Human rights news
Police actions injured dozens mourners, 200 arrested
Srinagar, December 4, 2011: Scores of mourners were injured and more than 200 including Hurriyet leaders, Masroor Abass and Nisar Ahmad Rather were arrested when Indian police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel resorted to brute force and lobbed teargas shells to prevent them from taking out 8th Muharram processions In Sriangar. The authorities had imposed restrictions in the city to prevent the Muharram procession on Sunday December 4, 2011.
International Federation of Journalists concern over attacks on journalists in Kashmir
Srinagar, November 29: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins partner organisations in the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) has expressed serious concern over the attacks on news photographers reporting protests in Srinagar on November 25.
Over 50 protesters arrested since Friday protests in Kashmir
Srinagar, November 29, 2011: Over 50 people, including 21 minors, have been arrested by police since Friday for taking part in protests, a senior police officer said, claiming the crackdown against stone-throwers would continue. Among those detained were three children aged between nine and 12 years picked up by police.
Protests had erupted in different parts of Srinagar on Friday against the continued detention of political prisoners and minors.
14,231 custodial deaths from 2001 to 2010 in India and Kashmir: ACHR
New Delhi, November 21, 2011 : In New Delhi, the Asian Centre for Human Rights(ACHR), in a report said that 14,231 persons had been killed in custody in India from 2001 to 2010. The report pointed out that custodial rape remains one of the worst forms of torture perpetrated on women by law enforcement personnel in India.
In Kashmir, authority detains minors illegally, Boys detained without trial, girls sent to prisons: ACHR
New Delhi, Nov 16, 2011: In New Delhi, the Asian Centre for Human Rights in its fact finding report on Kashmir has said that a large number of children were detained under the draconian law, Public Safety Act during the uprising in 2010. The report deplored that the Act provided preventive detention for up to two years without producing a person to a court of law. The report mentioned that juveniles in Kashmir were being denied access to justice and benefits of the special protection to the minors.
Kashmiri civilian Abdullah Bhat was killed in a fake encounter in Janglat Mandi Islamabad
Srinagar, Oct 31 2011 : In Srinagar, the High Court has issued notices to regime led by Omar Abdullah and Indian Defence Ministry to file their objections within a
week regarding re-investigation of an fake encounter of a civilian identified as Abdullah Bhat son of Qadir Bhat of Machil, Kupwara that took place at Janglat Mandi, Islamabad in South Kashmir in 2001.
India bans Mirwaiz led ACC, Masroor Abbas Ansari's JKIM for 5 years in IIOJK
Mirwaiz, Masroor Ansari and APHC call ban as injustice, unfair
Missing Shopian youth found dead in Banihal
Srinagar, May 9 : Body of a 25-year-old missing youth was recovered under mysterious circumstances in Banihal town in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The deceased identified Aarif Ramzab Ganie of Shopian who went missing three days ago was recovered under mysterious circumstances near railway bridge of the town.
His wedding of the deceased was scheduled next week.. A probe has been initiated into the matter, officials said.
Calls for India to release Kashmiri political prisoners during devastating second Covid wave
Abdul Hameed Mir, 45, was detained by the authorities around the same time when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s government unilaterally announced changes in the constitutional and legal status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, effectively wiping out the semi-autonomy enjoyed by the region for generations.Picked up from his house in the Kupwara district of Kashmir, Mr Mir was then in prison for more than 18 months without charge when he lost his mother. He had moved a bail application in March to carry out the last rites. It was denied. “His mother kept waiting for nearly two years to get a single glance of her only son,” his brother-in-law, Sajjad Dar, told The Independent. “She was not granted that in life. And was denied that dignity even in death.
Kashmiri children among prisoners in India crackdown
Srinagar, 16 Oct 2019: More than two months after New Delhi revoked the special status article 370 of Indian occupied Kashmir, thousands of Kashmiris are still in jail, including some as young as nine-year-old.
