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NHRC: Cooked up post mortem reports in the custodial death of Saukhi Lal Kushwah raises questions about criminal justice system

That autopsies are critical for the administration of justice is undisputed. In cases warranting death sentence, autopsy reports determine the issue of death or life. Yet, autopsy reports in India are often doctored by the medical professionals, raising serious questions about administration of justice. On 2 August 2013, the Asian Centre for Human Rights  (ACHR)submitted […]

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Sri Lanka: ACHR calls for international sanctions against murder of democracy by President Sirisena  

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s yesterday dissolved the parliament with effect from midnight Friday i.e. 9 November 2018 and called for general elections on 5th January 2019, two years ahead of the schedule. “This is nothing but the murder of democracy after failing to secure majority for the illegally-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in the […]

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Philippines: Over 22,983 cases of deaths under inquiry in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, the toll continues to rise

“If they are obstructing justice, you shoot them,” Duterte instructed police while ordering to kill them in a speech in August 2017. Lawyer Benjamin Ramos, one of the founding members of National Union of People’s Lawyers at the forefront of opposing President Rodrigo Duterte’s lethal war on drugs was gunned down on 7 November 2018, […]

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Rohingya refugees of Myanmar: Bangladesh is facilitating ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas in Arakan and indigenous Jumma peoples in the CHTs by using the fleeing Rohingyas

Inside: Executive summary The 2016 survey of the Rohingya refugees by the Government of Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees are mainly settled in the CHTs Bangladesh indirectly encouraging ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas in Arakan and ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples of the CHTs From refugees to rulers: The case of the Rohingya refugees becoming effective rulers […]