“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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Gujarat: NHRC recommends Rs. 100,000 compensation to the next of kin of victim of custodial death, Lallu Nayka
On 12 October 2011, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the NHRC with respect to the custodial death of Lallu Nayka (42 years) at Pardi police station in Valasad district of Gujarat on 22 September 2011. He was reportedly a witness in an unsolved murder case. On the night of 21 September […]


