Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA) regarding the illegal arrest of a human rights defender and a musician from Manipur for they dared to complain against an incident of torture of villagers and members of their troupe. The arrest, allegedly on fabricated charges, is believed to be an act of vengeance by the police. The police had on a previous occasion, tortured members of a music troupe, to which the two persons arrested belong and had tortured them a few days before. The two victims had filed complaints about the incident and had led a joint action committee formed by the villagers that demanded actions against the police officers. Of the two persons arrested now, Mr. Mandir Laishram and Mr. Ningthoujam Hemo, Mandir is active in Manipur, against the state government arming villagers, in the pretext of fighting ant-state activities by militant groups. Read More...

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