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SRI LANKA: Only the practice of telling the truth can bring back respect for Sri Lanka’s international diplomacy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-231-2006 October 4, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Only the practice of telling the truth can bring back respect for Sri Lanka’s inte...

INDIA: Trade union activists allegedly charged with a false criminal case 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, our partner organization in West Bengal, that the management of a private jute mill in West Bengal is allege...

SRI LANKA: Arrested gang of abductors may escape due process of law because of political interference from the government

Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka made a great advance during the last week when they were able to identify a group of persons who are allegedly involved in the abductions in Colombo.  On the ...

PHILIPPINES: Eight workers illegally arrested and detained; police threaten to file fabricated charges 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

INDIA: A man is illegally being detained due to police corruption

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...

PAKISTAN: Illegal ban of trade unions by the government 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan aut...

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture of a fisherman by Weligama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and brutal torture of Mr. P. Gnanasiri and the vicious assault of members of his family, by...

SRI LANKA: A schoolboy brutally assaulted by his teachers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 16-year-old schoolboy Marage Sameera Sampath Kumara, by three of his teachers, including...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP – Misunderstanding the coup

There has been a lot of misunderstanding about the September 19 coup in Thailand. Many foreign correspondents, tourist bloggers and other casual observers have written that the local market is still b...

SRI LANKA: The Sri Lankan state shows complete disregard for its international human rights obligations

(The state’s failure to implement the views and recommendations of the Human Rights Committee on individual complaints, and the failure to implement the Human Rights Committee’s and the CA...

UPDATE (Philippines): Prosecutor failed to look into victim’s torture claims; criminal charges of evidence taken by way of torture filed in court 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Repeated police threats to the attempted rape victim 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a 14-year-old girl Munira who was very nearly raped by the police officers of the Senhati camp in Khul...

CAMBODIA: Two villagers shot and several injured during the illegal forced eviction in Koh Kong 

NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...

UPDATE (Pakistan): Gang raped mother and daughter ordered to leave their home village by the police 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan aut...

UPDATE (Thailand): Illegal detention of former government ministers 

Dear friends, Further to our appeal of September 22 about the military coup in Thailand (UG-018-2006), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that according to the information p...

Sri Lanka: A man’s life is in grave danger due to torture 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention into the alleged torture of a 25 year-old man named Lalith Rajapakse from Kirigallewa by the Medawachchiya pol...

INDONESIA: Assault of a mother of four-year-old daughter by the Jakarta police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the malicious assault and public humiliation of Ms. Sugihart, a 31 year-old impoverished mother, by officers o...

SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by police after allegedly being implicated with false charges 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the severe torture of Mr. Illukumbura Mudiyanselage Mudiyanse, a 49-year-old trader, by the Thalathuoya police on 9 June ...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP–No way forward but backward

On September 27 the Bangkok Post newspaper published an article pointing to the likely shape of Thailand’s new draft interim constitution in the wake of the September 19 military coup. The inter...

SRI LANKA: Diplomacy on human rights issues seriously under threat

It was reported in the Sri Lankan press (Daily Mirror September 27, 2006 – Sri Lanka signs convention on transnational crime and child abuse) that Sri Lanka has recently ratified the Transnation...