December 22, 2024
Birendra Shah
On the evening of 5 October 2007, Mr. Birendra Shah, 34, resident of Inruwasira VDC-8, Bara district, a local journalist...
December 22, 2024
Sunil Rajbanshi
Sunil Rajbanshi was a Maoist activist. On 9 January 2004, policeman Dev Narayan Yadav and an unidentified army man chased...
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
Sarala Sapkota
Around 11 p.m. on July 15, 2004, a group of 12 armed soldiers arrested Sarala Sapkota at her grandfather’s house....
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
Mukunda Sedhai (Disappearance)
On 19 December 2003, Mukunda Sedai was arbitrarily arrested by plain-clothes men while playing cards at a tea stall nearby...
December 22, 2024
Hari Prasad Bolakhe
Hari Prasad Bolakhe, 35 (while missing) a permanent resident of Phulbari VDC-8, Kavre district, a pastor by profession, had been...
December 22, 2024
Chot Nath Ghimire and Shekhar Nath Ghimire
Chot Nath Ghimire, a 58-year-old farmer, resident of Ishaneshor VDC-4, Ratamate Majhpokhari of Lamjung district was allegedly arrested by the...
December 22, 2024
Subhadra Chaulagain (Extrajudicial Killing)
On the night of 12 February 2004, around fifty to sixty armed and uniformed members of the then Royal Nepal...
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
Doramba Incident
On 17 August 2003, 17 unarmed CPN-M cadres and 2 civilians were arrested whilst conducting a meeting inside a civilian...
December 22, 2024
Bishwanath Parajuli, Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang
Three persons namely Bishwonath Parajuli (also called Nagendra Parajuli), Tom Nath Poudel and Dhan Bahadur Tamang of Hasandaha VDC, Morang...
Emblematic Cases
11Among 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
73First 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
Man Bahadur Rai
On 20 September 2002, Friday at around 3 pm, four security personnel in civilian dresses asked Man Bahadur Rai, resident...
Human Rights Committee Submissions
6Advocacy 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...
Torture Compensation Cases
4Advocacy 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.
December 22, 2024
Nijamiddin Sekh
Mr. Nijamiddin Sekh alias Bablu, 21, a permanent resident of Nepalgunj Municipality-16, Bilaspur, Banke district was arrested by police at...
December 22, 2024
Harkali Pun
Ms. Harkali Pun, 49, a permanent resident of Motipur VDC- 6, Mangalpur, Bardiya district was arrested by women staffs of...
October 13, 2011
Arjun Gurung
Case Summary: On Aug 8, 2009, policemen arrested Arjun Gurung citing that they had something to ask him about a robbery...
