Arbitrary arrest & detention

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by a new report from the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization, of a person named Jeewan Sharestha being detained and re-arrested by the Nepalese security forces upon his immediate release by the Supreme Court.  According to the information we have received, Jeewan […]

The latest mass killing in the south of Thailand is a direct consequence of the intentional and dramatic weakening of controls over the police and armed forces there in the last two years. Despite alarms being raised from numerous quarters, the government of Thailand has blatantly ignored the signs of impending disaster. Not only the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that political activist Mohamed Yoosuf was illegally arrested by the police in Maldives on 13 August 2004. Mr. Mohamed Yoosuf was put in solitary confinement at the Dhoonidhoo Detention Facility after seven days of his arrest and he has now been there for 53 […]

Dear friends, ———————————–<BREAKIING NEWS>———————– Just as the following urgent appeal was being issued, and after the issue of the AHRC statement (AS-37-2004: INDIA: Release illegally detained human rights defenders at once), the AHRC received the news that Mr. Henri Tiphagne and his colleagues were released from detention on a preventive detention order under section 151 […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) demands the immediate release from police detention of a group of human rights defenders in Tamil Nadu, India, who have been detained without charge since this morning.   The group, headed by Mr. Henri Tiphagne, director of People’s Watch–Tamil Nadu, was detained while engaged in a routine training programme […]

Dear friends, Three separate cases of illegal arrest and detention have come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Bharat Poudel, 25 and Dil Bhadur Baniya, 19 were both arrested by plain clothed security personnel on 16 September 2004 in Kaski District, Nepal, while secondary school student Prahalad Waiba was taken away […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the continuous attempt by the security forces to weaken the judiciary by ignoring court orders. Advocacy Forum, a local human rights NGO in Nepal, reported to the AHRC about two cases of re-arrest of individuals immediately after they were released by the security […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Heeralu Mohottalalage Punchi Banda (39) was illegally arrested and tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Dhammika Bandara of Samanalaweva Police Post in Balangoda on 26 August 2004. Due to brutal torture, the victim still suffers from severe pain on his […]

Dear friends, The AHRC has received information that the life of Mr. Man Bahadru Budhamagar (22) is in great danger. On 16 September 2004 Mr. Man Bahadru Budhamagar was illegally arrested by army personnel from the Majaha Gaon Army Barrack Mahendra Nagar, Kanchanpur District, merely because he informed his case to human rights groups. On […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that A G Ravindra (26) was assaulted and illegally detained again on 23 July 2004 by the Katupota police for making a complaint against them regarding his previous torture and arrest (see UA-63-2004). The police also filed false charges against him in court, for which […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organization in Bangladesh that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials arbitrarily tortured and arrested Sha Newaz Tito, Munir Hossain Talukdar and Ziaul Alam Dipu in the Agrabad area of Chittagong, Bangladesh on 4 August 2004. The brutal torture led to the […]

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 from Mahabir Guan Himalaya Barrack, Chauni Kathmandu in the afternoon of 28 July 2004. He was illegally detained at the army barrack even though […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the arrest, detention and torture of Wilfredo Damalerio and James Francis Defiesta, that took place on 27 June 2004 at about 9:00 am in Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Mipangi, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley, Mindanao, Philippines. On allegation of being members of the New Peoples Army, soldiers […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the four people who were re-arrested by the security force from the courtyard of the Morang District Court on 14 July 2004 have been found. According to the updated information, the four persons namely, Yek Raj Basnet, Khagendra Sambahamfe, Ram Bahadur Ingaram and […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is seeking your urgent intervention regarding torture victim, J.V. Saman Priyankara, who was arrested at his house by ten police officers on 7 July 2004. Due to the brutal assault by the police officers, Priyankara seems to have partially lost his hearing. Although higher authorities in the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal detention of Terrance Fernando from 21 February to 25 June 2004 at the Kaduruwela Police Station in Polonnaruwa. He was arrested without charge, tortured and detained for four months. After his release in June, Fernando was told that the crime he […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received two arbitrary arrest and torture cases from Nepal. According to the information we have received, Satya Narayan Bhagat (32), a member of Madheshi Liberation Front (the sister organization of CPN-Maoist), was arbitrarily arrested by the armed police on 22 March 2004 and his whereabouts is […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a case of illegal arrest, detention and severe torture has taken place in Gurutalawa, Sri Lanka. Moningal Akila Dilhara De Silva, a 17-year-old student of the St. Thomas College, Gurutalawa, was brutally arrested for no apparent reason at his home […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Satya Pal has been detained in Jail for about 24 years as an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) since he was arrested from his village of Hayatpur in Hooghly, West Bengal, India on 24 July 1979. He was arrested on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that the two arrested human rights defenders Dinesh Prasain and Usha titikchu were released unconditionally from the Anamnagar City Police Office, Kathmandu at around 2:30pm on 5 June 2004. In the morning of 4 June 2004, Dinesh Prasain, a coordinator of Collective […]