South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, Mar 27, 2013: A 16 year old boy was injured in a littered explosive blast in Baramulla district. 16-year-old Mohammad Maqsood Mir son of  Mohammad Afzal Mir  was injured after some explosive went off when he was clearing the field at Danisayyidan in Uri area of the district, a senior police officer in Baramulla told media men. He said Masood received injuries in the leg and was hospitalized.

Srinagar, Thu, 28 March 2013 : In Srinagar, the Civil society on Wednesday debated the draft of the  ‘Police Bill 2013’ and most of them agreed that the bill if passed was aimed at giving  arbitrary power to the police for legalising authoritie’s suppression on the people of Kashmir.
 A seminar, ‘Martyr Jalil Andrabi, A victim of human rights violation’ and ‘Police Bill 2013, was held at the lower Court complex in which eminent lawyers, civil society members, writers and leader spoke on these topics.

Srinagar, Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 : Police Thursday confirmed another death by Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Srinagar. The fast moving  CRPF vehicle  hit and critically injured Ghulam Ahmad Chopan  alias Ama Chopan (70) of Fresdab, Charar-e-Sharief, Budgam on Wednesday evening near Solina in Srinagar. He later succumbed to his injuriesin Srinagar hospital on Thursday March 14, police official said. Police has registered a case in this regard. