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2007 Urgent Appeals
 
THAILAND/CAMBODIA: Thai paramilitaries allegedly kill one Cambodian villager and wound another - 2007-12-21

UNITED KINGDOM/PAKISTAN: Two activists held in London face risk of torture if deported - 2007-12-21

UPDATE (South Korea): Government finally deported three migrant activists without due process - 2007-12-20

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): More victims of killings and disappearances reported in November - 2007-12-20

SRI LANKA: Kandy police are threatening a torture victim to leave the area - 2007-12-20

UPDATE (Philippines): Renewed surveillance on a priest facing threats - 2007-12-19

CAMBODIA: Journalist receives death threats from government official after exposing his neglect of duties - 2007-12-17

MALAYSIA: Persons arrested and charged over oppressive police laws continuously detained - 2007-12-15

INDONESIA: About 300 families of indigenous villagers threatened to be forcibly evicted by the government in West Sumatera - 2007-12-14

INDIA: Magistrate assaults journalists at police station - 2007-12-13

BANGLADESH: Man arrested over false charges dies in police custody - 2007-12-12

CAMBODIA: Man seriously ill after he was severely beaten and robbed by policemen in Kandal province - 2007-12-12

UPDATE (India): False charge filed against Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and colleagues - 2007-12-11

SOUTH KOREA: Arrest of migrant union leaders due to their activities; waiting for forcible deportation - 2007-12-06

CAMBODIA: Police used violence to break up a strike at Fortune Garment and Woolen Knitting Company in Kandal province - 2007-12-05

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): A further list of victims of extrajudicial killings and disappearances reported for November in Sri Lanka - 2007-12-04

INDIA: Human rights activist threatened for reporting starvation death - 2007-12-04

CAMBODIA: A military police officer threatened a woman journalist in Kompong Thom province - 2007-12-04

INDIA: Human rights activist facing threats for reporting cases in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-12-04

GENERAL APPEAL (Cambodia) : Police suppressed freedom of assembly and expression in Rattanakiri Province - 2007-12-03

PHILIPPINES: Farmers detained for theft for harvesting crops they cultivate - 2007-11-30

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Pregnant mother and two-year-old baby likely to die from starvation - 2007-11-30

GENERAL APPEAL (Thailand): Government imposing policies further discriminating against migrant workers - 2007-11-30

UPDATE (Sri lanka): Vavuniya police allegedly attacked a family member of torture victim - 2007-11-30

PAKISTAN: Prominent lawyer tortured, poisoned in detention; two others held incommunicado - 2007-11-26

SRI LANKA: Rattota police mishandle case of child rape victim - 2007-11-26

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Three-year-old Dalit boy may die soon from acute starvation in Jaunpur - 2007-11-24

CAMBODIA: Military police commander assaults a man in Stung Treng province - 2007-11-24

SRI LANKA: Kalutara North police illegally arrested and detained a man - 2007-11-23

UPDATE (Philippines): Police charged for violently dispersing teachers holding peaceful demonstration - 2007-11-23

UPDATE (India): Three cases of assault in Nandigram, West Bengal - 2007-11-23

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): List of 53 disappearances reported for the month of October - 2007-11-22

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Yet another person dies from starvation in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-11-22

UPDATE (Philippines): Two men illegally held in custody released; one details experience of nauseous and brutal torture - 2007-11-22

SRI LANKA: Medical negligence results in woman in intensive care - 2007-11-22

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Human rights activist likely to be shot dead by the Rapid Action Battalion - 2007-11-21

INDIA: Human rights activist facing death threats in Varanasi - 2007-11-21

UPDATE (Indonesia): Army Special Forces threaten social workers to find out Father Johanes Djonga's whereabouts in Papua - 2007-11-21

CAMBODIA: Two killed; several injured and arrested by force in operation of forced eviction in Preah Vihear - 2007-11-20

UPDATE (Thailand): Army withdraws order preventing hundreds of people from returning to their homes in south - 2007-11-20

MALAYSIA: Violent police attack on peaceful protestors; Ten protestors reported to be charged - 2007-11-17

INDIA: Maltreatment of a couple by Border Security Forces (BSF), West Bengal - 2007-11-16

UPDATE (Pakistan): Human rights lawyer in serious condition after he was brutally tortured by the police - 2007-11-16

UPDATE (India): CPI-M cadres' blunt attack resumed against villagers in Nandigram with inaction and connivance of the West Bengal state government - 2007-11-15

SRI LANKA: No proper investigation launched for the killing of a man and injury to his son by Negombo police - 2007-11-13

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE(Philippines): A mother of an infant who died from severe malnutrition dies; illness worsen by lack of food, medicines - 2007-11-13

UPDATE (Pakistan): Prominent lawyer disappears; eight others charged with high treason, tortured in detention - 2007-11-13

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): List of 53 extrajudicial killings reported for the month of October - 2007-11-13

UPDATE (Pakistan): New ordinances deprive press freedom; journalists systematically attacked - 2007-11-10

SRI LANKA: Torture of a casual labourer by the Dodangoda Police - 2007-11-09

INDONESIA: One person killed and two seriously injured by a group allegedly contracted by the military - 2007-11-08

UPDATE(Cambodia): Copies of magazine confiscated and publisher hides due to the fear of retaliation - 2007-11-07

GENERAL APPEAL(Pakistan): State sanctioned attack on justices, lawyers and activists challenging the emergency - 2007-11-07

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest, detention and degrading treatment of a couple by the Kandana Police - 2007-11-07

SRI LANKA: Boy fears more harassment as teachers' alleged misconduct goes unpunished - 2007-11-06

UPDATE(Philippines): More activists and widows helping victims facing threats in separate incidents - 2007-11-06

INDONESIA: Policeman arbitrarily shoots and injures man in Yogyakarta - 2007-11-06

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killing of five youths in Vavuniya - 2007-11-06

INDIA: One minor injured and another killed when Border Security Forces open fire in West Bengal - 2007-11-05

FORWARDED APPEAL (India): Human rights activists arrested and released for protesting against caste based discrimination - 2007-11-05

PHILIPPINES: Activist forcibly taken by soldiers disappear while in custody - 2007-11-05

UPDATE (Thailand): Three vocational training detainees rearrested; police threaten others - 2007-11-05

UPDATE (Cambodia): Court orders release of 13 men but seven are still detained - 2007-11-05

UPDATE (Thailand): Hundreds released from army detention prevented from going home - 2007-11-02

UPDATE (Burma): Appeals against imprisonment of seven human rights defenders rejected; more reportedly jailed - 2007-11-02

SRI LANKA: Absence of Investigation due to the alleged corruption of Bulathsinhala police - 2007-11-01

GENERAL APPEAL (United Arab Emirates): Over 4,000 workers are being deported due to their protest in Dubai - 2007-11-01

SRI LANKA: No investigation after Piliyandala police assault a man - 2007-10-31

SRI LANKA: Several media personnel killed while investigation has failed - 2007-10-30

