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Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

Many people across Asia are frustrated by the widespread lack of respect for human rights in their countries. Some may be unhappy about the limitations on the freedom of expression or restrictions on privacy, while some are affected by police brutality and military killings. Many others are frustrated with the absence of rights on labour issues, the environment, gender and the like. Yet the expression of this frustration tends to stay firmly in the private sphere. People complain among friends and family and within their social circles, but often on a low profile basis. This kind of public discourse is not usually an effective measure of the situation in a country because it is so hard to monitor. Though the media may cover the issues in a broad manner they rarely broadcast the private fears and anxieties of the average person. And along with censorship – a common blight in Asia – there is also often a conscious attempt in the media to reflect a positive or at least sober mood at home, where expressions of domestic malcontent are discouraged as unfashionably unpatriotic. Talking about issues like torture is rarely encouraged in the public realm. There may also be unwritten, possibly unconscious social taboos that stop the public reflection of private grievances. Where authoritarian control is tight, sophisticated strategies are put into play by equally sophisticated media practices to keep complaints out of the public space, sometimes very subtly. In other places an inner consensus is influenced by the privileged section of a society, which can control social expression of those less fortunate. Moral and ethical qualms can also be an obstacle. In this way, causes for complaint go unaddressed, un-discussed and unresolved and oppression in its many forms, self perpetuates. For any action to arise out of private frustration, people need ways to get these issues into the public sphere.

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PHILIPPINES: Another activist in “liquidation list” killed; two others survive attempts on their lives in separate incidents

Urgent Appeal Case | Philippines | | November 9, 2006

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings, violence against activist; impartial and independent investigation; alleged involvement by military in killings; collapse of rule of law ———R...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Court dismissed Santa’s another case against the policemen

Urgent Appeal Update | Bangladesh | | November 8, 2006

[RE: UP-183-2006: BANGLADESH: Santa’s life is under extreme threat of death now; UP-181-2006:Santas family facing harassment by the Wazirpur police in Barisal; UP-114-2006: Safety measures mus...

BANGLADESH: A man arbitrarily arrested and intimidated by the Detective Branch Police of Khulna

Urgent Appeal Case | Bangladesh | | November 8, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the arbitrary arrest of a businessman by the Detective Branch (DB) Police of Khulna district from his house at Paikgachha to...

SRI LANKA: Innocent man victimised by illegal arrest and detention due to unlawful police malpractice of misrepresenting suspect’s identity in court

Urgent Appeal Case | Sri Lanka | | November 8, 2006

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest and detention; poor practice of verifying identify of suspect in court; un-rule of law ————————————- D...

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Urgent Appeals

Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

PHILIPPINES: Another activist in “liquidation list” killed; two others survive attempts on their lives in separate incidents

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Court dismissed Santa’s another case against the policemen

BANGLADESH: A man arbitrarily arrested and intimidated by the Detective Branch Police of Khulna

SRI LANKA: Innocent man victimised by illegal arrest and detention due to unlawful police malpractice of misrepresenting suspect’s identity in court

CAMBODIA: Two men seriously assaulted and another man shot by men alleged to be police officers

INDIA: Illegal detention of a commoner is shrouded in allegations of corruption and the fabrication of case records

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Improper and biased manner of police inquiry into a torture case

PHILIPPINES: Disappearance of four persons; one of two torture victims found dead in separate incidents in Mindanao

NEPAL: Forced disappearance of Des Raj Chauhan by members of the security forces

PHILIPPINES: Policemen allegedly harass and illegally search a convent of sisters after forced entry

UPDATE (Thailand): Senior police officer must be investigated

SRI LANKA: Malicious assault of a 16-year-old girl by her school principal

NEPAL: Extra-judicial killing of 32-year-old Bacha Ram Chaudari by the police

CAMBODIA: Man seriously injured after allegedly being tortured by police and military officers

INDIA: 14 year-old girl allegedly kidnapped and trafficked by state protected gangsters

INDIA: Alleged police inaction into dowry death of a woman

BURMA: Two men illegally arrested & jailed for petition to government

SRI LANKA: Alleged rape attempt of a woman by a policeman

INDONESIA: Local farmer brutally gunned down by brigadier officers in Central Java

UPDATE (Thailand): Please attend important event on threats to civil rights under military regime

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