NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today called upon members of the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session on the situation in the Maldives following sentencing of former President Mohammed Nasheed to 13 years imprisonment under trumped up terrorism charges and urged the members of the UN Security Council to […]
The State of Assam has been consistently ranking top in juvenile delinquency among the eight north eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. In 2011, Assam topped the list with 405 cases (402 of IPC crimes and 3 SLL crimes), followed by Meghalaya with 98 IPC crimes, Arunachal Pradesh […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh who were convicted in the Bara […]
