December 22, 2024
Bir Subba Gurung
Extrajudicial Killing Family attempted to file a FIR on December 10, 2009. Kaski DPO refused. They approached the Kaski CDO...
December 22, 2024
Bhuwani Prasad Poudel
Extrajudicial killing by Nepal Army Family attempted to file FIR on December 10, 2009. Police refused. It has not been...
December 22, 2024
Rajendra Ghimire
Extrajudicial Killing Family tried to file a FIR at Morang DPO on December 10, 2009 but police refused....
December 22, 2024
Arjun Bahadur Lama
Abduction and Extrajudicial Killing (by CPN-M) Maoists abducted Arjun Bahadur, a secondary school management committee president, on April 19, 2005...
December 22, 2024
Tek Bahadur Basnet
Extra-Judicial Killing On the early morning of October 24, 2002 (2059.7.7), at around 3, Tek Bahadur Basnet, aged 30, a...
December 22, 2024
Raj Kumar K.C.
Extra-Judicial Killing On the early morning of October 24, 2002 (2059.7.7), at around 4, Raj Kumar KC, aged 43, a...
December 22, 2024
Prakash Basnet
Extra-Judicial Killing On the early morning of October 24, 2002 (2059.7.7), at around 3, Prakash Basnet, aged 25, a farmer,...
December 22, 2024
Netra Bahadur Karki
Extra-Judicial Killing Around 3 a.m., October 24, 2002 (2059.7.7), Netra Bahadur Karki, aged 49, by profession a Village Health Worker,...
December 22, 2024
Daya Narayan Shrestha
Extra-Judicial Killing On 1 November, 2002, Daya Narayan Shrestha, 42, a teacher by profession, the permanent resident of Ramechhap district...
December 22, 2024
Uttara Kumari Katwal
Extrajudicial Killing by Nepal Army Family tried to file a FIR at Udayapur DPO in December 2007, but police refused....
December 22, 2024
Sahidullah Dewan
Extrajudicial Killing by Nepal Police Family attempted to file a FIR on December 18, 2009. Rupanedhi DPO refused. They also...
December 22, 2024
Ranga Nath Bhandari
Extrajudicial Killing Family attempted to file a FIR on December 10, 2009. Kanchanpur DPO refused. They also appealed to CDO...
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
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
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
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
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,...
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...
