South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 SRINAGAR, February 28: A passenger was ruthlessly beat up and injured by  traffic police personnel in  Jammu-Srinagar highway in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The passenger namely Shafaqat Aslam Bhat of Nowgam Banihal, leaving him severely injured. was hospitalized  after he was beaten up by traffic police personnel in Qazigund along Jammu-Srinagar highway on Monday.

 SRINAGAR, February 28: A police inspector was shot at by the unidentified gunmen in Srinagar city in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir,  today, evening. A police inspector with Anti-Corruption Bureau identified as Sheikh Firdous, was shot at and injured by unknown gunmen near his residence in Dhobi Mohalla Batamaloo area of the city. 

February 28, 2022 PRAYAGRAJ (UP) : The Indian police have lodged an FIR against seven people for allegedly raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans during a public meeting at the Handia assembly constituency in Utter Pardash, in India ,officials claimed on Monday. The  Samajwadi Party candidate from Handia assembly seat, Hakim Lal Bind rejecting the police claim, said that the video has been released after “being dubbed by the people from the ruling party BJP” with a motive of making the election “Hindu vs Muslim”.He said the police should have checked the veracity of the video before registering a report.

Srinagar, February 28, 2022:  Indian police arrested a youth in south Kashmir Islamabad district in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The youth identified as Shahid Thoker son of Mohammad Iqbal Thoker resident of Nossipora Keegam Shopian was arrested during a surprise naka checking  by police in Islamabad district. 

Ahmadabad Gujarat, India February 28, 2022: The Sardarpura massacre, where a total of 33 people, all hailing from the minority Muslim community were killed in shockingly inhuman ways, was one of the nine cases related to the Gujarat riots that was investigated by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). Here’s a look at the massacre and its aftermath, particularly the trial and convictions in the case, as well as the curious terms of bail set for the convicts. 

February 28, 2022:  Activist Teesta Setalvad with Zakia Jafri whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former MP and Congress leader, who was hacked and burnt alive during the 2002 pogrom. 
Teesta Setalvad
I remember the date. I remember the smell. I remember the sound as my sandals gingerly navigated through shards of glass. I remember the smell of burnt and kerosene-soaked rubber tyres. It was, I will never forget, March 4, 2002.
In what remained of Gulbarg society, charred remains of Kasimbhai Mansuri, young wannabe lawyer Mohammad Sandhi, their family members and other victims were still there. Ahsan Jafri saab’s remains too were collected from the burning embers in front of his home on the fourth day after rioting began.
 

 Raipur, February 28, 2022 : Two women were killed by Indian forces in disturbed state Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district in India, a senior official said. The two women were killed on Sunday morning by Indian forces near Jabeli village under Naimed police station area when a joint team of different security forces including District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was out on an operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P told PTI. The police described them the members of rebellion demanding justice and Azadi from Indian hegemony.

 Sopore, February 27, 2022  : The Indian forces launched a cordon and search operation in north Kashmir’s Sopore town in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  Reports said a joint team of  Indian Army-s 22 Rashtriya Rifles  and Central Reserve Police Force sealed Fruit Mandi of the town and conducted searches in the area.

 New Delhi, February 27, 20221: Indian MP of Rashtriya Janata Dal ,Manoj Kumar Jha has said there is war like situation in India against the minorities as the government is backing the hate-peddlers.  Rashtriya Janata Dal MP ,Manoj Kumar Jha was speaking at the release of Document on ‘Genocide’  at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Saturday. Campus Front of India has released ‘Genocide’ a Document that highlights cases in a line with reference to the genocidal stages proposed by the various scholars. This document contextualises the Indian situation based on Gregory H Stanton’s ‘ten stages of genocide.

 WASHINGTON, DC ,February 26, 2022: Over 50 renowned intellectuals, thinkers, scholars and activists are converging at a virtual three-day Summit – called India On The Brink: Preventing Genocide. The summit, with sessions on February 26 through February 28, 2022 has been organized by over 20 global civil rights organizations. The goal of the summit is to draw attention to the looming genocide of Muslims in India and the international community’s moral obligation to take urgent steps in preventing it.  Adama Dieng, former UN under-secretary general and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General on Genocide; Anurima Bhargava, Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); Gregory Stanton, President, Genocide Watch; Janet Rice, Australian Senator; Jason Stanley, Professor, Yale University; Nicole Widdersheim, US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Prem Shankar Jha, veteran Indian journalist; Angana P. Chatterji, scholar, UC Berkeley; and Aakar Patel, former head of Amnesty International India, are among those who will address the summit.