Urgent Appeals

SRI LANKA: arbitrary arrest and detention; torture; abuse of police power; collapse of the rule of law; forced disappearances ——————————R...

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[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary arrest; torture; fabricated charge; detention; deprivation of medical treatment; collapse of rule of law ——————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the forced abduction of a man from Ranala, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 23 August 2006. The fami...

RE: UP-196-2006: BANGLADESH: Government’s failure to act has put life of attempted rape victim into great danger; UP-187-2006: BANGLADESH: Repeated police threats to the victim of an attempted r...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; violence against activists; a need for effective police investigation, protection to families of the dead; collapse of rule of law ————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partners The Peoples’ vigilance committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Benaras Mahila Mazdoor Sangatahn in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that a court in Thailand has identified three army officers as responsible for the killing of 28 persons inside the Krue...

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

[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 au...

[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 au...

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

[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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information from its partner organisation, Action Committee for Civic Problems (ACCP), regarding the disappearance of two political part...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received two separate alleged rape cases; one from the Shahre Buzurg district of Badakshan province and the other from the Aliabad district of Kondo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to provide immediate protection to a witness of a custodial death case, who is receiving death threats in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information that 13-year-old Lahiru Nalaka, a student of the Sri Pada Madya Maha School, Palabaddala, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, ...

[RE: UA-216-2005: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: PHILIPPINES: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPP...

[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 au...