PHILIPPINES: Police kill farmer in front of his family; another activist disappears - 2007-10-30

UPDATE (Bangladesh): One human rights defender arbitrarily arrested and again implicated into fabricated case - 2007-10-30

PHILIPPINES: Obvious surveillance on a legal aid office for workers continuing - 2007-10-29

SRI LANKA: Matale police torture a man but no investigation is conducted - 2007-10-26

UPDATE (Nepal): Another two cases of torture perpetrated by the same members of the Morang Police - 2007-10-25

INDIA: Human rights activist facing threats for protesting against corruption - 2007-10-25

PAKISTAN: Higher police officers have impunity in the torture case of a French researcher - 2007-10-25

PHILIPPINES: Killing of three more persons in Negros Occidental; one victim's body mutilated and sexual organ severed - 2007-10-25

NEPAL: Three members of the Morang police engaged in serial torture - 2007-10-24

UPDATE (Burma): More details of deaths during protests emerge - 2007-10-24

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Dalit women refused medical care and asked to pay bribe at the Primary Health Centre - 2007-10-23

SRI LANKA: Police assault on a man for refusing to pay bribe - 2007-10-22

SRI LANKA: Kalutara South police tortured a man in order to fabricate charges - 2007-10-22

SOUTH KOREA: Mentally handicapped minor kept for 15 days in police custody despite lack of evidence - 2007-10-18

UPDATE (Philippines): Police continuously fail to protect wife and two daughters of murdered activist facing threat - 2007-10-18

UPDATE (Burma): Family and friends of assault victim jailed instead of perpetrator - 2007-10-17

PHILIPPINES: No action against policemen who attack teachers in dispersing their peaceful demonstration - 2007-10-17

UPDATE (Philippines): Four activists facing continuing threats under surveillance - 2007-10-16

INDIA: Torture by pouring acid on the suspect in West Bengal - 2007-10-15

THAILAND: Husband of human rights defender shot dead in south - 2007-10-15

NEPAL: Journalist abducted by Maoists, whereabouts still unknown - 2007-10-15

PHILIPPINES: Violent dispersal of workers by the police; workers denied from returning to work despite lawful order - 2007-10-15

INDIA: Corrupt practices promoting caste-based discrimination in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-10-12

UPDATE (Burma): Two years' jail for praising Buddhism; four years for solo protest - 2007-10-12

SINGAPORE: Five charged for holding peaceful protest in support of people in Burma - 2007-10-12

PAKISTAN: Chief Justice of a provincial High Court was threatened by a ruling party - 2007-10-11

UPDATE (Indonesia): Fair trial not guaranteed in the prosecution of killers of four villagers under military court - 2007-10-11

PAKISTAN: One person shot dead and several injured by firing during illegal demolition - 2007-10-10

UPDATE (India): Delaying tactics resorted to by the prosecution in Dr. Binayek Sen's case - 2007-10-10

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE (India): A handloom weaver suffering from tuberculosis and poverty for 22 years - 2007-10-09

NEPAL: Man forced to drink urine and eat glass in Kohalpur police office - 2007-10-09

SRI LANKA: A 17-year-old schoolboy victimized by education and policing institutions of a failing system - 2007-10-06

SRI LANKA: A man tortured after illegal detention by the Panadura Police - 2007-10-05

SRI LANKA: Assault by the Piliyandala police at the instigation of a third party - 2007-10-05

UPDATE (Philippines): Man forced to falsely charge labour leader following threats of torture - 2007-10-04

INDIA: Paramilitary unleashes brutality in Manipur injuring several innocent persons - 2007-10-04

UPDATE (Philippines): Torture victim released following exoneration from false charges; no action taken against policemen - 2007-10-03

FORWARDED APPEAL(Burma): Appeal to China to take action on Burma - 2007-10-03

UPDATE (Burma): Three teenage sisters and a young mother of two have disappeared - 2007-10-03

UPDATE(Indonesia): Two more suspects in Munir's death identified - 2007-10-02

UPDATE(Indonesia): Continuing threat on the head of the Human Rights Commission in Papua; soldier threatens to kill a priest - 2007-10-02

UPDATE (Burma): Protests continue despite heavy security; more people and monks taken away; townsfolk defend monasteries with slingshots - 2007-09-30

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Ongoing killing and disappearance in Jaffna - 2007-09-28

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Handloom weavers and their family members may die from tuberculosis in Uttar Pradesh due to poor living conditions - 2007-09-27

INDIA: A person arrested and tortured at midnight for a petty offense - 2007-09-27

UPDATE (Burma): Riot police shoot, beat, gas protestors in Rangoon; rallies continue - 2007-09-26

UPDATE (Burma): Thousands of monks and protestors in Rangoon defy threats from regime - 2007-09-25

SRI LANKA: Torture of a boy and his uncle by the Nawalapitiya police - 2007-09-24

INDIA: Minor detained in police custody for the past 14 days - 2007-09-24

UPDATE (Burma): Monks on the march, boycotting military regime across country - 2007-09-21

INDONESIA: Police fails to finish investigation into a boy's death due to wrong medicine prescription - 2007-09-20

SRI LANKA: Driver brutally tortured and falsely charged by the Ganemulla Police - 2007-09-20

PHILIPPINES: Plight of abducted labour leader falsely charged for acts of terror remains unknown - 2007-09-19

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Further list of victims of extrajudicial killings, disappearance - 2007-09-18

SRI LANKA: Alleged fabrication on charges against a woman seeking justice - 2007-09-18

NEPAL: Continuing impunity for policemen that tortured a school teacher - 2007-09-17

BANGLADESH: A 65-year-old man allegedly tortured to death by police - 2007-09-17

THAILAND: Court dismisses case against protesters; prosecution should cease pursuing innocent persons - 2007-09-17

SRI LANKA: A student hospitalised after assault and denied of education by principal - 2007-09-14

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE (India): Alina Shahin passed away yesterday - 2007-09-14

UPDATE (Bangladesh): A human rights defender is implicated with the alleged false charges - 2007-09-13

INDIA: Three minors killed in an accident and no attempts made to arrest the responsible persons - 2007-09-13

BANGLADESH: Young man dies of brutal torture; four others seriously injured by army's Joint Forces - 2007-09-11

UPDATE (Burma): Workers' rights advocates given long jail terms - 2007-09-11

UPDATE (Burma): First report of death in fuel protests; courts closed; monks to refuse donations from officials - 2007-09-10

JAPAN: A 81 year-old person waiting for the execution of capital punishment for the past 43 years - 2007-09-07

UPDATE (India): Bail application for Dr. Binayek Sen admitted for hearing - 2007-09-07

UPDATE (Burma): Monks hold government officials as hostages; more protests and arrests around the country - 2007-09-07

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Killing and disappearance of 57 humanitarian workers reported - 2007-09-06

CAMBODIA: Four women beaten by armed police during demolition attempt - 2007-09-06

