Urgent Appeals

[RE: UP-031-2006: SRI LANKA: Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga; UA-006-2006: SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest, detention and to...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

[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...

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...

[RE: UA-107-2005: THAILAND: Police lodge defamation charges against forensic scientist over “5 bullet suicide” case; UP-135-2005: THAILAND: Defamation case dropped but police insist on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the case of a couple who were twice brutally assaulted in public by a gang led by a local council chief in Burma during Septem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, regarding ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that 19-year-old activist, Audie Lucero, was found dead in Barangay (village) Capitangan, Abucay, Bataan on 13 February 200...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the following letter from Dr. K. Manoharan of Trincomalee, whose son was one of five students murdered on 2 January 2006. As we beli...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the constant death threats made against and the harassment of a torture victim by his p...