SHRC

Death of remand prisoner in 2019: SHRC recommends compensation to legal heirs

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Death of remand prisoner in 2019: SHRC recommends compensation to legal heirs

The State Human Rights Commission on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) recommended that the Tamil Nadu government pay a compensation of ₹3 lakh to the legal heirs of a 60-year-old remand prisoner, who suffered chest pain and was later declared ‘brought dead’ by a hospital in Salem in October 2019. SHRC member V. Kannadasan recommended that … Read more

Pakistan: Govt hospitals in Sindh’s Shikharpur and Kashmore Kandhkot lack clean drinking water, sanitation

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Pakistan: Govt hospitals in Sindh’s Shikharpur and Kashmore Kandhkot lack clean drinking water, sanitation

A team of the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) found unavailability of clean drinking water, absence of cleanliness and sanitation, power outages with no backup systems, poor infrastructure, and shortage of staff in government hospitals in Shikarpur and Kashmore-Kandhkot districts of Pakistan’s Sindh on Thursday and Friday, The Express Tribune reported. SHRC Chairman Iqbal Ahmed … Read more