ACHR obtains compensation of Rs. 96,05,000 as of 28 January 2010
ACHR's actions including under its "National Campaign for Prevention of Torture in India" have led to the award of Rs 96,05,000 by the National Human Rights Commission of India as compensation for victims and/or their families in 39 cases involving 103 victims. The compensation also included government job for two relatives of the victims.
NHRC directs to explain 111 cases of fake encounters, 28 January 2010
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Acting on a complaint of the Asian Centre for Human Rights against extrajudicial execution of R K Sanjaoba, the nephew of former Manipur chief minister R K Joychandra, on 28 January 2010, the National Human Rights Commission of India directed State government of Manipur to explain 111 cases of fake encounters not reported to it...... Editorial: |
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State government of Mizoram invites ACHR for fact finding, December 2009
Responding to the concerns of the Asian Centre for Human Rights on the attacks on the Brus, the State government of Mizoram invited a Fact Finding Team of the ACHR to investigate the attacks on the minority Brus in the State in November 2010. The ACHR is the first human rights organisation to have been invited by any State government. The ACHR has published its fact finding report, The Brus of Mizoram: Unequal, Unwanted and Unwelcome, on 21 January 2010. The report concluded that Mizoram Government failed to protect the Brus: at least 383 houses were fully burnt, about 5,000 Brus were displaced out of which over 2,000 Brus crossed over to neighbouring Tripura State and joined about 35,000 Bru IDPs who had earlier fled in 1997 following similar communal attacks.
Magisterial Inquiries in Manipur, 12 November 2009
The menace of fake encounter killings in Manipur is well-known. Acting upon the complaints of the Asian Centre for Human Rights, the NHRC directed the State government of Manipur to conduct magisterial inquiries into the following complaints of the Asian Centre for Human Rights:
- Complaint of ACHR on fake encounter killing of Ningthoujam Anand Singh
Notification of the magisterial inquiry dated 12 November 2009 - Complaint of ACHR on fake encounter killing of Palungbam Kunjabihari
Notification of the magisterial inquiry dated 12 November 2009 - Complaint of ACHR on fake encounter killing of Illiaz Khan
Notification of the magisterial inquiry dated 12 November 2009
Punishment/prosecution of 35 perpetrators as of 11 May 2009In 14 complaints of human rights violations, the ACHR’s actions led to the punishment/prosecution of 35 perpetrators, including the dismissal of three law enforcement personnel from service and the arrest of three others pending trial. |
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Judicial proceedings in 14 complaints as of 9 March 2009
In 14 complaints of human rights violations filed by Asian Centre for Human Rights, NHRC has decided to close the complaints as the concerned courts have initiated proceedings for prosecution of the violators.
Delhi High Court orders against NHRC, December 2008
In this publication, ACHR's Actions Against Torture and other forms of Human Rights Violations in India, ACHR shares experiences of its action including the orders of the Delhi High Court in favour of ACHR pertaining to the writ petitions filed against the National Human Rights Commission of India. The NHRC is yet to comply with the directions of the High Court as of February 2010.
Debate in Indian Parliament, December 2008
ACHR's first ever nation-wide assessment of the use of torture reported in Torture in India 2008: A State of Denial created huge public debate in India. Apart from widespread news report, questions specifically relating to the report were raised both in the Lok Sabha on 23 December 2008 (Question No. 3542) and in Rajya Sabha (Question No. 565 and Question No. 568) on 22 October 2008 wherein the India's Minister of Home Affairs provided answers to the questions.
Editorial: Death in custody - A blot on the criminal justice system, The Tribune, 30 June 2009
Pakistan Bans ACHR Report, 25 January 2008
In an unprecedent move, the Provincial government of Punjab of Pakistan banned ACHR's report titled ‘Pakistan a land of religious apartheid and jackboot justice’ of August 2007 under Section 99- A of the Criminal Procedure Code. The report was submitted as a shadow report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the absence of the report from the State party i.e. Pakistan. The ACHR also sought the intervention of the UN CERD Committee.
Rights of the refugees
ACHR's specific intervention against the torture of Burmese refugees led to commitment from the goverment of India that the refugees whose applications are pending with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will not be deported and are free to exercise the right to freedom of association and assembly. The commitment was given to the NHRC after the ACHR filed a complaint against the torture of about 80 Burmese refugees by the Delhi Police. Read the NHRC's Press Release>>>