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UPDATE (Indonesia): President must take firm steps to ensure investigation of Munir’s death follows court recommendations 

[RE: UA-164-2004: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end further inquiries; UP-47...

PHILIPPINES: Brutal beating of a person by the police was not a “justifiable degree of force”

AHRC-OL-004-2006 9 March 2006 An Open Letter to the City Police Director of the General Santos City Police Office (GSCPO) Senior Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon City Police Director General Santos C...

SRI LANKA: Failure by police and other authorities to investigate the brutal assault of an elderly man 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 76-year-old Mr. K Victor Fernando by Police Constable Ratwatte of the Panadura South pol...

PHILIPPINES: Labour leader missing in San Ildefonso, Bulacan 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), a labour and human rights organisation based in Quezon City, d...

CAMBODIA: Effective measures must be taken to stop massive land grabbing

Although a group of villagers–members of an indigenous community–in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Rattanakiri were told by local authorities that their lands were reserved for ...

SRI LANKA: The elimination of corruption requires court delays to be dealt with

Two recent reports in the Sri Lankan press (see Daily Mirror, 7th March 2006) have brought to light statements made by the Director General of the Commission of Bribery and Corruption and the Inspecto...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Supreme Court granted leave to proceed in a brutal torture case filed by Chamara Nimantha 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture case of Chamara Nimantha who was brutally tortured and had fabricated charges laid against...

UPDATE (Philippines): Continued illegal detention of an arrested labour leader 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from a reliable source regarding the continued illegal detention of a labour leader, Crispin Beltran (73), follo...

INDIA: Torture, assault and intimidation used as a means of criminal investigation in Thrissur, Kerala 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations from Kerala, India. The local police continue to use torture and assault as...

UPDATE (Burma): Unnecessary delays in trial of two police accused of rape 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through staff of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) that the trial of two police officers charged with rape in central Burma i...

SRI LANKA: A pregnant woman and her husband brutally assaulted by the Rathgama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a young couple, namely Mr. D. Indika Wasantha and Mrs. Kumudini Malkanthi, by the Rathgama...

ASIA: 2nd AHRC Asian Human Rights Defender Award Presentation Ceremony for Somchai Neelaphaijit

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Hong Kong, with the cooperation of the Institute of Asian Studies and Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and the NGOs Coalition for the Pr...

SRI LANKA: Delays in courts — everyone’s karume

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-033-2006 March 6, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)  SRI LANKA: Delays in courts – everyone’s karume The expression by a High Court jud...

INDIA: Starving Musahar community face exploitation in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the acute hunger and exploitation of villagers ...

INDIA: Arbitrary arrest and extra-judicial killing by police personnel in Varanasi 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding human rights violations in...

PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of 11 persons and subsequent filing of fabricated charges against them 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that 11 persons were brutally tortured and subsequently charged with fabricated charges following...

PHILIPPINES: Two farm labourers killed; seven others harassed by the military in Tarlac, Luzon 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the killing of Allan Ibasan and his uncle Dante Salgado allegedly by military agents after their arrest on 31 January ...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Intimidation of a rape victim to withdraw the complaint against her perpetrators 

[RE: UP-82-2004: The rape case pending for over three years in magistrate court, UP-16-2004: Trial drags on for rape victim as she awaits justice, UA-33-2001: 16 year-old girl raped but no proper inve...

INDIA: Police practices continue to erode the rule of law in Varanasi 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding human rights violations in Varanasi, India, at the hands of local police officers who act with complete impuni...