Human Rights Monitoring Report

April 1 – 30, 2017

Extrajudicial killings
Torture and inhuman treatment
Enforced disappearances
Public lynching
Political violence
Collecting information of leaders of the opposition parties by
Special Branch of Police
Electoral system and local government
Hindrance to freedom of assembly
Hindrance to freedom of expression and the media
Situation of workers’ rights
Extremism and human rights
Bangladesh-India relations
Violence against Women
Activities of Odhikar hindered

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

United Nations Human Rights Council
27th Session, Geneva, Switzerland
May 1-12, 2017

Press Release, ADVOCACY FORUM - NEPAL

17 April 2017

The District Court Kavrepalanchowk Convicts Three out of Four Army Officers Accused of Maina's Murder

Kathmandu: Today, after 13 years of legal battle, the District Court of Kavrepalanchok has convicted perpetrators involved in Maina's murder. The court has acquitted one of them, who is still serving the army. (For more detail of the case see, Maina Sunuwar: Separating Facts from Fiction, http://advocacyforum.org/downloads/pdf/publications/maina-english.pdf.)

Five years of disappearance, police yet to find BNP leader M. Ilias Ali

Five years have passed since former BNP lawmaker M. Ilias Ali disappeared without a trace, and the law enforcers have failed to find him. Ilias Ali was an Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the time of his disappearance, along with his chauffeur Mohammad Ansar on the night of April 17, 2012. Police later found his car near his home at Banani, Dhaka.