Extrajudicial killings

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the killing of a man, Udaya Kumara, by policemen attached to the Mount Lavinia police station on 19 December 2005. After the victim’s death, the policemen involved allegedly fabricated stories to justify Udaya’s death. The police claimed that Udaya tried to throw a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the shocking beating to death of two marine officers on 21 September 2005 and the subsequent arrest of 12?villagers in Muang district, Narathiwat province, southern Thailand. The marine officers were reportedly involved in a shooting incident that killed two villagers and wounded four […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the arrest, torture and subsequent death of a handicapped man in police custody at Harora police station, North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. On 8 August 1999, Abdul Hamid Molla was arrested by the police without any arrest memo, under […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was arbitrarily arrested and detained then tortured and subsequently killed by the police attached to the Mohammadpur police station in Dhaka. The police arrested the man after suspecting him of involvement in a theft case, which took place in a jewelers […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

[RE: UP-75-2005: Witnesses of activists’ killings in Luzon refuse to give evidence fearing their security UP-106-2005: Another human rights lawyer killed; wounded priest died while being treated at a hospital; UA-216-2005: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead] —————————————————————————– UP-156-2005: PHILIPPINES: Unabated killing […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a 43-year-old farmer from Boryeong of South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, who died from a cerebral hemorrhage due to a skull fracture on 24 November 2005 after being beaten by riot police during a rally in Seoul on November 15. The rally was […]

[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005: Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two others wounded, UP-28-2005: Attempt on the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the indiscriminate firing by the Border Security Force (BSF) in Muradpur village and Biswaspura, Jalangi Police station, Murshidabad District, out of which one man sustained injuries and is fighting for survival, another died on […]

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the shocking killing of nine farmers in Palo, Leyte, Visayas early today. A reliable source said nine people were killed while several others were wounded when soldiers attached to the 19th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, opened fire on a group of people […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that five Thai police officers have dropped defamation complaints against a senior forensic scientist and government bureaucrat over comments that an apparent extrajudicial killing could not be a suicide as claimed by the police. However, the AHRC has also learnt that the police have […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a man due to severe torture by the Railway Police Force on 28 October 2005 in Kharagpur, Medinipore District, West Bengal. On October 20, the railway protection force (RPF) arrested the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the owner arbitrarily closed down the factory in 2002. The AHRC previously reported that the owner, Mohamed Mohamed Izzath deprived his workers of the Employees Trust […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peace Worldwide, a human rights organization in Islamabad, Pakistan regarding an extrajudicial killing of a young man by the Khosar police. According to the information we have received, Mr. Amjad Masih (25), who was accused of the theft, was tortured to death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a 28-year-old man, Mr. Udayakumar, who was severely beaten by policemen who arrested him at a park in Sreekanteswaram, Kerala, India on 27 September 2005. It was learned that Mr. Udayakumar was arrested together with his companion, Mr. Mani, because […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has very disturbing news from local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) that the police in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal, beat a man to death during routine inquiries on 18 September 2005. According to the reports, since the man was killed, the police and local authorities […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, threatened and assaulted by the officers at the Block Development Office in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal. Mr. Sharma was, at the time of the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the suspicious death of a man following his being taken into custody by security forces. Chandra Bahadur Basnet, alias Manoj, along with his friend, Santosh Champlagain was detained by police force officers at the Dhankuta Hotel for no stated reason on 24 […]