INDIA: Yet another person shot dead at the Indo-Bangladesh border - 2007-09-06

THAILAND: Human rights defender detained for pending criminal libel charges filed by coup leaders - 2007-09-05

UPDATE (Philippines): No protection for family of murdered activist facing continuing threats - 2007-09-05

SRI LANKA: A 15-year-old girl is deprived of education due to the arbitrary and unethical practices of two school principals - 2007-09-04

INDIA: Untouchability practiced in government school in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-09-04

SRI LANKA: Denial of education after complaining teacher's violent assault - 2007-09-03

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: A 18-month-old girl may die soon from starvation in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-09-03

FORWARDED APPEAL (Philippines): Killing of a peasant leader in Bukidnon - 2007-08-31

BANGLADESH: Whereabouts of three professors remain unknown after being produced in court - 2007-08-31

INDIA: Eleven children and a young man shot dead in Chhattisgarh by the Indian Reserve Battalion - 2007-08-31

UPDATE (Indonesia): Final review appeal begins on Munir's death - 2007-08-31

UPDATE (Burma): Despite over 100 arrests, protests continue; still no action by UN - 2007-08-29

INDIA: Local police officers suspected to be behind the disappearance of a husband and wife in West Bengal - 2007-08-28

PHILIPPINES: Soldiers allegedly spied on and vilified student activists in two Manila universities - 2007-08-28

SRI LANKA: Assault of a 40-year-old labourer by the Dodangoda Police - 2007-08-27

SRI LANKA: Yet another disappearance of a man in Colombo - 2007-08-27

BURMA: At least 65 persons reported arrested over protests against fuel prices - 2007-08-26

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture of a 20-year-old man by Galaha police - 2007-08-24

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Corrupt village administration likely to cause starvation deaths in Shankarpur village - 2007-08-24

UPDATE (Thailand): Commander testifies that he left for dinner instead of overseeing Tak Bai protest operation - 2007-08-22

SRI LANKA: No investigation into alleged sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl - 2007-08-22

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Police's inaction to investigate the alleged abduction of a rape victim - 2007-08-21

INDIA: Forced eviction in West Bengal by the local police - 2007-08-20

CAMBODIA: House of journalist reporting illegal logging torched following threats by members of security forces - 2007-08-17

INDIA: Local police in West Bengal continuing their corrupt practices - 2007-08-16

UPDATE (Pakistan): No action against police officers who allegedly tortured eight persons - 2007-08-15

FORWARDED APPEAL (Bangladesh): Legal action against one human rights advocate due to his work on illegal demolition of one Hindu temple by the armed forces - 2007-08-15

NEPAL: Man threatened with death and tortured into making false confession by police - 2007-08-14

PHILIPPINES: Forcible abduction and disappearance of three farmer leaders in Zamboanga del Sur - 2007-08-14

CAMBODIA: An alleged assault of a journalist by the military police officer in Posat Province - 2007-08-13

NEPAL: Police inaction into rape of a 15-year-old girl by a civilian and a soldier denounced - 2007-08-10

INDIA: A villager mowed down and drowned by the Border Security Force in West Bengal - 2007-08-10

UPDATE (Philippines): Trial begins for soldiers charged with homicide after a three-year delay - 2007-08-09

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: A three-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl may die soon due to malnourishment in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-08-09

PAKISTAN: Torture and inhuman treatments to eight detainees falsely charged by the police - 2007-08-09

UPDATE (Philippines): Two female striking workers allegedly kidnapped and dumped to a canal in Cavite - 2007-08-08

SRI LANKA: No investigation into the alleged police torture of a local council member in Kandy - 2007-08-08

BURMA: Six persons illegally jailed and charged for talking about workers' rights - 2007-08-08

INDONESIA: Police deny visit of family members and legal access to arrestee - 2007-08-07

INDIA: A mother and son denied justice by the local police - 2007-08-07

SRI LANKA: Principal severely assaults 15-year-old student resulting in hospitalisation - 2007-08-07

SOUTH KOREA: Massive dismissal of workers by company while the government cracked down on their strike - 2007-08-07

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE(India): Sub Divisional Magistrate threatens human rights activist in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-08-07

BANGLADESH: Alleged extrajudicial killing of a carpenter by army personnel at Moulovibazar - 2007-08-03

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE(India): District administration responds to Hunger Alerts in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-08-03

SRI LANKA: Threats and legal action against workers and human rights defenders by company in Kochchikade - 2007-08-03

UPDATE(Burma): Human rights defender sentenced to three years in jail for "illegal tuition" - 2007-08-02

THAILAND: Death in custody and alleged torture of man in southern Thailand - 2007-08-02

INDIA: Human rights activist charge sheeted upon allegedly false charges - 2007-08-02

PAKISTAN: Two men abducted and their whereabouts still unknown;Police allegedly tortured and threatened family members to withdraw case of abduction - 2007-08-02

SRI LANKA: Yet another custodial death in Ratgama police - 2007-08-02

UPDATE(India): Arbitrary detention of Dr. Binayak Sen continues - 2007-08-01

UPDATE(Philippines): Violent attacks forced workers to abandon strike - 2007-08-01

[Hunger Alert] INDIA: Two-year-old girl facing imminent death from starvation in Raitara village of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-07-31

SRI LANKA: Deprivation of right to education for a 15 year-old boy - 2007-07-30

SRI LANKA: Victimization of an 8-year-old boy by the Principal and staff of the Halkanda School in Payagala - 2007-07-30

UPDATE(Burma): Six human rights defenders given jail terms; one awaits verdict - 2007-07-27

[Hunger Alert] GENERAL(India): Hundreds of families deprived of all benefits of the government welfare programmes in Asanahar village in Sonbadra district of Uttar Pradesh - 2007-07-25

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka must ratify the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 2007-07-25

INDIA: A mother running pillar to post to get her son released from illegal detention - 2007-07-24

UPDATE(Bangladesh): An investigation began into the alleged threats against a human rights defender by the RAB official - 2007-07-24

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): Two police officers duly convicted for torture of woman - 2007-07-24

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): Family of 15-year-old victim of physical violence pressured by Police to withdraw complaint against alleged perpetrator - 2007-07-24

HUNGER ALERT(India): Five-year-old Dalit girl facing imminent death from starvation in Raitara village of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-07-23

PAKISTAN: Police deny registering the case of disappearance - 2007-07-23

PHILIPPINES: Soldiers shoot and torture a villager following arrest - 2007-07-23

BANGLADESH: Alleged abuse of a child maid by the RAB officer in Dhaka - 2007-07-21

BURMA: Government-backed group obstructs police investigators after another human rights defender assaulted - 2007-07-20

INDONESIA: Man arbitrarily arrested and falsely charged after torture by Benteng police - 2007-07-19

SRI LANKA: Man severely tortured by the Badureliya police; Court denies medical examination of torture victim - 2007-07-19

PHILIPPINES: Two activists shot dead respectively by armed group - 2007-07-19

FORWARDED APPEAL(Iran): A mother of two charged with adultery faces being stoned to death, while her partner was stoned to death - 2007-07-18

