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INDIA: Alleged rape and murder of a young woman in West Bengal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village,...

UPDATE (Thailand): Department of Special Investigation fails to bring justice to Charoen Wat-aksorn case 

[Re: UA-76-2004: THAILAND: A prominent environmentalist Charoen Wat-aksorn murdered and an independent investigation required; UP-40-2004: THAILAND: Arrest warrant issued against a local politician fo...

PHILIPPINES: Witness protection key to addressing unrestrained killings in Philippines

It is becoming increasingly obvious that getting away with murder in the Philippines is made easy by the absence of any functioning witness protection scheme. The lack of witnesses also becomes a conv...

INDIA: Death in custody under mysterious circumstances 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about another custodial death of a man at the Santaragacchi Gove...

SRI LANKA: Custodial death of a man who was allegedly tortured by the Ratgama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned by the alleged torture and death of Kosma Sumansiri by the Ratgama police. He was arrested with three of his friends  by the Ratga...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Inquiry into the torture of Bernard Janapriya and charges laid against the perpetrators are insufficient 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of Bernard Janapriyana (See further: UA-63-2005). In a letter to the AHRC dated 25 May 20...

BURMA: Court refuses to act on death due to torture in custody 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and death of a man in Hlaing Township, Rangoon, Burma. On 1 May 2005 30-year-old...

INDONESIA: Attorney general must take up responsibility to prosecute criminals in Indonesia

The last decade has seen numerous gross human rights violations in Indonesia that have been widely reported by local activists as well as international groups. Of particular concern has been the lack ...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Police torturers who caused a woman’s loss of her unborn child must be brought to justice 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture of Gamini Senadeera and his wife, who gave birth prematurely to a stillborn child due to p...

INDIA: Police attack on students of Jadavpur University 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about a police attack on the students of Jadavpur University, Wes...

INDIA: Entire village community neglected and facing starvation in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) regarding the appalling starvation situation in the South 24 Parganas Dist...

NEPAL: Trauma treatment should be integral to Nepal’s human rights monitoring operation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-72-2005 June 27, 2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Trauma treatment should be integral to Nepal’s human rights monitoring operation Torture, e...

NEPAL: Restriction of movement of activists can prevent human rights monitoring 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the restriction of human rights defenders and political atavists in Nepal. Freedom of m...

UPDATE (Philippines): Witnesses of activists’ killings in Luzon refused to give evidence fearing their security 

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City, UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed a...

THAILAND: Police lodge defamation charges against forensic scientist over “5 bullet suicide” case 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is outraged that five Thai police officers have filed defamation complaints against a senior forensic scientist and government bureaucrat followi...

SRI LANKA: Torture victim fears for his life following threats and intimidation by Horana police to withdraw his case against them 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a torture victim, who filed a charge of torture against the officer-in-charge (OIC) and a police constable from the Horana...

PAKISTAN: Arrest of activist’s wife over fabricated charges 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding alleged fabricated charges laid against a human rights activists, who is a member of th...

THAILAND: Extremely brutal torture of a man at Chonburi Provincial Police Station 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another case of extremely brutal torture by the police in Thailand. According to the information available to the AHRC, Mr...

THAILAND: Growing repugnance of barbaric torture in Thailand

Writing to Suwat Liptapanlop, the Minister of Justice of Thailand on June 22, the Asian Human Rights Commission observed, “The question may well be asked as to why Thai police enjoy electrocutin...

INDIA: Failure of the justice system means impunity for torturers

Much of the public prosecutor’s office in India now functions as a brokerage office where unholy deals are fixed between the police, the defence counsel and the prosecutors. Nothing worse could be ex...