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PHILIPPINES: Allegation of use of torture inside police headquarters must be investigated

On May 5, 2007, a man told the media how he had been brutally tortured as part of a police investigation inside Camp Rafael Crame in Quezon City, the national headquarters of the Philippine National P...

UPDATE (Cambodia): A human rights investigator and 5 villagers are being accused of incitement to create a secession area

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the Sihanoukville governor, Say Hak, lodged a file complaint against Mr. Chhim Savuth, a human rights inves...

PHILIPPINES: Forcible abduction and disappearance of five persons including a mother of two-month-old twin

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UPDATE (Cambodia): Ratanakiri authorities halted the bulldozing and clearing after forced eviction of the 115 hectares of indigenous community land

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had previously received information that the Ratanakiri provincial governor allegedly rejected the prosecutor’s decision, made on 16 Novemb...

SRI LANKA: Lawlessness spills into mob killing of suspected thief

Mr. I. G. Pushpakumara (30) a navy officer said to be assigned to VIP security who was on home leave was beaten to death by a mob who believed that he was trying to escape after committing the theft o...

UPDATE (Thailand): Administrative Court rejects petition and allows policemen allegedly involved in the disappearance of human rights lawyer to resume duties

Dear friends, The Administrative Court in Thailand has turned down a petition challenging the decision of the Royal Thai Police and its commissioner general to reappoint the five policemen who are all...

SRI LANKA: Local gangs fabricate accusation against brutally assaulted family

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arbitrary arrest under fabricated charge of an uncle and grandfather of a 3-year-old child who was knocked...

INDIA: Alleged torture of a man by police and continuous intimidation to victim by Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists

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PAKISTAN: International community must intervene to ensure that the military regime is not allowed to impose emergency or martial law to subvert justice

The Supreme Court of Pakistan made an order yesterday (May 7) suspending the judicial panel hearing into the accusation made by the military regime against the country’s suspended Chief Justice ...

SRI LANKA: Failure to perform state duties to investigate allegations of abductions and disappearances through the machinery of the investigating branch of the police; neglect of complaints made to state authorities

The Asian Human Rights Commission sent an Urgent Appeal on February 26, 2007 (UA-063-2007) to several government authorities to which a reply was received on May 7, 2007 from you as the Additional Sec...

PHILIPPINES: Husband of a political activist shot dead in Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that the husband of a political activist, Usman Ali (40), was shot dead at a public market in Pikit, North Cotabato ...

CAMBODIA: A local journalist received public death threat from an army general

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 2 May 2007 at around 5:30 pm, a local journalist named Chim Chenda, who works for Kampuchea Thmei (New Cambodia)...

UPDATE (Thailand): Details of more alleged killings by police in Kalasin

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) previously reported on an alleged killing of a young man in Kalasin, northeast Thailand, by the police (UA-136-2007). We have so far documented o...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Compensation granted to the torture victim by the Supreme Court while criminal prosecution against perpetrators delayed

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received update information regarding the alleged brutal assault of Mr. Dhanawardena by inmates and trainees of the police training college i...

BURMA: Two men jailed for allegedly possessing video of army wedding

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about two men in Burma who have been imprisoned for allegedly possessing videos showing the wedding of the daug...

SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and fabrication of charges by Wattegama Police

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you about an alleged torture case by police officers of Wattegama Police Station. P.K.W. Wijesinghe was summoned to the polic...

BANGLADESH: Alleged serious intimidation by the Rapid Action Battalion in Rajshahi against a human rights defender

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged serious threats and intimidation against a human rights defender and journa...

PAKISTAN: Brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the ruling party members

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the cou...

BANGLADESH: Human Rights Defender is seriously threatened and intimidated by Navy

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a local human rights group ODHIKAR that their acting director, Mr. ASM Nasiruddin Elan, had been serious...

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Muslim weavers’ community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh faces starvation and lack of social welfare

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