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BURMA: Another murderous assault in custody blamed on “cold”

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of yet another murderous assault in Burma which officials are trying to cover up. Ko Naing Oo was taken into custody by subu...

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...

UPDATE (Thailand): Please attend programme on forced disappearances in Thailand

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an announcement about a programme to be held at the National Human Rights Commission in Bangkok this Wednesday, March 28, on forced...

THAILAND: A 14-year trial and alleged police set-up

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information about a trial in Thailand that has been going on for 14 years. The trial of four men for allegedly planning to ...

PHILIPPINES: Exoneration of Palparan and his troops exposes impossibility of seeking justice in dysfunctional system of justice

On March 20, Commissioner Eligio Mallari of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced it had submitted the results of its investigation that recommend the dismissal of complaints against Maj. Gen...

CAMBODIA: The Bar Association’s charge of exorbitant fees to foreign lawyers is immoral and is obstructing the Khmer Rouge trial

In January 2007, while international judges and their Cambodian counterparts on the Khmer Rouge tribunal were working on the internal rules for the hearings, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Camb...

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...

PHILIPPINES: Economic gains do not justify strength of democracy

Not only is democracy being subverted in the Philippines, but its meaning is also misunderstood. While the country may have made economic gains in recent times, to declare them as proof of a “strong ...

UPDATE (Indonesia): House of Representative refused to deal with the cases of human rights violations in Trisakti and Semanggi

[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: 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...

CAMBODIA: Investigation of 1997 grenade attack on peaceful demonstrators and other criminal cases must be conducted and the report made public

On 30 March 1997, Sam Rainsy who is now the leader of Cambodia’s opposition party, organised and led a peaceful demonstration in front of the National Assembly in Phnom Penh. The rally was calle...

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...