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SRI LANKA: Casual Killings: Seven People Shot Dead by Police within 70 Days

Within the first 70 days of the year 2004, the number of people shot dead by the police in Sri Lanka came to seven ¡V an average of one person every 10 days. All of these shootings have taken place d...

INDIA: Two social workers arrested by the Jangipara Police on false charges of committing offences against the state

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of the arbitrary arrest of two persons named Mr. Ajit Bhar and Mr. Bablu Das by the police from Jangipara Police Station...

UPDATE (India): The family of the victim who died under police custody suffers from police inaction

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned with the police inaction regarding the custodial death of Mr. Hafeel at the Perumbadappu Police Station in Malappuram District, Keral...

NEPAL: Rape of two blind girls by the hostel warden and danger of police inaction

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned of repeated rape and sexual abuse of two blind girl students by the hostel warden at the Shree Janata Higher Secondary School...

PAKISTAN: A young woman killed by her husband on the pretext of honour killing

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 30-year-old woman named Ms. Hidayat was allegedly killed by her husband, Mr. Momin Ali Mahar in Dal village, Lak...

PAKISTAN: Who is celebrating International Women’s Day in Pakistan?

A Statement by Asian Human Rights Commission Who is celebrating International Women’s Day in Pakistan? On 5 February 2004, Mr Bhooro Subzoai together with an accomplice first shot dead his aunt,...

INDIA: Custodial torture and death of Mr. Hafeel by the police at the Perumbadappu Police Station in Kerala

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Mr. Hafeel (24) was arbitrarily arrested on 24 February 2004 by officers from the Perumbadappu Police S...

INDIA: Forced work and assault of 6 young men by the Delhi police

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that officers from the Chittaranjan Park Police Station in Delhi picked up six young men aged betw...

SRI LANKA: A young man assaulted and shot dead by the police in the course of investigation

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Bellanavithanage Sanath Yasaratne was allegedly assaulted and shot by the police from the the Baduraliy...

INDIA: Custodial death of a young man in West Bengal

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization in West Bengal, that a young man was found...

INDIA: Custodial deaths in West Bengal and India’s refusal to ratify the Convention against Torture

This February, the families of Nemai Ghosh and Anesh Das were compensated 100,000 Rupees (US$2200) each by the government of West Bengal for their deaths while under police custody at the Malda Magist...

NEPAL: Three young persons shot dead by security personnel and a girl among the victims were gang-raped before being killed in Pokahari Chauri-4, Kavre District

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source of extra-judicial killings of two young girls and one young boy, Reena Rasaili (18), Subhadra Cha...

SRI LANKA: A man illegally arrested and being tortured by the police at Katugastota Police Station in Kandy

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named D.G. Athula Saman Kumara was illegally arrested on 16 February 2004 and is being tortured by the police ...

INDIA: A 27-year-old police constable trainee committed suicide due to inhuman training and torture at Kerala Armed Police Battalion

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 27-year-old police constable trainee committed suicide due to the inhuman and rigorous training schedule as well a...

SRI LANKA: Severely injured torture victim need urgent medical treatment

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was brutally tortured by Sub-inspector (S.I.) Silva of the Wellipenna Police Station at Kathutrara district o...

NEPAL: The Dalit community in Saptari district was attacked due to an inter-caste marriage and the couple was kidnapped

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the young couple named Manoj Khanga and Parbati Raut, who had an inter-caste marriage, has been kidnapped by the gi...

PAKISTAN: A 45-year-old lady and a 25-year-old man killed on the pretext of honour killing

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned with the killings of Ms. Malookan (45 years old) and Mr. Ali Dost, alias Moran Jakhrani (25 years old) in Kandhkot town, Dist...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Michael Anthony Fernando is provided no protection even after an attempt on his life

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that an attempt was made on the life of Mr. Michael Anthony Fernando when he failed to withdraw the complaints he had made ag...

NEPAL: Dalits beaten up and forbidden to enter village temple

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned at receiving information of yet another case of discrimination against Dalits in Nepal. A number of Dalits were beaten up and forbid...

PAKISTAN: Attack on the Bible Society in Karachi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of an attack against the Christian minority in Karachi, Pakistan. On 15 January 2004, a hand grenade was thrown through ...