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SRI LANKA: A young man tortured allegedly in revenge for his parent’s campaign against the illicit liquor trade 

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a 21-year-old man was tortured by police personnel attached to the Horana police station on 5 January 2006. ...

SRI LANKA: Immediate treatment and medicines required for a torture victim presently detained at the Kalutara remand prison 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another case of brutal torture of a man, D.A. Gayan Rasika (24), by the Welipenna police following his arrest on 7 Ja...

THAILAND: Challenges to justice in Thailand posed by abduction of Somchai Neelaphaijit will not disappear

This afternoon the Criminal Court in Bangkok will give its verdict on the guilt or innocence of five police charged in connection with the abduction and disappearance of human rights lawyer Somchai Ne...

UPDATE (Thailand): Verdict in case of missing human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit due on January 12 

[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing… UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case tran...

INDIA: Police shooting leaves nine protestors dead in Orissa; policeman also killed in the incident 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the police shootout at protestors in Orissa, India which h...

SRI LANKA: 20 forced disappearances reported in December 2005 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of a report by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) stating that enquiries are ongoing regarding 20 complaints o...

BANGLADESH: Gang rape of a minority woman in Bagerhat district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged gang rape of a woman belonging to a minority community by six men in Hogolpota village, Bagerhat d...

INDIA: Feudal lords attack Daliths for claiming proper wage, while police refuse to take action and pressure the victim to withdraw complaint in Uttar Pradesh, India 

INDIA: Feudal lords attack Daliths for claiming proper wage, while police refuse to take action and pressure the victim to withdraw complaint in Uttar Pradesh, India INDIA: Racial discrimination, murd...

SRI LANKA: 20 forced disappearances reported in December 2005

The BBC Sinhala Service revealed today a report by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) stating that enquiries are ongoing regarding 20 complaints of forced disappearances that are alleged...

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...

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture of a man and subsequent filing of fabricated charges against him by the Thambuththegama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man was brutally tortured by the police, who subsequently filed fabricated charges against him on 23 December 2005. T...

BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Task Force against Torture (TFT) of the Rajshahi district that two persons were killed by police fire in the Chapainawabganj...

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary detention and torture committed yet again by the Horana police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture and arbitrary detention of Nihal Kithsiri. Nihal was arrested by SI Silva and PC Bandara and taken...

SRI LANKA: Urgent need for new machines at the Anuradhapura Hospital Dialyses Unit 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your attention a situation which is ongoing at the Anuradhapura Hospital Dialyses Unit.  In an article that appeared in the D...

SRI LANKA: Defence Ministry advisor must express loyalty to Sri Lankan Constitution or resign

H M G V Kotakadeniya, an advisor to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense on police matters, is today reported as having said that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) will now be able to appoint and tr...

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...

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary shootings and recklessness by the Opanayake police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Wijethileka who was shot twice in the back by two Opanayake police officers.  The victim was ...

BANGLADESH: A man arbitrarily arrested and tortured by the Kotwali police remains detained in Barisal jail 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man, who was arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Kotwali police continues to remain in Barisla jail despi...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Attorney General withdraws criminal case against school staff who tortured a student 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of a 16-year-old student, Sahan Tharaka, by his teachers and the Assistant Principal of hi...

SRI LANKA: A man suffers hearing loss after being tortured by the Ayagama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the torture of a man, M.H. Priyantha Minipura (25), by policemen attached to the Ayagama police post following his arr...