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UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Court trivialises assault by police officer on a woman by throwing her case out from court by a nonsensical judgment 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the High Court of Kalutara in Sri Lanka has acquitted the police officers who assaulted a woman in public. To acquit the ac...

BANGLADESH: opposition political activists beaten and arrested by the police during demonstrations and a country-wide strike 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have beaten a number of political activists and demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and peace...

INDIA: Yet another attack on human rights activist in Belwa village, Uttar Pradesh 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attack on Mr. Issuk Ali, a human rights activist associated with the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on ...

INDIA: Local police assault an innocent person; force him to carry human excreta and register a false case against him 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of an innocent person by the local police from Maleshwaramangalam, Thrissur District, Kerala state...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Threats to 14-year-old boy and his family to withdraw complaint of brutal assault by teacher 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of a 14-year-old boy, Manoj Tillakaratne, who was brutally assaulted by his physical training...

SRI LANKA: Judges’ resignations demand a response from the president

The resignation of two judges from the three-member Judicial Service Commission (JSC) continues to be a matter of topmost public interest. Comments made by numerous persons reflecting different points...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a torture victim S.A. Akila Chaturanga who was arbitrarily tortured by the Horana police on the allega...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Torture victim Tissa Kumara wins fundamental rights application at the Supreme Court

[RE: UP-023-2006: SRI LANKA: Threats made against Koraleliyanage Palitha Thissa Kumara must be dealt with immediately, UP-84-2005: The tuberculosis patient confirms Tissa Kumara’s allegation; Th...

SRI LANKA: Torture victim subjected to a TB patient spitting in his mouth wins fundamental rights application at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held on February 17, 2006 that officers of the Welipenna police station severely tortured Koralaliyanage Palitha Tissa Kumara by forcing a tuberculosis patient to spit i...

NEPAL: Human rights defenders assaulted by personnel from the Royal Nepalese Army 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault of two human rights defenders by army personnel of the Ranadal Gulma on 13 ...

INDIA: Two peaceful protestors on hunger strike chained to hospital beds 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed regarding the chaining of two peaceful protesters to hospital beds in Puri, Orissa, India. Siba Shankar Sahu and Debadutta Prad...

NEPAL: Supreme Court ruling on the Royal Commission for Corruption Control and the release of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba welcomed

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC...

INDIA: Gang rape of a tribal woman by upper caste men in Uttar Pradesh 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights group working in Uttar Prades...

SRI LANKA: Bypassing the 17th Amendment is a move towards the return to absolute power

Recent reports speak of significant reorganisation within Sri Lanka’s police department, bringing it under the control of the Secretary of Defence (SD), who will now attend to all police appoint...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Inexcusable delay in Gerald Perera’s court trial 

[RE: UP-120-2005: SRI LANKA: Trial begins in High Court relating to the torture of Gerald Perera; UP-32-2005: SRI LANKA: Please write a letter to the Attorney General to speed up Gerald Perera’s...

SRI LANKA: The JSC issue – the opposition must act to bring the issue of resignations before a parliamentary select committee

Several senior members of the opposition United National Party (UNP) have issued statements expressing concern over the resignation of two judges from the three member Judicial Service Commission and ...

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault on 14-year-old by his games teacher 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 14-year-old Manoj Tillakaratne by his physical training teacher A.D.C Renuka on 31 Janua...

INDIA: Arbitrary and continuous detention in Krishnanagar jail, West Bengal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the arbitrary detention of prisoners in Krishnanagar jail. It is...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Probe Commission has not yet started its investigation into the Chapainawabganj conflict 

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...

NEPAL: Security forces kill one and arrest more than three hundred on day of illegitimate municipal elections 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding events that took place on the day of the municipal elections in Nepal on 8 February 2006. According to our sou...