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Asian Human Rights Commission’s Concern About Abuses In South Asia
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
June 13, 2011
Criminalization Of Free Speech Ahead Of Election In Thailand
(AHRC STATEMENT) In May 2011, the government of Thailand announced that the country would go to a national election on July 3. It might have been expected that this announcement would result in a lessening of the threats against, and arrests of, persons trying to exercise free speech. In fact, the opposite is the case. Since the announcement over three weeks ago, the government seems to have gone into overdrive in its efforts to criminalize free speech, shutting down radio stations and ordering the arrest of dissident voices on the pretext that they are anti-royalist.
Bring All The Perpetrators Of Ram Hari Shrestha's Murder To Book In Nepal
(AHRC URGENT APPEALS) The AHRC has received updated information regarding the abduction and murder of a businessman, Ram Hari Shrestha, by members of the Maoist party in 2008. Although five Maoist cadres have been charged in the case, only one has been arrested so far and was sentenced on May 31 by the Chitwan District Court for three years imprisonment regarding his indirect involvement in the killing of the victim. However, he has already served his sentence while the case was under consideration in court. He is to face another trial on the same case under the charges of abduction at the Kathmandu District Court. No serious search has been undertaken to locate the four other accused and bring them to book.
Police try to cover-up custodial death as suicide in Manipur In India
(AHRC URGENT APPEALS) The AHRC has received information from the Human Rights Alert that the 12 Maratha Light Infantry stationed at Patsoi in Imphal West district of Manipur has tortured Mr. Salam Sanjoy to death whilst he was in custody. Local police have concluded that the case is one of suicide in custody, without conducting any investigation and within hours after the murder. It is alleged that the state police is trying to cover-up the murder and torture as suicide, as it has done in most other previous occasions when persons taken into custody by the military and para-military units stationed in Manipur die while in custody.
Torture Victim In Need Of Immediate Medical Treatment In Nepal
(AHRC URGENT APPEALS) The AHRC has received information regarding repeated torture inflicted on Mr. Kedar K.C. by a police from Hanumandhoka Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Kathmandu when under interrogation regarding his alleged involvement in a robbery case. The victim was denied medical treatment and was kept in the custody of the police team where they allegedly tortured him. It should be noted that Inspector Bhism Humagai who took part in the torture had already been accused of two cases involving the assault of detainees in 2010. Government Urged To Tackle Caste-Based Discrimination, Extra-Judicial Killings, Torture And Impunity In Nepal
(ALRC ORAL STATEMENT) 17th Session of the UN Human Rights Council:
During Nepal’s UPR, 24 states raised caste-based discrimination and Dalit rights. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) therefore welcomes the recent endorsement by the Parliament of the 'Untouchability Bill', which criminalizes the practices of 'untouchability' in the public and private spheres, but urges the government to implement its provisions effectively. We also urge the establishment of the National Dalit Commission as a statutory body, and the development of a national action plan to address caste-based discrimination comprehensively.
