PAKISTAN: Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob with the support of the ruling party

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Member of the Christian family demanding justice

Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Christian women were severely beaten and paraded naked in the village of Kasur, Punjab province, by armed men and a local landlord on the excuse that goats owned by the women entered the landlord’s fields and claimed that they damaged the standing crops. Under pressure of the henchmen of the ruling party PML-N the local police filed a case against the Christians. Conversely they have not acted upon the complaint of physical abuse filed by the Christians. The Christian community is under threat as a member of National Assembly from the ruling party PML-N is forcing the police to act against them. Read More...

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SRI LANKA: Officers of the Kalutara South Police Station beat a man's testicles with a wooden mallet

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Kopiya Waththage Don Chaminda Priyantha Kumara (32)

Urgent Appeal Case : Kopiya Waththage Don Chaminda Priyantha Kumara was accused of having stolen a mobile phone and arrested by officers of the Kalutara South Police Station. After severely beating him and forcing him to sign a statement which he was not permitted to read they implicated him in further unsolved cases. He was taken to the Additional Magistrate of Kalutara who remanded him without even seeing him as Kumara was forced to wait outside his chambers. Upon his arrival at the Remand Prison of Kalutara he fell unconscious and was transferred to the prison hospital. He was eventually released on surety bail and has to appear before the Magistrate of Kalutara on 13 September. Read More...

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SRI LANKA: Cases of torture perpetrated by officers of the Sri Lankan Police

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Open Letter : The Asian Human Rights Commission has written to the Inspector General of Police in order to bring to his notice three particularly brutal acts of torture perpetrated by his officers against innocent civilians. Read More...

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