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UPDATE (Bangladesh): Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in Chapainawabganj

[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...

UPDATE (Philippines): Possible irregularities in police investigation; survivor details brutal killings of peasants 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a reliable source regarding the killing of peasants in Palo, Leyte, Visayas on 21 November 2005. (Please vi...

UPDATE (Philippines): Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices begins investigation into cases of torture, activists’ killings and concerns on witness protection 

[Re: UA-251-2005: Brutal torture of a 25-year-old man over mistaken identity in General Santos City, Mindanao; UP-156-2005: Unabated killing of activists; killing and threats against witnesses exposes...

PHILIPPINES: Torture and forcible disappearance of a man in Batangas, Luzon 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the forcible disappearance of Francis Noel Desacula (35) in Batangas, Luzon on 9 January 2006. Desacula was last seen ...

UPDATE (Philippines): Investigation required into possible police involvement in labour leader’s death 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information regarding the case of Diosdado Fortuna, a labour union leader who was slain on 22 September 2005 in Barangay (vi...

UPDATE (Philippines): Investigation into the brutal torture of a man by mistaken identity begins 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in General Santos City, Mindanao has commenced its investigation into the case of ...

PHILIPPINES: Female peasant leader killed in front of her family 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another peasant leader, Ofelia Rodriguez (61), was killed allegedly by gunmen believed to be military agents in...

PHILIPPINES: Labour leader and his family face serious threats; three other labourers tortured by the military in Bulacan, Luzon 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appalled by the serious threats made against the life of labour union leader, Enrico Estarez and his family. The threats were allegedly made b...

PHILIPPINES: Claim of Philippine government to improved law enforcement far from reality

In its 2005 Accomplishment Report released on its official website, the government of the Philippines claims to have worked “to improve the operational effectiveness of law enforcement agencies&...

PHILIPPINES: A functioning and effective policing and judicial system is required if extra-judicial killings are to be properly prosecuted and prevented

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is in receipt of your letter dated 13 December 2005 detailing the Philippine government’s response to our concern about the unabated incidents of extra-judici...

GENERAL APPEAL (Philippines): A call to prohibit the practice of showing the faces of arrested suspects to the media and general public 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to voice our contempt for the ‘systematic practice’ by the police, military and government officials in the Philippines in showing the f...

UPDATE (Philippines): Two more inmates died at the General Santos City Reformatory Centre in Mindanao 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source that two more inmates, namely Vicente Abella and Mary Jane Mancera (33), have died at the General Santos...

PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of a 25-year-old man over mistaken identity in General Santos City, Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source regarding the brutal torture of an innocent man, Haron Abubakar Buisan (25), following his arrest over m...

INDIA: Illegal detention and custodial torture by West Bengal Police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, a local nongovernmental organisation about the arrest and torture of an innocent person by...

Greeting of the season from the Asian Human Rights Commission!

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) sends greetings to everyone, wishing them a Happy Christmas and New Year. We wish particularly to extend our greetings to those members of our network from aro...

UPDATE (Philippines): Local administration still avoiding responsibility in providing appropriate assistance and rehabilitation to victims of hunger

[Re: HU-10-2005: Food assistance assured to families of farmers suffering of hunger in Alabel, Sarangani province, Mindanao; Re: HA-25-2005: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat po...

PHILIPPINES: Suspicious death of an 18-year-old inmate in General Santos City, Mindanao 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from a reliable source regarding the suspicious death of an 18-year-old inmate, Arthur Esquelona at the General Santos City Ref...

PHILIPPINES: Tribute to Sister Marianni

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2005 AS-130-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Philippines: Tribute to Sister Marianni The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) joins all t...

UPDATE (Philippines): Disappeared victim’s family afforded financial assistance and trauma counseling 

[Re: FA-16-2004: Forcible disappearance of a young man in Davao City; UP-103-2005: A 13-year-old daughter of a disappeared man in Davao City suffers trauma; UP-134-2005: Social welfare department fail...

PHILIPPINES: Government must intervene if the killings of activists are to stop

On 5 December 2005, activist Cathy Alcantara was killed by unidentified armed men in Abucay, Bataan province, Luzon, Philippines. Alcantara, a mother of two children and the wife of a farmer’s organi...