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): 14-year-old girl traumatized by her class teacher continues to be deprived of her education - 2007-07-18

BURMA: Man disappears after being taken away to work as army porter - 2007-07-17

HUNGER ALERT (India): Five-year-old Musahar boy may die from starvation in Raitara of Pindra village in Varanasi in the coming days - 2007-07-17

INDIA: Army officers assault and seriously injure a girl in Manipur - 2007-07-16

BURMA: Two more alleged killings in police custody; no investigations - 2007-07-16

NEPAL: Army shoots and kills 12-year old girl - 2007-07-16

UPDATE(Thailand): Another five killings in which Kalasin police suspected of involvement - 2007-07-13

NEPAL: Man forcibly disappeared and another severely tortured by the Young Communist League affiliated to the Maoists - 2007-07-13

MALAYSIA: Arbitrary arrests and detention of 233 asylum seekers and refugees - 2007-07-13

SRI LANKA: Young woman brutally stabbed to death by members of Armed Forces - 2007-07-13

NEPAL: Kavrepalanchowk Police allegedly denied receiving complaint from widow whose husband abducted and killed by Maoists - 2007-07-13

GENERAL APPEAL (Thailand): Hundreds of villagers rounded up and detained in southern Thailand - 2007-07-12

SRI LANKA: A man forcibly abducted and disappeared in Munnakkara - 2007-07-12

BANGLADESH: An alleged brutal assault of four persons by the Meherpur Sadar police - 2007-07-10

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): Three years after incident, intimidation of torture victim by the Moratuwa Police continues - 2007-07-10

INDONESIA: Alleged extrajudicial killing of a man and attempt to cover up by Tombolo Pao police in South Sulawesi - 2007-07-10

UPDATE(Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka): Your urgent intervention is needed to save Rizana Nafeek who must appeal against the death sentence before 16 July 2007 - 2007-07-09

UPDATE(Philippines): Abducted and tortured activist charged with rebellion - 2007-07-06

GENERAL APPEAL(Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka): A Special Appeal under Extraordinary Circumstances for Nafeek Rizana - 2007-07-06

INDONESIA: Religious persecution escalates on minority Islamic group, Ahmadiyah in Tasikmalaya, West Java - 2007-07-06

UPDATE(Nepal): Torture and sexual molestation victim receives threats from the police for registering a case in court - 2007-07-05

UPDATE(Pakistan): Gang rape victim threatened by local politicians; police exonerates perpetrators before investigation - 2007-07-05

BANGLADESH: Delay of investigation creates cover up in the case of alleged assaults by Nandail police in Mymensing - 2007-07-03

INDONESIA: Government failed to respond to threats to civil society and religious group in Surakarta, Central Java - 2007-07-03

BANGLADESH: Man allegedly tortured by military; police refuse to take up the case - 2007-07-03

UPDATE (Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka): Please immediately write to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to save the life of its citizen - 2007-07-03

INDIA: A foreigner allegedly raped by the Border Security Force in West Bengal - 2007-07-03

SRI LANKA: Savage assault of a father of five, by the Eheliyagoda Police - 2007-06-28

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault of a 15-year-old girl by a male school teacher - 2007-06-28

INDONESIA: Human rights activists from West Papua targeted following meetings with UN Human Rights Defenders Special Representative - 2007-06-28

INDIA: Student denied admission to the University for exercising his right under the Right to Information Act, 2005 - 2007-06-27

UPDATE(Indonesia): Falsely implication of family members of a man shot dead by the Medan Police on charges of other crimes - 2007-06-27

SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Death sentence to young girl requires urgent intervention by the Sri Lankan government - 2007-06-27

UPDATE(India): Arbitrary detention of Dr. Binayak Sen continues - 2007-06-26

UPDATE(Sri Lanka): Police allegedly implicated a man on a false murder charge due to his assistance to the torture victim - 2007-06-25

INDIA: Elected representatives abused and assaulted by the Border Security Force - 2007-06-25

PHILIPPINES: Two men brutally tortured, deprived food inside a military headquarters - 2007-06-25

INDONESIA: Man illegally arrested and tortured by Pekanbaru police - 2007-06-25

INDONESIA: Young man tortured in police station at Tegal, Central Java - 2007-06-22

PHILIPPINES: No action against soldiers who kill youth; another activist survives attack - 2007-06-22

UPDATE (Pakistan): Sindh police threatened gang rape survivor back to her village - 2007-06-22

UPDATE (Philippines): Violent attacks on striking workers; police allegedly refused to register and investigate - 2007-06-21

INDIA: Two students abducted and disappeared in Andhra Pradesh - 2007-06-21

UPDATE (Cambodia): Reporter receives death threat after revealing illegal logging in Kompong Thom province - 2007-06-21

UPDATE(Pakistan): Prime perpetrator involved in severance of penis case is still free under the protection of a Minister - 2007-06-20

UPDATE (Philippines): Further delay in review of death sentences, torture complaints - 2007-06-20

INDONESIA: Alleged threats to lawyers in Medan by military personnel - 2007-06-20

PHILIPPINES: Police' vehicle used in forcibly abducting a man in General Santos City - 2007-06-20

INDIA: Harassment and assault of a couple by the local police in West Bengal - 2007-06-20

UPDATE(Burma): Family of young man killed by local council members intimidated & kept in the dark - 2007-06-18

NEPAL: Alleged brutal attack of villagers by police in Dhanusha district - 2007-06-18

UPDATE (Thailand): General did nothing to stop mass killing; attempt to intimidate lawyers for victims' families in court - 2007-06-16

INDIA: Mysterious death of a person not investigated at all by the by the Andhra Pradesh state police - 2007-06-16

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary detention of 7 student activists by joint security forces - 2007-06-15

NEPAL: An alleged rape of a minor by the three policemen and one civilian in Kanchanpur - 2007-06-15

SRI LANKA: Alleged assault of two men by the Meegahatenna police in Kalutara - 2007-06-14

INDIA: Seven families illegally evicted from their rented houses - 2007-06-14

CAMBODIA: Newspaper publishing report on illegal logging is banned by Government - 2007-06-14

UPDATE (Burma): Assaulted rights defenders imprisoned & face serious legal action, while officials escape charges of assault - 2007-06-13

INDIA: Human rights activist arrested for writing down judge’s name - 2007-06-13

CAMBODIA: 74 families face imminent eviction in Sihanoukville - 2007-06-13

INDIA: Police Sub Inspector assaults innocent persons in Kerala - 2007-06-12

SRI LANKA: Denial of right to education to 15-year-old rape victim - 2007-06-12

UPDATE (Nepal): Alleged torture of other 13 men by police in Kathmandu - 2007-06-11

SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and fabrication of charges of a man by the Katadeniyawa police - 2007-06-11

PHILIPPINES: Abducted activist suffers torture and food deprivation in captivity - 2007-06-11

