Inhuman & degrading treatment

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Durgapur police allegedly arbitrarily arrested a journalist, Mr. Robiul Islam on 28 March without any arrest warrant. While in police custody for about 12 hours, the police attempted to implicate him in a robbery case and intimidated him to make a confessional […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation in West Bengal, India, regarding the case of sexual harassment allegedly committed by two constables of the BSF. It is reported that on 11 February 2008 two officers stationed at Chor Moirosi Border Security Force Camp approached […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Baduraliya police allegedly fabricated charges against a man and his family members on 8 March 2008 in Sri Lanka. Police took one family member to police custody and forced him to sign a statement, which he never made. Later all four family members […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that a national police commissioner allegedly ordered the punishment of Pring Pov as Pring refused to follow an order to cede his land. To date no investigation into several violations of criminal procedure code against him has been reported. The police allegedly illegally […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a police was arrested on 19 February 2008 and allegedly tortured and ill treated in police custody in Kep seaside town, Cambodia. He was confined to a windowless cell and shackled at night. Despite having wounds on his body, he has been denied access […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the authorities at the Negombo Base Hospital have allegedly harassed a women since she reported a suspicious incident of murder to the Negombo police on 12 November 2007. She was transferred from one place to another, and ultimately removed from her employment. She […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police in Kirisakor district allegedly beat a young man with a rifle on 7 February 2008. Police took him to the district police station after the arrest. Even though he lost consciousness due to the assault, he was not provided medical treatment and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the deteriorating health of a Pakistani prisoner detained in a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prisoner is suffering from a serious heart ailment and his health has worsened since he was first imprisoned there in September 2004. The government of Pakistan […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the refusal of the police to register a complaint and file charges against a provincial minister and his armed men in Punjab province. He allegedly ordered the assault, arrest and detention of six student activists and teachers, two of whom were women, where […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forcible deprivation of the education of a 13-year-old student by teachers in Sri Lanka on 19 November 2007. The teachers allegedly forced her to sign a statement that she had been raped and is accordingly pregnant, which a medical report later proved […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man by Kalutara North police on 12 November 2007. He lodged a complaint but instead he was detained as a counter measure to harass or frighten him without any inquiry being made into his own complaint. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the maltreatment of a couple by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in Murshidabad district on 21 September 2007. Although the victims lodged a complaint to the local police, the police have not […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a couple by the Kandana Police who humiliated and harassed them mainly due to racial bias on 26 October 2007. Accordingly, the police visited their house at night, and after searching the premises, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the prolonged and brutally torture of a man by the Kalutara South police, Sri Lanka on 14 October 2007. The police took him to the police station where started assaulting with a wooden baton, suffocating him by slamming water from a hosepipe onto […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on a man by several policemen of the Rakwana police allegedly for refusing to pay a bribe solicited from him on 9 October 2007. Accordingly, when he was travelling on his motor bicycle with a friend, the policemen stopped him and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is appealing to you to write once again to the authorities in India regarding the case of Dr. Binayek Sen who is currently detained at the Raipur prison in Chhattisgarh state. The AHRC is informed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), of which Dr. Sen […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Sri Lankan teenager, who was allegedly assaulted by a teacher, is being denied his right to education due to intervention by the teacher’s colleagues. After the assault in May 2007, a new school was arranged for the boy with the help of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault and arbitrary deprivation of a 17-year-old schoolboy’s right to education by his school principal for more than 4 months, despite education department directives to the contrary. When his parents complained to the police, they were threatened and pressurized by the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights organisations in Manipur, India regarding the attack by an underground group against the government forces and a retaliatory strike by the government forces on September 30, 2007. It is reported that in the attack organised by the People’s Revolutionary Party of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Neervazhi, a local human rights organisation based in Thrissur, Kerala regarding the case of Mr. Musammil who was arrested and tortured by the police officers stationed at Vadakkekad Police Station, in Thrissur district of Kerala state. It is alleged that Musammil was arrested […]