Urgent Appeals

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization in West Bengal, that a young man was found...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is very pleased to notify you that Maung Chan Thar Kyaw, on whose behalf an Urgent Appeal was issued on 23 February 2004 (UA-21-2004), was release...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that in addition to the persons listed for the Urgent Appeal sent yesterday, 23 February 2004, to secure the release of Maung Chan Thar...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source of extra-judicial killings of two young girls and one young boy, Reena Rasaili (18), Subhadra Cha...

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) that the torture victim Omar Ramalan filed five criminal charges against...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt from the Burma Lawyers’ Council (Thailand) that a 15-year-old boy was sentenced to a juvenile detention facility after witnessing...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named D.G. Athula Saman Kumara was illegally arrested on 16 February 2004 and is being tortured by the police ...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 27-year-old police constable trainee committed suicide due to the inhuman and rigorous training schedule as well a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was brutally tortured by Sub-inspector (S.I.) Silva of the Wellipenna Police Station at Kathutrara district o...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the young couple named Manoj Khanga and Parbati Raut, who had an inter-caste marriage, has been kidnapped by the gi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned with the killings of Ms. Malookan (45 years old) and Mr. Ali Dost, alias Moran Jakhrani (25 years old) in Kandhkot town, Dist...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that an attempt was made on the life of Mr. Michael Anthony Fernando when he failed to withdraw the complaints he had made ag...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned at receiving information of yet another case of discrimination against Dalits in Nepal. A number of Dalits were beaten up and forbid...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of an attack against the Christian minority in Karachi, Pakistan. On 15 January 2004, a hand grenade was thrown through ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four individuals were arbitrarily arrested on 1 February 2004 by the security forces in Bajura (west part), Nepal, ...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the arbitrary shooting of the Gampola police into a crowd, killing young Suranga Sampath. The police have further failed to conduc...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that in an arbitrary act by the government of Maharashtra, the diet for foreign prisoners has been changed, and they ar...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just learned that there was an attempt on the life of Mr. Michael Anthony Emanuel Fernando (Tony) early this morning (2 February 2004). Mr. Fe...

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Dalit teachers were transferred from Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India, on 3 December 2003, for objecting...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the murder of two social activists, Sarita and Mahesh Kant in Gaya (Bihar) on 24 January 2004. The victims were shot b...