UPDATE (Thailand): Rights commissioner tells court that no evidence victims of police killings were insurgents - 2007-06-11

UPDATE (Cambodia): Two detained villagers allegedly forced to give confessions in exchange for their release by court in Kampot province - 2007-06-08

UPDATE (India): Continuing detention of human rights activist in Chhattisgarh - 2007-06-08

SRI LANKA: Alleged illegal detention and torture of two men by police - 2007-06-08

[Hunger Alert] UPDATE(Thailand): Government official admits to not knowing facts before arresting and forcibly evicting villagers - 2007-06-08

UPDATE (Philippines): Killing of two peasants and wounding of six others in a violent attack - 2007-06-07

INDIA: Medical doctor from Dalit community abused at the clinic and the local police refusing to take action - 2007-06-06

NEPAL: Legal aid NGO is denied access to detainees for filing an application for medical check-up on behalf of a torture vi - 2007-06-06

FORWARDED APPEAL (Indonesia): Please urge the Government to accede the Rome Statute of the ICC - 2007-06-06

PHILIPPINES: Supreme Court fails to review death sentences of five torture victims seven years on - 2007-06-06

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary detention of two former ministers under state emergency act - 2007-06-05

NEPAL: Alleged brutal torture and attempted rape of a woman by Police - 2007-06-05

PAKISTAN: Government illegally stopped the transmissions of several TV channels - 2007-06-05

NEPAL: Two alleged brutal torture cases committed by Banke district police - 2007-06-05

THAILAND: No action against army killers of two young men - 2007-06-04

INDONESIA: At least 5 villagers allegedly shot dead by Navy force in Pasuruan, East Java - 2007-06-04

INDIA: Caste based discrimination and assaults against Dalits are on the increase in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-06-01

CAMBODIA: Forced eviction of 92 families in Sihanoukville allegedly led by Khan Stung Hav governor - 2007-05-31

NEPAL: Human rights defender threatened for publishing book on violations by the military - 2007-05-29

UPDATE (Philippines): Military fails to turn personnel charged with murder over to the police - 2007-05-26

UPDATE (Thailand): More abductions & killings allegedly by Kalasin police - 2007-05-25

BANGLADESH: Alleged brutal killing of a man by the RAB officers in Rajshahi - 2007-05-25

UPDATE (Nepal): Continuing threats and harassment by Maoists of a girl and her mother - 2007-05-25

UPDATE (Thailand): Please attend another post-mortem inquest into 2004 killings - 2007-05-25

PHILIPPINES: Killing of five more activists and forcible disappearance of another one in separate incidents - 2007-05-23

INDONESIA: Man beaten to death by sector police in Tangerang - 2007-05-23

PHILIPPINES: Killing of three peasants; gruesome murder of a mother and her son in separate incidents - 2007-05-22

UPDATE (Indonesia): Yet another brutal attack against officers of a political party by military men - 2007-05-21

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault on a 65-year-old by the Kananke Police at the instigation of a third party - 2007-05-21

INDIA: Three persons from the scheduled caste forced to work as bonded labourers in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 2007-05-21

SRI LANKA: Brutal torture of a man by military officers - 2007-05-19

UPDATE (Thailand): Two influential persons imprisoned for rape and murder; police officer implicated in one crime still unpunished - 2007-05-18

SRI LANKA: Two "white van" abductions within a few hours in Colombo - 2007-05-17

FORWARDED APPEAL (India): Arrest of a prominent human rights activist over oppressive laws - 2007-05-15

SRI LANKA: A man was brutally tortured and denied food by a Special Investigation Unit (SIU) officer - 2007-05-15

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Court releases the alleged perpetrator of brutal assault of his student without sufficient investigation - 2007-05-14

PHILIPPINES: Another political activist evades possible attempt on his life; an elderly activist’ complaint of abduction against military drags on - 2007-05-14

CAMBODIA: Arrest of four villagers after testifying in court against illegal possession of their land in Kampot province - 2007-05-12

INDIA: An ailing man died in the custody of Border Security Force( BSF) due to lack of medical help - 2007-05-11

SRI LANKA: Severe torture by the Negombo Police on inducement by influential third party - 2007-05-11

UPDATE (Thailand): General responsible for killings not prosecuted but reinstated - 2007-05-11

SRI LANKA: Arrest and detention of a man in lieu of his son by the Kahawatte police - 2007-05-11

UPDATE (Cambodia): Ratanakiri authorities halted the bulldozing and clearing after forced eviction of the 115 hectares of indigenous community land - 2007-05-10

PHILIPPINES: Forcible abduction and disappearance of five persons including a mother of two-month-old twin - 2007-05-10

UPDATE (Cambodia): A human rights investigator and 5 villagers are being accused of incitement to create a secession area - 2007-05-10

INDIA: Alleged torture of a man by police and continuous intimidation to victim by Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists - 2007-05-09

SRI LANKA: Local gangs fabricate accusation against brutally assaulted family - 2007-05-09

UPDATE (Thailand): Administrative Court rejects petition and allows policemen allegedly involved in the disappearance of human rights lawyer to resume duties - 2007-05-09

UPDATE (Thailand): Details of more alleged killings by police in Kalasin - 2007-05-08

CAMBODIA: A local journalist received public death threat from an army general - 2007-05-08

PHILIPPINES: Husband of a political activist shot dead in Mindanao - 2007-05-08

BURMA: Two men jailed for allegedly possessing video of army wedding - 2007-05-07

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Compensation granted to the torture victim by the Supreme Court while criminal prosecution against perpetrators delayed - 2007-05-07

SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and fabrication of charges by Wattegama Police - 2007-05-07

PAKISTAN: Brutal attack and threats of rape against female opposition council members of the Karachi city government by the ruling party members - 2007-05-05

BANGLADESH: Alleged serious intimidation by the Rapid Action Battalion in Rajshahi against a human rights defender - 2007-05-05

UPDATE (Cambodia): Alleged eviction of 107 families in Sihanoukville by the order of the Governor - 2007-05-04

INDONESIA: Medan District Police again bring the Rule-of-Law into dispute with the brutal murder of an innocent man - 2007-05-04

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Muslim weavers' community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh faces starvation and lack of social welfare - 2007-05-04

BANGLADESH: Human Rights Defender is seriously threatened and intimidated by Navy - 2007-05-04

INDONESIA: Alleged arbitrary arrest and killing of a man by Medan District Police Officers - 2007-05-03

THAILAND: Young man allegedly illegally detained & tortured by army - 2007-05-03

NEPAL: Authorities refuse to register FIR concerning extra-judicial killings case - 2007-05-03

SRI LANKA: Long delay obtaining justice for the alleged fabricated charge against a married couple - 2007-05-02

UPDATE (Burma): Urgent developments in case of attacked human rights defenders - 2007-05-02

SRI LANKA: A woman allegedly implicated with a false case due to nexus between the excise department officers and local criminals - 2007-04-30

SRI LANKA: Another alleged assault of a 14-year-old student by the principal - 2007-04-30

