South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 New York, January 27: The Members of the global Indian diaspora and citizens in many countries have voiced concern over the persecution of 18 students and activists under a draconian law for challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) and sought immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all charges against them. The wide-ranging global actors in a statement said they “believe the ‘Delhi 18’ are being targeted as reprisal for their democratic dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.” The representatives of diaspora groups South Africa, Australia, Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands and New Zealand also denounced unjust prosecution of the Delhi 18. The statement said their demand is the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all charges, including Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), against the Delhi 18 - a reference to 18 students and activists.

 NEW DELHI ,January 27:  The South Asia State of Minorities Report 2021 has blamed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, besides the media, for the hate campaigns against minorities, especially Muslims in India. The South Asia State of Minorities Report 2021 also highlighted the role of media in spreading “a barrage of sensationalised, pro-BJP and often anti-minority content on the national airwaves, marked by hyperbole and, in many instances, outright misinformation”. South Asia Collective, a joint group of South Asian human rights organizations and activists, have come up with a report on hate speeches made against minorities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal and Srilanka.

 NEW DELHI ,January 27:  The organisation renewed its demand for the release all political prisoners including Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez and Indian journalist Siddique Kappa. The National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO)welcoming the recent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) move including human rights defender, Khurram Parvez and journalist Siddique Kappan on the Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Victims List, The list is a database of persons who have been imprisoned or detained in what is referred to as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), which USCIRF defines as a country that has engaged in or tolerated “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” violations of religious freedom. India has now been recommended as a part of this category for two years in a row has shared the concern of the USCIRF.

 BENGALURU , January 27 : A group of academics, former bureaucrats, scientists, social workers, artistes, and writers penned an open letter to the Karnataka government in India, calling attention to “the deteriorating governance and frequent violence against religious minorities” in the state. the signatories, numbering 34, include historian Dr Ramachandra Guha, lawyer Flavia Agnes, human rights activist Bezawada Wilson, and artist S.G. Vasudev.

HYDERABAD, India January 26 : The Hyderabadi women expressed solidarity with the Muslim girl students of the Udipi college of southern Indian sate Karnatka and made an appeal to the college authorities to allow them to attend classes. The Muslim girls and women have vehemently denounced the administration of an Udupi college in Karnataka state for barring Muslim girl students wearing Hijab from attending classes.“We strongly condemn the policies and practices of rightwing forces where they are creating a communal and unsafe environment for Muslim minority, especially Women,” asserted a group of Muslim women at a joint Press Conference in Hyderabad city.

Srinagar, January 26  The Indian police of Uttar Pradesh (UP) state has filed a chargesheet under sedition fake charges against the three Kashmiri students, who were arrested for allegedly celebrating Pakistan cricket team’s win against India in the T20 World cup last year in October. 

 Srinagar, January 13, 2022  Tight security arrangements have been made ahead of January 26 Indian offficial celebrations later this month in Kashmir Valley in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. 

 New  York, Jan 13, 2022: The world watchdog Human Rights Watch in its Annual Report 2021 has shed light on India’s poor human rights record in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The report described events of the year 2021 and made a particular mention of an 18-month internet shutdown, unceremonial and forced burial of the veteran APHC leader, Syed Ali Gilani, custodial death of THK chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, harassment of Kashmiri journalists by the Indian authorities as few out of many India’s terrorist acts in the IIOJK territory. The watchdog HRW in its annual report said that in  February 2021, the Indian government finally lifted an 18-month internet shutdown in Kashmir imposed in August 2019 when it revoked the state’s constitutional autonomy and split it into two federally governed territories.

 Jammu,January 13, 2022:  in a shameful incident mocking tall claims of the puppet regime  towards bettering the public delivery system, a father in remote Gundow Sub Division of Doda District had travel 5 kilometres to reach nearby hospital at Gundow Sub Division, but unfortunately had to return back with his dead body, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu, January 12: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian army vehicle hit a passenger bus and injured seven persons including an aged woman in Poonch district. 
The Indian army vehicle deliberately hit a passenger vehicle and injured seven passengers including Aijaz Ahmad (14), Bashir Ahmad (70) and Begum Jan (65)  at Tota Gali in Poonch district.