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UPDATE (Nepal): Democracy to return to Nepal 

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu; UP-079-2006: N...

NEPAL: Rekindling the flame of democracy in Nepal

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) joins hands with the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Nepal who have successfully defeated a coup started on February 1, 2005 by the ...

UPDATE (Nepal): Call for intervention by the United Nations Secretary General and High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure the establishment of a constituent assembly and democratic government in Nepal 

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu; UP-079-2006: N...

NEPAL: International community’s response to King Gyanendra’s address criticised by detained Nepali activists 

Dear friends,   Please find a letter written to the international community by a group of Nepali activists being detained in Duwakot Armed Police barracks, criticising the response to King Gyanen...

NEPAL: Continuing fight for democracy by the people of Nepal 

Yesterday, April 22, we witnessed a in Kathmandu how revolutionary fervour transforms the poor and oppressed people to a determined force for change. The poor of Nepal who for centuries have lived on ...

NEPAL: World must support people’s aspirations to oust coup leader and restore democracy

After years of unbearable horrors, the people of Nepal are once more in the streets as they were in 1990, demanding democracy and human rights. The recent offer by coup leader Gyanendra to allow for a...

NEPAL: Coup leader Gyanendra must be ousted and brought to justice by popular demand

Demonstrations totalling hundreds of thousands of Nepalese citizens have continued unabated since April 6th, 2006, defying curfews and shoot-to-kill orders given to the security forces. The movement t...

NEPAL: Immediate solution to the growing crisis needed to avert catastrophe in Nepal

The human rights, humanitarian and political crisis in Nepal has hit a new low and demands an immediate solution. On the eve of the third week of widespread, legitimate popular protests against the di...

UPDATE (Nepal): Demonstrations continue in the face of further arrests and violence 

[RE: UP-077-2006: NEPAL: Nepal under curfew; UP-072-2006: NEPAL: Defacto emergency declared in Nepal; UA-117-2006: NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu] ——...

FORWARDED APPEAL (Asia): Current threats to Asian democracies

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you a statement issued by the World Forum for Democratization in Asia. The statement points specifically to the current state of...

UPDATE (Nepal): Nepal under curfew 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the escalating violence that is occurring in Nepal and the government’s decision to impose a curfew on the capital, Kat...

UPDATE (Nepal): Defacto emergency declared in Nepal 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is disturbed to know that King Gyanendra’s royal Government has imposed defacto emergency in Nepal. While thousands of people have taken to...

NEPAL: Nepal’s civil society must act now 

A Statement by the National Committee for Overseeing the Implementation of the 12 Point Agreement The twelve-point agreement of November 22, 2005 between the Seven Parties Alliance (SPA) and the Commu...

NEPAL: Shouts of an exhausted and anguished people must be heard

There is as of today, April 7, a de facto state of emergency in Nepal. Thousands of people have taken to the streets protesting against the government headed by King Gyanendra. Parts of the country ha...

NEPAL: Arrests made ahead of public rallies in the capital, Kathmandu 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with information regarding police in Nepal having detained more than 100 people for planning to defy a ban on public rallies in the capita...

UPDATE (Nepal): Constant threats and harassment of torture victim by the perpetrators 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding another threat to a torture victim, Mr. Hom Bahadur Bagale by the police administration, which are res...

NEPAL: Seventeen-year-old girl attempts self-immolation after repeated instances of torture by Tulsipur police and prison officials

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...

NEPAL: Custodial torture of a man followed by threats against his lawyer 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is in receipt of information regarding the torture of Mr. Nar Bahadur Bista by police personnel from Mahendranagar District Police Office on 1 Ma...

NEPAL: Torture victim faces continuous death threats due to his complaints to the courts 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the constant death threats made against and the harassment of a torture victim by his p...

NEPAL: Human rights defenders assaulted by personnel from the Royal Nepalese Army 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault of two human rights defenders by army personnel of the Ranadal Gulma on 13 ...