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): List of another 22 disappeared persons - 2007-04-30

UPDATE (India): District Magistrate misusing his office to lead a smear campaign against human rights activists - 2007-04-27

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): No suspension against teacher charged with assault case - 2007-04-25

UPDATE (Indonesia): The naming of two more suspects in Munir murder case brings new hope for justice for the slain activist - 2007-04-25

SRI LANKA: Alleged torture and fabrication of case against a man by the Special Investigation Unit-Kalutara - 2007-04-24

SRI LANKA: An alleged serious assault of 13-year-old boy by a school teacher - 2007-04-23

THAILAND: No progress in investigations of police serial killers - 2007-04-20

INDIA: Illegal detention of two minors by police - 2007-04-20

BANGLADESH: Mistaken identify leads to the illegal detention and torture of an innocent salesman - 2007-04-19

NEPAL: Four human rights abuse cases alleged done by Maoists - 2007-04-19

BURMA: Government-backed gang attacks human rights defenders - 2007-04-19

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Attorney General should prosecute alleged perpetrators in Citthi Naseera's case - 2007-04-18

SRI LANKA: No criminal action against two policemen after Human Rights Commission confirms torture of a man - 2007-04-18

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a bus driver by a traffic police officer - 2007-04-18

SRI LANKA: Three men violently assaulted by police over alleged fabricated charges - 2007-04-17

PAKISTAN: Seven Christians arrested in false blasphemy cases and men torture to extract false confession - 2007-04-17

INDIA: Alleged abduction and murder of two persons by the security forces in Manipur - 2007-04-17

INDIA: Complete failure in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-04-16

INDIA: Failure of police investigation into alleged dowry death of a woman - 2007-04-14

INDIA: Government pleader leads criminals to demolish houses in Kerala - 2007-04-13

CAMBODIA: Unjust conviction of two men by the appeal court in the murder of Chea Vichea - 2007-04-13

PAKISTAN: Four persons missing including a political activist and a journalist in Balochistan - 2007-04-13

NEPAL: Five minors and two adults severely tortured by the police after their illegal arrest and detention - 2007-04-13

UPDATE (Thailand): Doctor tells court that Tak Bai victims died of asphyxiation after assault; no full autopsies done - 2007-04-13

HUNGER ALERT (India): Deaths from starvation imminent in Alhadadpur village in Amebdkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh - 2007-04-13

INDONESIA: Alleged severe torture of six teenage youth by police over petty quarrel - 2007-04-12

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a man by Ratnapura police - 2007-04-12

INDIA: Caste prejudiced police officers beat up an 11 year old dalit boy - 2007-04-11

SRI LANKA: A police inspector allegedly assaulted and threatened a man on a personal matter - 2007-04-11

INDONESIA: Police inaction into violent attack on protesters - 2007-04-11

UPDATE (Nepal): Legal aid NGO is now allowed to access to detainees at the Kanchanpur detention centre - 2007-04-11

INDIA: A family threatened by extortionists and the local police refusing to take any action - 2007-04-11

BANGLADESH: A man allegedly tortured and further implicated with a false case by the Khan Jahan Ali police in Khulna - 2007-04-10

INDIA: A person detained in illegal custody and tortured for seven days dies soon after release - 2007-04-10

INDIA: Three persons allegedly shot dead by the Rapid Action Force in Manipur - 2007-04-10

SRI LANKA: List of 81 disappeared persons documented for the last 8 months - 2007-04-05

INDIA: Death of a woman in suspicious circumstances and local police failing to investigate the case properly - 2007-04-05

THAILAND: Military personnel kill 15-year old boy, shoot up school - 2007-04-04

UPDATE (Thailand): Inquest into deaths of 78 men going on in Bangkok - 2007-04-04

UPDATE (Burma): Court drops charge against Rangoon resident - 2007-04-04

INDIA: Dalits allegedly beaten up by upper caste and police refuse to register a case - 2007-04-04

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Investigating officer changed six times on the alleged custodial death of a man; the case extraordinarily drags on - 2007-04-04

HUNGER ALERT (India): 18 Musahar families are dying of starvation due to negligence of district administration in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 2007-04-04

INDIA: Apparent police inaction into the alleged constant assaults and threats against a man - 2007-04-03

INDIA: Two minors allegedly shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force - 2007-04-03

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Subsequent pressure by Ambalangoda police to the torture victims continues - 2007-04-02

UPDATE (Bangladesh): No prosecution against alleged perpetrators, while another Intelligence wing investigates the torture of two businessmen - 2007-04-02

SRI LANKA: Improper police investigation led a theft case against one woman without any concrete evidence - 2007-04-02

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Intelligence wing investigates into the rape case in Khulna - 2007-04-02

UPDATE (Burma): Farmer who complained against local council released from prison - 2007-04-02

HUNGER ALERT (India): Corruption causes starvation in Musahar community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 2007-04-02

UPDATE (Burma): Arrested satirist bailed out by two strangers - 2007-03-30

SRI LANKA: Alleged arbitrary arrest and brutal assault of a police man by the Baduraliya police - 2007-03-30

CAMBODIA: Candidate of an opposition party killed just days before communal election - 2007-03-29

BANGLADESH: Alleged brutal torture of a man by corrupt police for not paying bribe - 2007-03-29

PAKISTAN: Two teenagers were allegedly shot dead in a fake police encounter - 2007-03-29

INDIA: Arbitrary police raids of the houses of a human rights activist and poor peasants in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state - 2007-03-28

CAMBODIA: Development firm allegedly hires gunmen to extort poor villagers through an illegal toll-booth - 2007-03-28

UPDATE (Thailand): No action against police chief over threats to human rights defender - 2007-03-28

UPDATE (Pakistan): Federal minister allegedly forced the torture victim to settle his case with the accused police officers - 2007-03-28

INDIA: Human rights activists and organisations allegedly harassed and prevented from functioning by the District Magistrate of Leh in Jammu and Kashmir - 2007-03-28

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest and torture of a mentally retarded young man - 2007-03-27

FORWARDED APPEAL (Sri Lanka): A state against minorities - 2007-03-27

INDIA: A man allegedly tortured and implicated in false cases - 2007-03-27

NEPAL: Two civilians subjected to torture while in detention, access to family denied - 2007-03-27

UPDATE (Pakistan): Sindh government ordered gang-rape victim to vacate safe-house - 2007-03-27

INDIA: Labour rights activist allegedly implicated in a false case by the police - 2007-03-27

THAILAND: A 14-year trial and alleged police set-up - 2007-03-26

UPDATE (Thailand): Please attend programme on forced disappearances in Thailand - 2007-03-26

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a 15 year-old student by his teacher - 2007-03-26

BURMA: Another murderous assault in custody blamed on "cold" - 2007-03-26

INDIA: Man is allegedly tortured to death by police after refusing to pay bribe in West Bengal - 2007-03-23

SRI LANKA: Disappearance of fifteen innocent civilians in Trincomalee and Colombo - 2007-03-23

