ACHR urges President of UN Human Rights Council for removal of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for bias

ACHR welcomes commutation of death sentence of Krishna Mochi & others by President Pranab Mukherjee

New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the commutation of death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh by President Pranab Mukherjee. They were convicted in the Bara massacre case of 13 February 1993 in Bihar. The State Government […]

Assam Riots: Preventable but not prevented

Since 20 July 2012, the riots in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) consisting of Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar and Udalgiri districts, and neighbouring Dhubri district of Assam have claimed about 90 lives as on 31 August 2012 and displaced over 400,000 people. This internal displacement has been variedly described as the largest one since India’s […]

Custodial violence: Culture of impunity must come to end

Available at The Tribune 03 June 2019 Despite signing the UNCAT in 1997, India has not ratified it, due to which getting fugitives extradited from foreign countries also becomes difficult The alleged custodial death of a 58-year-old man at the Bawana police station in Delhi has once again brought to the fore the inhuman face […]