Cases

We put our utmost effort in ensuring justice prevails for every case we represent.

December 22, 2024

Data Ram Timsina

Extrajudicial Killing On September 28, 2003, officers of the Eastern Regional Army Headquarters in Itahari, and security personnel from Morang...

December 22, 2024

Hari Prasad Bolakhe

Extrajudicial Killing On December 27, 2003, police arrested Hari Prasad at a bus stop. When his father went to the...

December 22, 2024

Jag Prasad Rai, Dhanan-jaya Giri, Madhuram Gautam, and Ratna Bahadur Karki

Extrajudicial Killings According to witnesses, on December 18, 2004 security forces arrested and killed these four men in four separate...

December 22, 2024

Jaya Lal Dhami

Extrajudicial Killing On February 12, 2005, security forces killed Jaya Lal Dhami. Villagers later reported that soldiers marched Jaya Lal...

December 22, 2024

Keshar Bahadur Basnet

Enforced Disappearance and Extrajudicial Killing On March 11, 2002, Keshar Bahadur Basnet was beaten by soldiers at his office and...

December 22, 2024

Lapten Yadav, Ram Nath Yadav, Shatru- ghan Yadav, Rajgir Yadav, and Ram Pukar Yadav

Extrajudicial Killings On October 1, 2004, security personnel arrested these five men from their homes. According to eyewitnesses, they were...

December 22, 2024

Maina Sunuwar

Extrajudicial Killing In the morning of February 17, 2004 Soldiers picked up 15-year-old Maina Sunuwar from her home. When her...

December 22, 2024

Nar Bahadur Budha-magar and Ratan Bahadur Budha-magar

Extrajudicial Killings On August 17, 2004 soldiers picked up two brothers, Nar Bahadur and Ratan Bahadur, from their house, and,...

December 22, 2024

Chandra Bahadur B.K

Possible Torture and Extrajudicial Killing Soldiers arrested 17-year-old Chandra Bahadur B.K. at his home, on January 8, 2003. Three days...

December 22, 2024

Sohan Lal Chaudhari / Radhakishan Chaudhari

Extrajudicial Killings by Nepal Army Family attempted to file a FIR on December 10, 2009. FIR has still not been...

December 22, 2024

Chhatra Bahadur Pariyar, Phurwa Sherpa, Prabhu-nath Bhattarai, Prasad Gurung, Tanka Lal Chaudhari and Sunita Risidev

Extrajudicial Killings On April 26, 2006 a group of security personnel opened fire on people demonstrating against the killing of...

December 22, 2024

Sunil Rajbanshi

Extrajudicial Killing by Nepal Police FIR not registered despite Ilam Appellate Court order of April 20, 2010...

Emblematic Cases

Among the hundreds of cases documented, Advocacy Forum has selected altogether 15 representative cases that show an endemic pattern of obstruction of justice, brazen abuse or total disregard of the law and deliberate attempts to escape accountability. The cases are also selected on the basis of their availability of evidence and wider public appeal. AF launches campaigns with other national and international organizations to establish accountability in those cases with a view to opening the door of justice to thousands of other similar cases.

December 22, 2024

Krishna Adhikari

On 6 June 2004, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, a resident of Fujel village of Gorkha District, was murdered in Chitwan District...

December 22, 2024

Arjun Bahadur Lama

Arjun Bahadur Lama, 48 years in age, permanent resident of Chhatrebas VDC -5, Dapcha in Kavre district was abducted by...

December 22, 2024

Bhauna Tharu

Bhauna Tharu (Bhauna Chaudhary in the citizenship card), 21 years old male (at the time of the incident; Date of...

First Information Reports

First Information Report (FIR) is a formal complaint lodged with the police or District Administration Office by the victim of a cognizable offence or by someone on his/her behalf. As per the existing legal system in Nepal, victims or their representatives do not have direct access to the courts. In criminal cases, police have exclusive jurisdiction to investigate and process evidence to the public prosecutors who then register the cases in court. However, the police authorities not only dillydally to register FIRs but also fail to carry out effective investigations. AF has been helping victims and their families to file FIRs and seeking mandamus orders for the effective investigations on the cases.

December 22, 2024

Abdul Jalil Musalman

Attempted Murder Family attempted to file a FIR on December 10, 2009. Udayapur DPO refused. They also appealed to CDO...

December 22, 2024

Dharmendra Barai

Dharmendra Barai, 14, son of Hariram Barai and Vidhyawati Barai, a permanent resident of Gonaha VDC-2, Puraini, Rupandehi district was...

December 22, 2024

Dilli Prasad Sapkota

Case Summary Extrajudicial Killing (after Torture) A large group of security personnel arrested Dilli Prasad Sapkota on February 8, 2005....

Human Rights Committee Submissions

Advocacy Forum is the first organization in Nepal to use individual complaint mechanism under the First Optional Protocol of International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). According to the said protocol, individuals, whose countries are party to the ICCPR and the protocol, who claim their rights guaranteed by the ICCPR have been breached, and who have exhausted existing domestic legal remedies in the pursuit of justice, can submit written communications to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC). This particular effort of AF has opened the space of Nepali lawyers to international litigation.

December 22, 2024

Dev Bahadur Maharjan (Illegal Detention, Torture, Disappearance)

Dev Bahadur Maharjan was arrested on 26 November 2003 by members of the Nepal Army. He was illegally detained at...

December 22, 2024

Manau Case (Mass Disappearances)

On the night of 11 April 2002, eight youngsters- Dhaniram Tharu, Soniram Tharu, Radhulal Tharu, Prem Prakash Tharu, Kamala Tharu,...

December 22, 2024

Mukunda Sedhai (Disappearance)

On 19 December 2003, Mukunda Sedai was arbitrarily arrested by plain-clothes men while playing cards at a tea stall nearby...

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Torture Compensation Cases

Advocacy Forum legally intervenes on behalf of detainees who claimed to have been tortured by police and forest officers in government detention facilities. Upon consent by victims, AF attorneys register suits, and represent victims in court seeking for torture compensation under the Torture Compensation Act -1996 and necessary action against the perpetrators.