Urgent Appeal Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning Mrs. P K Deepika Priyangika (26), of Matele District. She was a victim of maternal death due to the gross medical negligence of Doctors of Dambulla Base Hospital. Priyangika was transferred to Kandy Teaching Hospital due to her severe breakdown in health. She […]

Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the gang rape of a young woman. The rape was recorded and she was blackmailed into marriage. The perpetrators have links to a trafficking gang operating under the patronage of the Gujrat city administration and police. The modus operandi of the gang […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a girl (11) of Yaku Arun village development committee (VDC) 5 in Bhojpur District was raped in December 2016. While cooking a meal at home, her neighbor Durga Bahadur Shrestha (20) took advantage of the situation and sexually assaulted her. During the assault, […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Yogarasa Dinesh (24) of Nelliady, Point Pedro in Jaffna District. Two police officers attached to the Point Pedro Police Station opened fire, point blank, on Dinesh sitting in the front seat of his lorry on the road from Manalkadu to Point Pedro. The […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Kariyawasam Wickramarachchilage Milan Saman Wickramasinghe (21) permanent resident of Kantale Police Division. He was severely tortured by two Police Officers attached to the Kantale Police Station and two other assailants who allegedly participated in the torture following the instructions of the Police. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the abduction of a minor from the Bhutto family home. Previously, two brothers from this family were abducted, disappeared and extra-judicially killed. A video of their sister went viral on social and electronic media. She was narrating how persons from military intelligence […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Makassar Legal Aid (LBH Makassar) regarding the criminal action against 13 farmers in Bulu Ballea, Pattapang village, Tinggimoncong sub-district, Gowa regent, South Sulawesi province. The farmers are being accused of illegally occupying land by the Social Forestry and Environmental Partnerships (PSKL), despite it […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats aimed at the human rights activist, Mr. Sudesh Nandimal Silva who is fighting for the rights of the victims of the Welikada Prison Assassinations, which took placed on 9th and 10th of November 2012. Sudesh is a member of the Association […]

Dear Friends, Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats received by the Chariman of the Committee for the Protection of Rights of Prisoners – Mr. Senaka De Silva. Mr. De Silva is an Attorney-at-Law by profession and is playing a pivotal role in the protection of human rights of the prisoners […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from its partner organization in Kerala, Nervazhi, regarding the torture and violence meted out to a poor lottery ticket seller by the Thrissur police on a false charge. CASE NARRATIVE: Sajeevan is a lottery seller and his wife goes for domestic work. On […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), received information regarding the death of a patient at the Kuliyapitiya District Base Hospital. Mrs. Uragoda Appuhamilage Somawathi told the doctors and nurses at the hospital that she was allergic to antibiotics, but she was still given an antibiotic injection, which lead to her death on June […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Karna Bahadur Sarki, 42, was mercilessly beaten after he dillydallied in washing utensils after drinking alcohol at a local shop cum eatery, and reportedly urinated in a drunken state. Eatery owner Shova Karki and her son Krishna Karki thrashed Karna Bahadur so that […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from MASUM, its partner organization in West Bengal, regarding the alleged torture and custodial death of a Muslim villager by the Border Security Force Personnel in Nadia, West Bengal. CASE NARRATIVE: A 22-year-old Muslim villager, Safikul Mondal, was allegedly tortured to death by […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), a human rights organization in East Kalimantan province, about a teenager drowning in a mining hole left by the Gunung Bayan Pratama Coal Company. Reluctant to investigate the case, the local police have argued that the death falls within […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the gang rape of a constable’s daughter by influential persons. The district police of Jacobabad, Sindh province, are trying to protect the perpetrators. They have tampered with evidence and are making it difficult for the victim’s family to seek justice. At the same […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local partner about the arbitrary arrest and detention of three indigenous Papuans in Nabire, Papua province, Indonesia. Three indigenous Papuans, who are members of the National Committee for West Papua (KNPB), are illegally detained in the Nabire Police Office (Polres Nabire) without […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Makassar Legal Aid (LBH Makassar), South Sulawesi Province, regarding the attack committed by a military officer and housing security against three teenagers. They were accused of theft without any evidence or investigation, and immediately attacked, causing them to be hospitalized with serious injuries. […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. G P Rojan Asmi Rathnapala. He lodged a complaint on 20 May 2017 with the Cinnamon Garden Police Station. He owned an antique Dutch Lightning Conductor valued at Rs. 10 million and jewelry worth Rs. 550, 000–all of which were stolen by an […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Thilanga Roshan Perera who is a prisoner in New Dumbara (Bogambara) Prison, Kandy. According to Roshan, he is continuously tortured and treated inhumanly by the prison officials. Although he has complained on several occasions regarding the violations of his […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from noted writer and poet, Farhad Mazhar has disappeared and been reported missing from Dhaka in Bangladesh since the early hours of 3rd July 2017. CASE NARRATIVE: The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received updated information regarding the disappearance of Mr. Farhad Mazhar, […]