Irom Sharmila's Unending Hunger Strike

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- The Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign, with over forty representatives met in Bhopal over the 2nd and 3rd July, 2011. Over the two days […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the President of India, Honourable Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, for her visit to the northeastern states of Nagaland and Manipur. The President visited Nagaland yesterday and will spend today and tomorrow in Manipur. During a speech at Dimapur in Nagaland the President urged the northeastern states “to put […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the President of India, Honourable Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, for her visit to the northeastern states of Nagaland and Manipur. The President visited Nagaland yesterday and will spend today and tomorrow in Manipur. During a speech at Dimapur in Nagaland the President urged the northeastern states “to put […]

(Hong Kong, May 25, 2010) Drawing inspiration from the non-violent protest of Ms. Irom Sharmila of Manipur, a group of activists, artists, journalists, writers, academics, research scholars and students organised a national campaign, the Hind Swaraj Peace March, in India.  The march is organised in support and solidarity of Sharmila’s ten-year long fast, calling upon […]

(Hong Kong, March 15, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Human Rights Alert (HRA) organised a protest rally today in Hong Kong calling upon the Government of India to initiate steps to end the culture of impunity in Manipur. Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, speaking on behalf of the AHRC in the meeting said: “The […]

(Hong Kong, 10 March, 2010) Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila alias Menghaobi, popularly known as the Iron Lady of Manipur, was released from the security ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, Manipur on the evening of March 8. Right after her release, she joined the relay hunger strike organised […]

(Hong Kong, 12 February, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is launching an online signature campaign today marking the 10th year of Sharmila’s (Iron Lady of Manipur) fast to end the culture of impunity in the Indian state of Manipur. Sharmila will celebrate her 38th birthday on 14 March this year in the small […]

Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur, Imphal, November 7, 2009 PRESS RELEASE A team of concerned citizens comprising of Dr. K. S. Subramanian IPS, formerly of the Manipur-Tripura cadre and currently visiting professor, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi; Mr. Sumit Chakravartty, Editor, Mainstream; Ms. Kavita Srivastava, National Secretary PUCL; and Ms. Vasundhara Jairath of […]

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights went jointly to Lenin Raghuvanshi for his resistance to caste-based discrimination in the country’s north and Irom Sharmila for her resistance to […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recommends to you to support the campaign launched by Ms. Irom Sharmila on 2 November 2000 when she spontaneously went on a hunger strike after the random killing of 22 innocent by-standers by the armed forces of India in Manipur. She had reached the end of her tolerance of the endemic violence, disappearances, killings of innocent people, which was made possible by the imposition of the draconian AFSPA, and the designation of Manipur as a ‘disturbed area’, where the armed forces have free play.