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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
Arjun Bahadur Lama, 48 years in age, permanent resident of Chhatrebas
VDC -5, Dapcha in Kavre district was abducted by a group of Maoist
cadres, three in number, on 29 April 2005 (2062.1.16 BS) from the
premises of Sri Krishna Secondary School at Chhatrebas VDC-1 of the
district.
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Hari Prasad Bolakhe
Hari Prasad Bolakhe, 35 (while missing) a permanent resident of Phulbari VDC-8, Kavre district, a pastor by profession, had been missing since the arrest December 27, 2003, was reportedly killed by security persons. A team of National Human Rights Commission discovered a human skeleton in a jungle ...
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Sarala Sapkota
Around 11 p.m. on July 15, 2004, a group of 12 armed soldiers arrested
Sarala Sapkota at her grandfather’s house. The family, who witnessed the
arrest, stated that soldiers gave Sarala no reason for her arrest.
After her arrest, Sarala’s family went to Baireni barracks and the DPO ...
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Birendra Shah
On the evening of 5 October 2007, Mr. Birendra Shah, 34, resident of Inruwasira VDC-8, Bara district, a local journalist of Bara district and correspondent of Nepal FM, Avenues Television and Dristi weekly, was abducted by Maoists from Pipara Bazaar in Kalaiya, the district headquarters of Bara ...
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Bishwanath Parajuli, Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang
Three persons namely Bishwonath Parajuli (also called Nagendra
Parajuli), Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang of Hasandaha VDC,
Morang were shot dead by the security personnel on 28 September 2004.
According to the eyewitnesses, other victims and the villagers, about 16
people were arrested ...
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Chot Nath Ghimire and Shekhar Nath Ghimire
Chot Nath Ghimire, a 58-year-old farmer, resident of Ishaneshor VDC-4,
Ratamate Majhpokhari of Lamjung district was allegedly arrested by the
Joint Security Forces of Joint Security Camp stationed at Bhorlatar VDC,
Lamjung district on February 2, 2002 (2058.10.20). The security camp
called Mr. ...
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Bhauna Tharu
Bhauna Tharu (Bhauna Chaudhary in the citizenship card), 21 years old
male (at the time of the incident; Date of Birthe: 8 September 1978),
son of Purna Bahadur Chaudhary, permanent resident of Sujanpur village,
Neulapur VDC-4, Bardiya district, and an employee of Rastriya Gobar Gas,
Gulariya, ...
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Letter Submitted to PM Regarding Torture Bill
19 April 2012. Advocacy Forum and REDRESS submitted a joint letter to the Prime Minister regarding the torture bill that is about to be tabled in the parliament. Welcoming the initiative taken by the government in criminalizing torture, the organizations have requested it to make the bill that complies with Nepal’s international obligations to human rights instruments. (Click Letter To PM for the full text).
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TRC and DC Should Meet International Standards: NHRC
19 April 2012. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent a letter to the government recommending it to form Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Disappearance Commission (DC) that meet the international standard. In the letter dated 17 April and addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, NHRC Chairman Kedarnath Upadhyaya has requested the PM to pay attention to international standard.
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Human Rights Community in Agitation
18 April 2012. Human rights activists and leaders of the civil society launched a pressure campaign for the prompt formation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Disappearance Commission (DC). Today the pressure group staged a sit-in and demonstration in front of Constituent Assembly (CA) premises at New Baneshwar, Kathmandu.Consensus built to table TRC and DC Bills before Parliament
2 April 2012. Possibility to form the much-awaited Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) and Disappearance Commission (DC) has heightened as the top leaders of three major political parties- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (UML) - agreed on Saturday to entrust Ministry of Law and Justice with the responsibility to finalize the draft TRC and DC Bills.
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Court Awards Compensation
29 March 2012. The District Court of Kathmandu has today issued an order to award torture survivor Mr. Bharat Sharma a compensation amounting to NRs. 20,000/- under the Torture Compensation Act (TCA) 1996. However, the court has refrained from issuing departmental action against the perpetrator because the individual perpetrator was not identified.
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DC former Verdict Quashed
29 March 2012. The Patan Appellate Court has today quashed the order of the Kathmandu District Court vis-à-vis case forward of torture survivor Arjun Gurung to the Court Mediation Centre. A joint bench of Justice Aakraj Acharya and Hari Kumar Pokhrel has issued an order to reverse the former order of the district court.
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AF Workshop on Medico-legal Examination Conducted
23 March 2012. Many victims of torture in Nepal are deprived of proper justice and compensation in the absence of adequate medical evidence confirming torture or other cruel and inhuman treatment on them.
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AF and AHRC Jointly Submit Separate Open Letters to Big Three against Blanket Amnesty
9 March 2012. In three separate open letters issued yesterday, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and Advocacy Forum (AF) have urged the leaders of big three political parties, Nepali Congress (Click Letter To Koirala for the full text), the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) (Click Letter To Khanal for the full text) and the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (Click Letter To Dahal for the full text) not to include provisions providing blanket amnesty to perpetrators of grave human rights violations in the text of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bill.
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Ratification of the Third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure
28 February 2012. An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission, Advocacy Forum, Concern for Children and Environment (Concern) Nepal, Backward Society Education (BASE) Nepal and Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (Himrights) to the Prime Minister of Nepal. (Click Letter To PM for the full text).
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Rape and Torture Victims Demand Justice
27 February 2012. In two recent programs organized by Advocacy Forum (AF) in Surkhet and Kanchanpur districts, women victims of sexual violence and torture demanded that the stakeholders of justice system pay attention to their demands for full justice. Still suffering from physical and psychological scars of the conflict, these victims strongly opposed the government's attitude of excluding them from internal relief they are entitled to.
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