{"id":208,"date":"2004-01-24T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/24\/human-rights-watch-expresses-concern"},"modified":"2004-01-24T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2004-01-24T14:40:22","slug":"human-rights-watch-expresses-concern-about-punjab-case-before-nhrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/24\/human-rights-watch-expresses-concern-about-punjab-case-before-nhrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch Expresses Concern about Punjab Case Before NHRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a89'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Brad Adams, Executive Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, addressed a <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/2004\/20040124\/punjab1.htm#13\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">press conference<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> in Amritsar, co-hosted by the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/09#a54\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> (AFDP) and the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.punjabjustice.org\/about\/ciip.htm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Committee for Information and Initiative in Punjab<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> (CIIP).&nbsp; Adams expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the proceedings of the Punjab illegal cremations matter, pending before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for eight years.&nbsp; This impinged on the credibility of the NHRC:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The commission had received the detailed CBI report in 1996, but had failed to appoint any investigation officer to look into the case so far, said Mr Adams.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">AFDP may intervene in the matter by filing a writ petition to expedite the NHRC investigation.<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\"><BR><\/P><\/FONT><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/jaskaran\/brad.jpg\" height=\"229\" width=\"230\" border=\"0\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><\/FONT>&#8220;&gt;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">[Picture from <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"1\">http:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/2004\/20040124\/punjab.htm]<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Adams, Executive Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, addressed a press conference in Amritsar, co-hosted by the Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab (AFDP) and the Committee for Information and Initiative in Punjab (CIIP).&nbsp; Adams expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the proceedings of the Punjab illegal cremations matter, pending before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhrc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}