– President Yameen putting his opponents in jail but not taking any action against those joining the Islamic State – New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights today called upon the UN Human Rights Council, which is holding its 29th session from today i.e.15th June 2015 in Geneva, to adopt a resolution on the deplorable human rights […]
-UN and Bangladesh making them easy prey to traffickers and terrorists- New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a report (https://www.achrweb.org/Review/2015/244-15.html) released today stated that the United Nations and the Government of Bangladesh have been deliberately making the Rohingyas easy prey to the traffickers and terrorists, and over 200,000 undocumented Rohingyas in Bangladesh are essentially waiting to […]
NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the statement of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein which questioned the unfair and hasty trial for convicting Maldives’s ex-President Mohammed Nasheed to 13 years imprisonment under trumped up terrorism charges and called for respect for standards of fair trial including “adequate time […]
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 […]
Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin and presiding Judge Abdulla Didi must be barred from travelling overseas NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today called upon the President of Maldives Mr Abdulla Yameen to immediately release former President Mohamed Nasheed, who has been in illegal detention on what can credibly be described as trumped up […]
NEW DELHI: Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War”, released today stated that about 90 people have been killed and more than a thousand were injured in the ongoing violent anti-government protests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alliance demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights welcomed the commutation of death sentence of Surinder Singh Koli, prime accused of the Nithari serial killings, into life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court today on the grounds of delay of three years and three months as a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row […]
