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Krishna Adhikari
On 6 June 2004, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, a resident of Fujel village of Gorkha District, was murdered in Chitwan District by Maoist cadres. Krishna Prasad was visiting his grandparents after having taken the SLC examinations, and he was abducted from Bakullahar Chowk by men who came on a motorcycle ... Maina Sunuwar
Around 6 am on February 17, 2004, a group of RNA soldiers arrested Ms
Maina Sunuwar, a 15-year-old schoolgirl of Kharelthok VDC-6, Kavre
district. She disappeared since her arrest. Her family members, with
support from villagers and school where Maina was a student, visited
detention centers ... Sanjeev Kumar Karna
Sanjeev Kumar Karna was one among the 11 persons arrested on October 8, 2003. On that fateful day, they had gone to attend a picnic program organized by the students at a place called Kariyachauri VDC-4, and from picnic, they went to Kataiya Chowri Area of Dhanusha district where they ate some food ... Arjun Bahadur Lama
Hari Prasad Bolakhe
Sarala Sapkota
Birendra Shah
Bishwanath Parajuli, Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang
Chot Nath Ghimire and Shekhar Nath Ghimire
Bhauna Tharu
AF Organized National Training for Lawyers
AF Organized National Training for Lawyers
November 2016. Advocacy Forum – Nepal (AF) organized a two days residential National Level Litigation Training for Lawyers on "National and International Standards in the Litigation of Torture Cases" from 27 to 29 October 2016 in Dhulikhel, Kavre district. The training was mainly focused on national and international standards on the prohibition of torture, international jurisprudence, documentation and collection of evidences for litigating torture cases at domestic and international level, international mechanism for the litigation on torture cases and implementation, collection of forensic evidences in physical and mental torture cases, transitional justice mechanisms and victims' perspectives, experience sharing and updating current situation of TJ process in Nepal and documentation and collection of evidence in torture cases and other serious human rights violations for litigation at international level.
Likewise, in the training victims of emblematic cases from conflict period shared their experience and group discussions were also done. Altogether, 40 lawyers from 12 districts participated in the training. The program was supported by European Union and jointly organized by Advocacy Forum – Nepal and REDRESS Trust.
AF Organized Regional Consultation Meetings
November 2016: AF organized consultation meetings on "Torture in Nepal, Existing Laws and Proposed Anti-torture Bill" in Kanchanpur, Banke, Kaski, and Morang districts. In the meeting, more than 150 participants including judges, public prosecutors, defence lawyers, police officers and stakeholders of criminal justice system were participated. In the meeting, judges presented papers and in-depth discussions were done on the prevailing situation of torture in Nepal, national and international laws on prohibition of torture, weaknesses of existing laws and provisions of the proposed anti-torture bill.
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