UPDATE (Indonesia): House of Representative refused to deal with the cases of human rights violations in Trisakti and Semanggi - 2007-03-22

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Continuous police harassment of tortured women: Grave concern for her safety - 2007-03-21

NEPAL: Torture victim keeps facing death threats by the local police authorities in Kalikot district - 2007-03-20

SOUTH KOREA: Fire kills and injures 55 migrant workers in foreigner detention centre - 2007-03-19

INDIA: Police refusing to register a charge sheet in the case of rape of a minor girl - 2007-03-19

INDONESIA: Brigadier officer assaults hospitalised teenage boy - 2007-03-16

UPDATE (India): List of several missing and injured persons of the Nandigram massacre - 2007-03-16

INDIA: Police remain inactive on the alleged torture of a fisherman and an elderly widow by officers of the Border Security Force - 2007-03-16

PHILIPPINES: A human rights defender who testified to UN special rapporteur shot dead in Misamis Oriental - 2007-03-16

PAKISTAN: Gang-rape of a 15 year-old girl and total obstruction of justice by police and state authorities - 2007-03-15

SRI LANKA: Worsening security situation of the students of the University of Jaffna - 2007-03-15

INDIA: Police refuse to register the case of a missing girl in West Bengal - 2007-03-15

SRI LANKA: Arbitrary arrest and detention and brutal assault of civilian by Ratnapura Police - 2007-03-15

INDIA: 11 villagers killed and more than 50 persons injured when police fired at villagers protesting against proposed land acquisition in Nandigram - 2007-03-15

UPDATE (India): Please urge the National Human Rights Commission of India to immediately send its fact-finding team to inquire about Nandigram massacre - 2007-03-15

BANGLADESH: Extreme torture, child abuse and an extrajudicial killing in Bangladesh as Navy runs rampant - 2007-03-14

INDIA: Custodial death of an under trial prisoner after brutal torture in prison - 2007-03-14

UPDATE (India): Torture victim and his family members re-arrested and impartiality of the investigation is at stake - 2007-03-13

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Police investigation started on harassment of human rights defender and his father by the army in Khulna - 2007-03-12

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Police investigation regarding the alleged torture of three men and the death of one by the Army in Khulna continues - 2007-03-12

BURMA: Villager arrested for parody of state propaganda on national development - 2007-03-12

UPDATE (India): Human rights activists threatened not to pursue cases against the women traffickers - 2007-03-12

UPDATE (Thailand): Important programme for victims of forced disappearances on 3rd anniversary of Somchai Neelaphaijit abduction - 2007-03-09

SRI LANKA: Brave woman exposes the unlawful arrest, detention and torture of a young fisherman - 2007-03-09

SRI LANKA: Atrocities in Sri Lanka: list of victims who were killed, arrested and disappeared since 2006 - 2007-03-09

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Intelligence wing investigating into torture case - 2007-03-09

PAKISTAN: Alleged attempted abduction and death threats of a local journalist by Intelligence officers - 2007-03-08

INDONESIA: Violent attack and deliberate police inaction in East Java - 2007-03-08

UPDATE (India): A dalit human rights activist suspected to be in the illegal police custody and his life under threat - 2007-03-06

UPDATE (Thailand): No progress into prosecution of army officers for killings - 2007-03-05

UPDATE (Burma): Jailed tuition teacher on hunger strike - 2007-03-05

INDIA: Alleged assault and sexual harassment of a man by the Border Security Force - 2007-03-05

UPDATE (Philippines): Farmers launch hunger strike to fight for their land - 2007-03-05

INDIA: No investigation into the alleged murder of a villager by Border Security Force - 2007-03-03

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Alleged fabrication of charges against 2 NGO leaders soon after the High Court's release orders - 2007-03-02

NEPAL: Legal aid NGO is denied access to detainees for their attempt to file a murder case against state security forces - 2007-03-02

INDIA: Deliberate police inaction into a brutal assault of a family - 2007-03-02

SRI LANKA: Alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of a 16-year-old boy by police in Eheliyagoda - 2007-03-01

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Court rejected bail petition of a man who made death threats to Santa's husband - 2007-02-28

BANGLADESH: Arbitrary detention of two prominent NGO leaders for two months since the state of emergency - 2007-02-28

INDONESIA: Alleged brutal torture and sexual abuse by the Banda Raya police - 2007-02-28

BANGLADESH: A bus driver severely assaulted and arrested on an unlawful charge by police - 2007-02-27

UPDATE (India): Gopen's bail application unreasonably rejected - 2007-02-27

CAMBODIA: 29 families face illegal eviction after the military disobeys a court order - 2007-02-26

SRI LANKA: List of some abducted persons for the last one year - 2007-02-26

PHILIPPINES: Alleged illegal arrest and torture of a farmer in Quezon - 2007-02-26

INDIA: Police torture of young man part of "investigation" - 2007-02-26

INDIA: Police remain inactive in the case of abduction of a minor in West Bengal - 2007-02-25

PHILIPPINES: Student leader extra-judicially murdered in Daet - 2007-02-23

UPDATE (Pakistan): Hateful policies of inaction by the state result in the brutal death of a young man from the Pakistan's minority Hindu community - 2007-02-23

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Torture victim Santa and her husband are under extreme death threats - 2007-02-23

CAMBODIA: Continuous demolition of village homes and the violent assault of a woman in Palin town - 2007-02-22

BANGLADESH: Brutal police torture of a man in Bogra district - 2007-02-22

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault of an innocent man by the Dodangoda police - 2007-02-21

INDIA: Alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of 7 rag pickers by the Baranagar police - 2007-02-21

INDIA/BANGLADESH: Alleged abduction of one Indian farmer by the Bangladesh Rifles - 2007-02-21

BURMA: Another villager appealing jail term for complaint against officials - 2007-02-19

UPDATE (Bangladesh): A prominent human rights defender falsely implicated with a murder case - 2007-02-16

UPDATE (Japan): Call for On-line petition for a justice of a man sentenced to death row by false accusation - 2007-02-16

UPDATE (Pakistan): No policemen arrested while medical report confirms brutal torture - 2007-02-16

CAMBODIA: Two women almost buried alive for protecting their land - 2007-02-16

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Court granted bail to two torture victims - 2007-02-14

PHILIPPINES: Widow and seven children in grave danger after husband shot dead in Iloilo - 2007-02-13

INDIA: A person allegedly killed and two seriously injured by the Border Security Force in Manipur - 2007-02-13

PHILIPPINES: Alleged abduction and torture of a young man by the police - 2007-02-12

SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan Navy allegedly attacks, arrests and assaults twelve fishermen from Negombo - 2007-02-12

SRI LANKA: Torture victim continues to be victimized more than three years after incident due to prolonged court delays - 2007-02-12

INDIA: Human rights activist detained in police custody on a frivolous charge - 2007-02-09

PAKISTAN: Three men allegedly tortured by the police; one man tortured to death in jail - 2007-02-09

