Violence against women

[RE: UP-151-2005: SRI LANKA: Rape victim and her family’s safety feared following the release of five suspects on bail; UA-183-2005: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-127-2005: Main suspect identified in alleged rape incident at Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-149-2005: Rape victim at the Bandaranaike International Airport […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa, a woman who we reported was tortured by the police in Dhaka, despite being pregnant and who has since had three fabricated cases filed against her, is now receiving credible threats – including death threats – by her […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from a reliable source regarding the repeated psychological and physical torture of Ms. Meena Gharti Magar by police at the Area Police Office in Tulsipur and by Teke Kumar, the sub-inspector of Tulsipur prison. As a result of the torture, Ms. Magar decided […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), of the death of Mousami Raha, who died due to burns to 90% of her body caused by her husband and his family. The victim’s father, Bimal Chandra Das, has requested the post-mortem report from the […]

[RE: UP-82-2004: The rape case pending for over three years in magistrate court, UP-16-2004: Trial drags on for rape victim as she awaits justice, UA-33-2001: 16 year-old girl raped but no proper investigation and punishment] ——————————————————————- UP-037-2006: SRI LANKA: Intimidation of a rape victim to withdraw the complaint against her perpetrators SRI LANKA: Intimidation; witness […]

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district] ———————————– UP-016-2006: BANGLADESH: Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged gang rape of a woman belonging to a minority community by six men in Hogolpota village, Bagerhat district on 30 October 2005. The victim, accompanied by her husband, was on her way home after making a phone call to her son […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged raped of a 16-year-old girl belonging to a minority community by a young Muslim man in Basudia village, Munshiganj district on 1 November 2005. The victim, Ms. X (name withheld), was on her way home after attending class at the Baliganon […]

[RE: UA-183-2005: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-127-2005: Main suspect identified in alleged rape incident at Bandaranayake International Airport; UP-149-2005: Rape victim at the Bandaranaike International Airport receives death threats and urgent protection is required] —————————————————————————– UP-151-2005: SRI LANKA: Rape victim and her family’s safety […]

[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) 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 detailed information about an attempted rape in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, by a local police officer on October 15. The officer, who was drunk at the time, allegedly forced his way into the house and tried to commit rape after extorting money from the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal and disturbing case of rape of a 14 year-old girl in the town of Talawakelle.  The young girl was deceived, raped and then assaulted by three boys who then locked her up without food and water for two days.  When the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked by the incident of a Sri Lankan female passenger being raped by airport officers inside of the Bandarnayake International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka on 10 October 2005. The victim was reportedly threatened at knife-point and forcibly drugged before being raped. She was then put onto a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of a 16-year-old girl following a Jirga calling for her death for having dishonoured her tribe. Ms. Bashi of the Luhar tribe left her parents home to marry Mr. Munaware of the Otho tribe. When her father and several relatives approached the elder […]

[RE: UA-34-2004: PAKISTAN: A 13-year-old girl was killed by her in-laws on the pretext of honour killing and her body was not found yet] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that the President’s Office in Pakistan has sent a special in investigation team to investigate the murder of […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of yet another honour killing case in Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to this information, 22-year-old, Ms. Soneet was killed by her husband, Mohammad Sidique on 17 September 2005. It was reported that Mohammed Sidique killed his wife on suspicion of her having […]

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) has received information from reliable sources about the rape of a young woman who was subsequently sold in a public auction on 20 August 2005 in Chirgaon village, Latehar District, Jharkhand for six rupees (13 US cents). Piary, a tribal woman was sexually abused by four people […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Galagedara, Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005. After the girl’s father reported the incident to the police, the alleged perpetrator was arrested but later released on bail. The victim is now unable to either go home […]