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Dear Friends We are forwarding updated information from the National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS), Pune, regarding a case of torture and brutal beating to death of an Adivasi tribal, leading to ...

Dear Friends On 21 July, about 100 police and the Maharashtra State Farming Corporation (MSFC) security personnel destroyed about two hundreds huts of adivasis – indigenous people – and mo...

On July 21 about one hundred police and security personnel demolished houses and destroyed crops belonging to indigenous Adivasi people in Maharashtra, India. They burnt down hundreds of huts and more...

Sunil Hemechanra was arrested on the night of 23 July by the Morahahena police and his family alleged that when they visited him the next morning he was unconscious and bleeding from the nose. After s...

We bring to your attention the case of Sunil Hemachandra, a 28-year-old rubber taper who recently won a lottery but who thereafter died in the General Hospital in Colombo on July 26 from injuries rece...

SRI LANKA: Torture and custodial death of Sunil Hemachandra by police officers SRI LANKA: Murder, torture and extortion by police officers ————————̵...

INDIA: Extra-judicial killings and torture; alleged torture and killing of Ningthoujam Mangoljao and extra-judicial killings of three young boys in Manipur INDIA: Extra-judicial killings and torture &...

Court orders Release of Lalith Rajapakse – 17 May 2002 and UA-18-2002: Urgent medical help needed for torture victim – 13 May 2002) SRI LANKA: Case of Lalith Rajapakse case before the Watt...

Dear Friends Update on Tony Fernando’s case: Select Committee of Parliament- on Contempt of Court Law We are pleased to be able to give you some good news surrounding the case of Mr Michael Anth...

Dear Friends Below is an urgent appeal forwarded from the Eviction Watch regarding the forced evictions of 7,000 Untouchables in India. The Eviction Watch received the report from Rabial Mallick of th...

Dear Friends Please act on the information below, forwarded from OMCT, and write to the authorities in India, urging them to investigate, and take action against, those members of the Police in Vittuk...

Dear Friends Below is an urgent appeal we are forwarding from INSEC on behalf of Mr Ramesh SHARMA and others being subjected to extreme torture in Nepal, and we would welcome your action on their beha...

Dear Friends AHRC is informed of a severe case of torture by the military in Nepal. Besides, recently many other torture cases are reported from Nepal. Your urgent action is required and we firmly bel...

An Approach Different to The Organized Crimes Bill   10 June 2003 AS-20-2003   A Statement By the Asian Human Rights Commission – AHRC A Special Operation Unit (SOU), established under the...

Dear Friends We are pleased to update you with the following on Michael ‘Tony’ Fernando: SET ASIDE ‘PATENTLY FLAWED’ DECISION SWIFTLY UN Rappoteur Tells the Supreme Court of Sr...

Dear Friends The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation of torture and incommunicado detention in Nepal. Thank you. Urgent Appeals Desk Asian Hu...

Severe Torture and Illegal Arrest- Chandana Kumar and Ajith Shatha by Biyagama police Victims Hetti Kankanamalage Chandana Jagath Kumar (23 years old) and Ajith Shantha Kumana Peli (32 years old) Dat...

In November 2000 the Government of India set up the Committee on Reforms of the Criminal Justice System, purportedly to fairly assess and propose changes to the way criminal trials are conducted in In...

Dear Friends Below is an urgent appeal forwarded from Reporters Sans Frontières regarding death threats to journalists and correspondents. We would urge you to take action and contact the Sri Lankan ...

A Comment by the Asian Human Rights Commission – AHRC The killing of the Hamer family in Dehiwela in Sri Lanka has added to the list of horrible crimes that are taking place in the country on al...