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SRI LANKA: Brutal torture of a fisherman by Weligama police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and brutal torture of Mr. P. Gnanasiri and the vicious assault of members of his family, by...

SRI LANKA: A schoolboy brutally assaulted by his teachers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 16-year-old schoolboy Marage Sameera Sampath Kumara, by three of his teachers, including...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP – Misunderstanding the coup

There has been a lot of misunderstanding about the September 19 coup in Thailand. Many foreign correspondents, tourist bloggers and other casual observers have written that the local market is still b...

SRI LANKA: The Sri Lankan state shows complete disregard for its international human rights obligations

(The state’s failure to implement the views and recommendations of the Human Rights Committee on individual complaints, and the failure to implement the Human Rights Committee’s and the CA...

UPDATE (Philippines): Prosecutor failed to look into victim’s torture claims; criminal charges of evidence taken by way of torture filed in court 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Repeated police threats to the attempted rape victim 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a 14-year-old girl Munira who was very nearly raped by the police officers of the Senhati camp in Khul...

CAMBODIA: Two villagers shot and several injured during the illegal forced eviction in Koh Kong 

NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...

UPDATE (Pakistan): Gang raped mother and daughter ordered to leave their home village by the police 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan aut...

UPDATE (Thailand): Illegal detention of former government ministers 

Dear friends, Further to our appeal of September 22 about the military coup in Thailand (UG-018-2006), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that according to the information p...

Sri Lanka: A man’s life is in grave danger due to torture 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention into the alleged torture of a 25 year-old man named Lalith Rajapakse from Kirigallewa by the Medawachchiya pol...

INDONESIA: Assault of a mother of four-year-old daughter by the Jakarta police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the malicious assault and public humiliation of Ms. Sugihart, a 31 year-old impoverished mother, by officers o...

SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by police after allegedly being implicated with false charges 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the severe torture of Mr. Illukumbura Mudiyanselage Mudiyanse, a 49-year-old trader, by the Thalathuoya police on 9 June ...

THAILAND: MILITARY COUP–No way forward but backward

On September 27 the Bangkok Post newspaper published an article pointing to the likely shape of Thailand’s new draft interim constitution in the wake of the September 19 military coup. The inter...

SRI LANKA: Diplomacy on human rights issues seriously under threat

It was reported in the Sri Lankan press (Daily Mirror September 27, 2006 – Sri Lanka signs convention on transnational crime and child abuse) that Sri Lanka has recently ratified the Transnation...

CAMBODIA: Government again silencing critics

At the beginning of this year there were hopes for more freedom of expression and the improvement of democracy in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen had dropped his defamation lawsuits against human act...

PAKISTAN: A radio station was discriminatorily closed down by the government 

NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan auth...

SRI LANKA: Another abduction case by a white van without a number plate 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another enforced disappearance from Sri Lanka in which a white coloured van without a number plate is invo...

UPDATE (Philippines): Food blockade imposed on workers on strike 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information that the union members on strike at Chong Won Fashion Inc. (CWFI) in Rosario, Cavite are being denied access ...

PHILIPPINES: Ten injured in violent dispersal of workers on strike in Cavite 

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

NEPAL: Fresh series of attacks on Dalit temple worshippers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fresh spate of attacks on Dalit temple worshippers and Dalit representative organizations by religious fun...