In Custody [electronic resource] : Law, Impunity and Prisoner Abuse in South Asia

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramakrishnan, Nitya.

Series:

SAGE Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detention of persons--Abuse of--South Asia.

Detention of persons.

Prisoners--South Asia.

Prisoners.

Human rights--South Asia.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 p.)

Other Title:

SAGE Law

In custody

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<p class=""ABOUTBOOKAI"" style=""margin: 12pt 0in 5pt;""><b>In Custody</b> examines the professed and actual commitment to custodial justice on the part of six South Asian countries. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have all been affected by the geopolitics of colonialism. Nineteenth century Europe is often simplistically seen as the ideological source of the rights discourse in South Asia. But, like any ideological theme, the discourse on rights is also a negotiated space. Resistance created a need to justify imperialism by importing a purpose to it. Regulation of

Contents:

11 - Subverting Due Process: The Force of Religion and the Force of Necessity 12 - The Judiciary ; 13 - International and Statutory Commitments ; 14 - Correcting the Custodians ; Section Three: Bangladesh ; 15 - Martial Law and Other Regimes: 1971-2010 ; 16 - International Commitments and Domestic Legal Framework ; 17 - Court Directives and Recommendations of Judicial Commissions ; 18 - Case Studies ; Section Four: Sri Lanka ; 19 - History and Politics ; 20 - The Constitution and Emergency Legislation ; 21 - Criminal Law and Custodial Justice

22 - International Law: Obligations and Compliance 23 - Enforced Disappearances ; Section Five: Nepal ; 24 - An Overview ; 25 - The 1990 Constitution ; 26 - Accountability under the Interim Constitution ; 27 - The Army ; 28 - Nepal's Legal Framework ; 29 - The Torture Compensation Act, 1996 ; 30 - The Courts and Custodial Justice ; 31 - Five Case Studies ; 32 - Two Interviews with Law Enforcers ; Section Six: Afghanistan ; 33 - The Land and the People ; 34 - The Afghan Nation State and the Great Game ; 35 - 1920-1978: Challenges to Constitutionalism

36 - Human Rights and the Soviet Occupation (1978-1992) 37 - Terror and Counter Terror ; 38 - Afghanistan's Human Rights Norms ; 39 - Criminal Justice and the State of Human Rights ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

81-321-1751-4

81-321-1632-1