FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2010 ALRC-STM-002-2010 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDIA: AFSPA promotes armed insurgency in Manipur On 5 November 2010, Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila, a Manipuri poet and human rights defender, will complete ten years of her indefinite hunger strike in Imphal, Manipur state. Sharmila started her fast on 5 November 2000, three days after the Malom massacre in Manipur. On that day, the Assam Rifles, a paramilitary unit stationed in the state, killed 10 civilians including women and children in an inhuman and vengeful act of retaliation, responding to an earlier ambush staged by the armed insurgents against the Assam Rifles. A decade since the […]
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INDIA: Conscientious review required on the draft law against torture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2010 ALRC-STM-001-2010 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDIA: Conscientious review required on the draft law against torture The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the passing of the Prevention of Torture Bill 2010 by the Lok Sabha. The Bill to become a law will require it to be passed by the Rajya Sabha, before it is send to the President of India for assent. The ALRC is of the opinion that widespread practice of torture is the central deficit of India’s democracy. The AHRC’s review of the Bill is entitled Public debates required for a […]