{"id":270,"date":"2004-04-01T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T10:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/01\/nhrc-orders-solicitation-of-affidavi"},"modified":"2004-04-01T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T10:25:30","slug":"nhrc-orders-solicitation-of-affidavits-from-victim-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/01\/nhrc-orders-solicitation-of-affidavits-from-victim-families\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRC Orders Solicitation of Affidavits from Victim Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a158'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">After eight years of fighting over legal issues in the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/NHRC-2003-12-15\">Punjab illegal cremations matter<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, on March 17, 2004, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ordered the Punjab government to publish a notice in several Punjab newspapers, soliciting affidavits by survivors of disappearances and extrajudicial executions from all of Punjab.&nbsp; This notice will include the names of victims who have already been identified in the proceedings, all from Amritsar district, but also ask for affidavits from other survivors of disappearance\/killing perpetrated by Punjab&#x2019;s security forces.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">This is a tremendous development and represents a change in track from the previous hearings.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the last hearing in November, Justice Anand, the chair of the NHRC, had called for the reframing of issues.&nbsp; This discussion was not pursued further at the March 17 hearing.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/09#a54\">Association of the Families of the Disappeared<\/A> will be coordinating the effort to collect affidavits and proformas in response to the NHRC notice, when it is published in May 2004. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Punjab Justice website has <A href=\"http:\/\/www.punjabjustice.org\/news\/update.htm\">summaries of the latest NHRC hearings<\/A>.&nbsp; Read the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/NHRC-2004-03-17\">full order<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> from the last hearing.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years of fighting over legal issues in the Punjab illegal cremations matter, on March 17, 2004, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ordered the Punjab government to publish a notice in several Punjab newspapers, soliciting affidavits by survivors of disappearances and extrajudicial executions from all of Punjab.&nbsp; This notice will include the names [&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-270","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\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}