PHILIPPINES: Killing of a farmer seeking land reform - 2007-02-09

UPDATE (Burma): Farmer released by Supreme Court - 2007-02-09

UPDATE (Burma): Appeal of persons wrongfully accused of treason going to court amid health concerns - 2007-02-08

INDIA: One man killed and two others seriously injured by the Indian paramilitary's firing in a church compound - 2007-02-08

SRI LANKA: Alleged brutal assault of a man by the Panadura police - 2007-02-08

UPDATE (Cambodia): Killing of a villager working against illegal land concession by a tycoon senator - 2007-02-08

SRI LANKA: Alleged forced disappearance of five more persons - 2007-02-07

UPDATE (Pakistan): Fifteen political activists are missing after their arbitrary arrest and detention - 2007-02-07

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Prolonged and arbitrary detention of two torture victims - 2007-02-07

PHILIPPINES: Further killings - seven people including a judge - 2007-02-06

INDIA: Police inaction in alleged assault and death threat against a human rights activist - 2007-02-06

PAKISTAN: Young girl allegedly raped by 11 persons and paraded naked - 2007-02-03

SRI LANKA: 14-year-old girl seriously traumatized by her class teacher - 2007-02-02

BANGLADESH: Alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of NGO leader by army in Satkhira - 2007-02-02

PAKISTAN: Police allegedly poisoned a young man through anus - 2007-02-02

PAKISTAN: Four women allegedly murdered and one man injured by relatives on the pretext of honor killing - 2007-02-01

THAILAND: Villager who complained of serious torture by army needs protection - 2007-02-01

UPDATE (Cambodia): Army generals of the opposition party were released on bail - 2007-02-01

BANGLADESH: Human rights defender and father hiding due to army harassment in Khulna - 2007-02-01

PAKISTAN: Police severed a young man's penis during torture - 2007-01-31

UPDATE (Cambodia): Development company allegedly frames and assaults villagers to seize property - 2007-01-31

INDIA: A woman repeatedly ill treated by in-laws; neglected by the police for two years - 2007-01-30

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Ongoing struggle for two businessmen arbitrarily arrested, tortured and detained by the army in Khulna district - 2007-01-29

CAMBODIA: One village chief illegally sells indigenous people's land to a private company in Mondolkiri province - 2007-01-29

HUNGER ALERT (Pakistan): About 500,000 fishermen will be jobless due to the government's unlawful long-term lease of two Islands to a company - 2007-01-29

THAILAND: Soldiers use martial law to intimidate and steal from villagers - 2007-01-29

BANGLADESH: Three men allegedly tortured by soldiers in Khulna; one dead - 2007-01-29

HUNGER ALERT (India): Government sleeps over 386 confirmed cases of Fluorosis in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh state - 2007-01-26

CAMBODIA: Governor illegally and violently evicts 229 village families - 2007-01-26

UPDATE (Cambodia): Sihanoukville governor orders 105 families to leave their homes within 7 days - 2007-01-26

INDIA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India fails to provide adequate remedy to a human rights defender in Uttar Pradesh - 2007-01-26

UPDATE (Burma): Further details of cases against person accused of treason & other offences - 2007-01-25

PAKISTAN: New attacks on media workers and organizations - 2007-01-25

UPDATE (Philippines): Police apparent cover up on Cabanit murder investigation reproved in Melo Commission hearing - 2007-01-25

BURMA: Young man allegedly tortured to death by police - 2007-01-24

SRI LANKA: A brutal killing of a pastor by the security forces in Jaffna - 2007-01-24

BANGLADESH: Around 3000 people arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police - 2007-01-24

INDONESIA: Woman severely injured by brutal assault while in detention by police in East Denpasar - 2007-01-23

CAMBODIA: Arbitrary arrest of army generals of the opposition parties - 2007-01-23

INDONESIA: Alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by Jakarta police - 2007-01-23

INDIA: Police inaction in an alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws due to the influence of the alleged perpetrators in West Bengal - 2007-01-22

PHILIPPINES: The alleged abduction and detention of two indigenous men by the State Military - 2007-01-19

UPDATE (Cambodia): Investment firm's alleged negligence destroys family home in blaze and then provides no compensation - 2007-01-19

UPDATE (Thailand): Four months of martial law under dictatorship; emergency rule in south to continue - 2007-01-19

BURMA: Appeal against unlawful conviction for treason & other offences of 8 men - 2007-01-18

UPDATE (Indonesia): Calls for official review of the supreme court acquittal of prime suspect in Munir's murder case - 2007-01-18

PAKISTAN: Three more persons disappeared after their alleged arrests by secret agents in Sindh province - 2007-01-17

INDIA: A 10 year delay for justice to a man due to deliberate and continuous inaction of state officials in West Bengal in violation of court orders - 2007-01-17

INDIA: Alleged killing of Nandigram villagers protesting against land acquisition by the state during a crash with CPI-M workers - 2007-01-16

INDONESIA: Increase in violence against human rights defenders by paramilitary groups - 2007-01-15

CAMBODIA: Two communities lose their land over a shady government contract. - 2007-01-15

UPDATE (Burma): Five former student activists released in amnesty to 2,831 prisoners - 2007-01-11

INDIA: Bangladeshi family is brutally assaulted by local thugs, expelled from their land and neglected by police - 2007-01-11

BANGLADESH: An alleged killing of a young man by the Rapid Action Battalion in Jessore after his arbitrary arrest and torture - 2007-01-10

UPDATE (Cambodia): Torture victim released on bail but charges against him still remain and no investigation has yet to start - 2007-01-10

PAKISTAN: Another Hindu girl forcibly converted to Islam after being abducted - 2007-01-09

SRI LANKA: Man illegally arrested and assaulted by excise officers - 2007-01-09

CAMBODIA: Nine families from a village in Phnom Penh are facing forced eviction by the municipal authority - 2007-01-08

UPDATE (Philippines): Court orders release of 9 torture victims for lack of evidence - 2007-01-08

INDIA: Deliberate police inaction into alleged dowry death despite the court order due to nexus between the police and the alleged perpetrator - 2007-01-08

NEPAL: Mentally deficient woman allegedly assaulted and raped by an army officer - 2007-01-05

UPDATE (Pakistan): A politician allegedly abducted once again by secret service agents after giving his statement in Sindh High Court - 2007-01-04

FORWARDED APPEAL (India): Alleged assault on a Member of Legislative Assembly of Dalit Panthers at Cuddalore - 2007-01-04

PHILIPPINES: Eight killed in separate incidents including six activists, a driver and one journalist - 2007-01-04

CAMBODIA: Four private businessmen allegedly grabbed the 130 hectares of public land in Tang Krasaing commune, Teok Pos district, Kompong Chnang province - 2007-01-03

CAMBODIA: Land grabbing leading to fraud charge and assault on owners - 2007-01-03

CAMBODIA: Forced eviction of 229 families in Sihanoukville - 2007-01-03


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