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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by allegations of the rape of a 15-year-old girl by a member of the Nepal Army, Ram Narayan Bhattari, and a civilian, Yadav ...

NEPAL: British Government is officially hosting the Chief of the Army Staff of the Nepal Army 

As human rights defenders, we are very concerned by the news that the British Government is officially hosting the Chief of the Army , General Rukmangat Katuwal in London this week. At the time of the...

NEPAL: British Government is officially hosting the Chief of the Army Staff of the Nepal Army

As human rights defenders, we are very concerned by the news that the British Government is officially hosting the Chief of the Army , General Rukmangat Katuwal in London this week. At the time of the...

NEPAL: Army shoots and kills 12-year old girl

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the alleged extra-judicial killing of 12-year old girl Kamala Shah by a member of the Nepalese army on June 2...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one woman was denied to file First Information Report (FIR) the District Police Office and the District Administrat...

WORLD: An appeal to Muslim scholars throughout the world

(The case of a teenage girl facing the death sentence in Saudi Arabia as the result of a tragedy being misunderstood as a crime) The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing this appeal to all the Mus...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports that a torture and sexual molestation victim, 30 year-old widow Ms. Kalpana Bhandari, has received serious threat...

NEPAL: Government’s flawed disappearance probe commission an attempt at extending impunity

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Government of Nepal on June 21, 2007 to form a ‘High Level Probe Commission on Disappeared Persons’...

NEPAL: Advocacy Forum releases report on the occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 

on June 26, 2007, and focuses on the ongoing problem of torture in Nepal. It is based on the daily monitoring of 35 police detention centres in Nepal, during which Advocacy Forum has alone documented ...

ASIA: To eliminate torture police reform must be given a central place in the human rights concerns of Asia

They heard the thud of wood on flesh. Boot on bone. On teeth. The muffled grunt when a stomach is kicked in. The muted crunch of skull on cement. The gurgle of blood on a man’s breath when his l...

WORLD: UN Human Rights Council adopts institution-building text

The adoption of on the President’s text is an important achievement. We thank Ambassador de Alba and congratulate him on his untiring efforts over the last year to bring the Council to this point. Wi...

ASIA: When is an enforced disappearance “clarified”?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2007 ALRC-OL-001-2007 An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances Mr. Santiago Corcuera Chairperson Working Group on enforced and i...

NEPAL: Alleged brutal attack of villagers by police in Dhanusha district

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner in Nepal, the Advocacy Forum, of the alleged brutal attack on the villagers in Laxmipur Bagewa VDC, Dhanus...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner in Nepal, the Advocacy Forum, of the alleged appalling rape of a 14-year-old mentally ill girl by three po...

UPDATE (Nepal): Alleged torture of other 13 men by police in Kathmandu

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of two further cases of arbitrary arrest and torture connected to the case of the brutal torture and attempted rape of one w...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, has been refus...

NEPAL: Two alleged brutal torture cases committed by Banke district police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Advocacy Forum, regarding two alleged brutal torture cases taken place in Banke district in ...

NEPAL: Alleged brutal torture and attempted rape of a woman by Police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees th...

NEPAL: Human rights defender threatened for publishing book on violations by the military

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about threats to which human rights defender Mr. Jitman Basnet of Solukhumbu District, Nepal, was subjected on May 21, 2...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about continuing threats, including death threats, and harassment allegedly being perpetrated by members of the Communis...