Deal on reduced sentencing concerns rights defenders

A three-member panel representing the three major parties claims to have reached an agreement on reducing the sentence for serious conflict-era rights violators by three fourths.

With the major parties inching closer to finalising the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, a group of human rights activists have taken a serious exception to the agreement between the parties to guarantee reduction of 75 percent punishment to the guilty of serious violations of human rights.