New Delhi: In response to the letter from the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on 26 June 2015 concerning the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Maldives against five members of the Human Rights Commission on the unlawfulness of the written submission of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) to the Second […]
(avialable at http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2015/246-15.html) New Delhi: Since the release of ACHR’s briefing paper “ Maldives: The case for a resolution at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council ” on 15 June 2015, the Government of Maldives has taken more draconian measures which call for adoption of a resolution at the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council. […]
– President Yameen putting his opponents in jail but not taking any action against those joining the Islamic State – New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights today called upon the UN Human Rights Council, which is holding its 29th session from today i.e.15th June 2015 in Geneva, to adopt a resolution on the deplorable human rights […]
NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the statement of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein which questioned the unfair and hasty trial for convicting Maldives’s ex-President Mohammed Nasheed to 13 years imprisonment under trumped up terrorism charges and called for respect for standards of fair trial including “adequate time […]
NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today called upon members of the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session on the situation in the Maldives following sentencing of former President Mohammed Nasheed to 13 years imprisonment under trumped up terrorism charges and urged the members of the UN Security Council to […]
Prosecutor General Muhthaz Muhsin and presiding Judge Abdulla Didi must be barred from travelling overseas NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today called upon the President of Maldives Mr Abdulla Yameen to immediately release former President Mohamed Nasheed, who has been in illegal detention on what can credibly be described as trumped up […]
