by the police of the Dhaka Metro...

SRI LANKA: Abuse of the powers of the AG’s Department and Criminal Investigation Bureau can turn Sri Lanka into a situation like that of the Gulag Archipelago

The last few weeks have seen the use of the powers of the Attorney General’s Department to freeze the accounts of a person associated with a leading newspaper which turned hostile to the governm...

NEPAL: Torture victim keeps facing death threats by the local police authorities in Kalikot district

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to th...

PAKISTAN: As outrageous violations take place, to keep silent on the issue of the rule of law is nothing less than betrayal

In recent weeks the Asian Human Rights Commission commented on two major violations of human rights from Pakistan. One was the severing of a young man’s penis by police officers in Larkana distr...

INDIA: Police refusing to register a charge sheet in the case of rape of a minor girl

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, India regarding...

UPDATE (India): List of several missing and injured persons of the Nandigram massacre

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

INDIA: Bastar and Nandigram, where next?

Unity in diversity is the catchphrase often used in reference to India. People of various cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds united to form a nation.  However, today India is a strange twist ...

PAKISTAN: Reinstatement of the Chief Justice is the only credible solution to the present judicial crisis

It appears that the enormous public support that the ‘non-functional’ Chief Justice Mr. Iftekhar Mohammad Choudry is receiving throughout the country has obviously surprised and shaken the...

PAKISTAN: Torture victim is threatened by a federal minister

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to draw your attention to the tragic case of Mr. Hazoor Bux Malik. As you should be aware, this case allegedly involves a vicious attack that resulted in the v...

INDIA: Police remain inactive on the alleged torture of a fisherman and an elderly widow by officers of the Border Security Force

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

UPDATE (India): Please urge the National Human Rights Commission of India to immediately send its fact-finding team to inquire about Nandigram massacre

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further details of the Nandigram massacre on 14 March 2007 (See further: UA-083-2007). The West Bengal state government confirmed 1...