On 12 August 2026, Pakistan’s military allegedly carried out an airstrike in Surab’s Gidar Goandhan area in Baluchistan, reportedly killing 30 civilians, including women, children and infants, and injuring dozens of others.[1] Pakistan’s military denied the allegation and stated that the casualties were instead caused by a premature explosion involving a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device […]
Tag: extrajudicial executions
Press Release: At least 51 persons killed in the elections in Pakistan Administered Kashmir – UN urged to form an investigation team to inquire
Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a NGO having Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, in a press release today stated that in the run up to the elections in Pakistan Administered Kashmir from 5 June to 10 August 2026, at least 51 persons including 45 civilians and six security personnel […]
Philippines: Over 22,983 cases of deaths under inquiry in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, the toll continues to rise
“If they are obstructing justice, you shoot them,” Duterte instructed police while ordering to kill them in a speech in August 2017. Lawyer Benjamin Ramos, one of the founding members of National Union of People’s Lawyers at the forefront of opposing President Rodrigo Duterte’s lethal war on drugs was gunned down on 7 November 2018, […]
Gujarat: NHRC recommends Rs. 100,000 compensation to the next of kin of victim of custodial death, Lallu Nayka
On 12 October 2011, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the NHRC with respect to the custodial death of Lallu Nayka (42 years) at Pardi police station in Valasad district of Gujarat on 22 September 2011. He was reportedly a witness in an unsolved murder case. On the night of 21 September […]




