Urgent Appeals

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Korean-German scholar Song Du-yul, was freed on 21 July 2004 following the Seoul High Court’s decision to sentenc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mount Lavinia police severely assaulted numerous Bata Shoe Company workers in Colombo on 12 August 2004, to break u...

  Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that while the Calcutta High Court granted leave on 28 July 2004 to prosecute police officers allegedly re...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the murder of two teenage girls in Pakistan, Aabida and Tahmeena for visiting their grandparents witho...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to intervene in the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution date has been set for 4am tomorrow, 14 August 20...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to intervene in the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution date has been set for 4am tomorrow, 14 August 20...

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that yet another instance of child torture has been committed within a Sri Lankan police station. Two boys, 14 an...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges you to voice your support for the parents of children killed and injured in an attack on a bus by armed men, who are demanding that the poli...

Men illegally arrested and tortured by Matale Police, and falsely charged with stealing money SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest; torture; false charges ————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case of honor killing from Shikarpur district, Sindh province, Pakistan. According to the information received, on 14 July 2...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the mysterious death of 14-year-old boy R.M. Salinda Probashana allegedly on 23 June 2004. He was missing after he...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal, that a 30-year-old man named Upendra Timilsena was released ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that on 26 July 2004 the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka awarded one million rupees to the wife and three children of Mr. Lamah...

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...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE) on the exra-judicial killing of a 32-year old woman nam...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal about another attempt by the army to weaken the judiciary by ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently asks you to send a strong letter to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Dhananjoy Chatterjee! According to the exist...

SUMMARY The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that four out of five torture victims represented by missing Thai lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit remain in custody, while the police o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the illegal arrest and torture of 24 year-old Halneththi Susil Indrajith Silva by the Paiyagala Police. Silva was ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received an another torture case from Welawa, Sri Lanka. According to the information we have received, a young man named Nanumuralage Roshan...