Human rights groups urge Nepal to reject amnesty legislation

[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) [advocacy websites] urged [press release] Nepalese legislators [official website] on Thursday to reject certain sections of the proposed Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) [text, PDF] bill for violating international law. The advocacy groups are concerned that the bill includes language from a 2012 executive order that allowed amnesty for crimes committed during Nepal's civil war. Nepal's Supreme Court rejected [JURIST report] this blanket amnesty legislation, ruling...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/amnesty-international-ai-human-rights.php

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