GA-02674 2016 relevance B public
Still Denied: Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims during the Mass Detention of 1965 in Indonesia (AJAR submission, 2016)
Still Denied: Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims during the 1965 Mass Detention (AJAR, 2016)
AJAR and partner submission to UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez (Oct 2016) arguing 1965 detainees' right to rehabilitation for torture remains denied, citing Law 26/2000 and stalled Komnas HAM findings; partners include women survivors' groups.
Masukan AJAR dan mitra kepada Pelapor Khusus PBB Juan Mendez (Okt 2016) yang menyatakan hak rehabilitasi korban penyiksaan tahanan 1965 masih diingkari, dengan merujuk UU 26/2000 dan temuan Komnas HAM yang macet; mitra termasuk kelompok penyintas perempuan.
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- Date
- 2016
- Creator
- AJAR
- Document type
- report (NGO human rights submission to a UN special procedure (shadow report with legal analysis, aggregated survivor data and an appendix of nine testimony-based case studies))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- Indonesia
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- asia-ajar.org · source link
- Access
- PDF published by Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), asia-ajar.org (exact download URL to record; likely in AJAR's publications/submissions section, October 2016). Open access NGO publication. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), KontraS, SKP-HAM Sulawesi Tengah, ELSAM, KIPPER, LAPPAN, & JPIT. (2016, October). Still denied: Right to rehabilitation for torture victims during the mass detention of 1965 in Indonesia [Submission to Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, OHCHR, Geneva]. Asia Justice and Rights.
- File
- 01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/AJAR (2016) - Still Denied, Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims during the Mass Detention of 1965 in Indonesia (submission).pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.953) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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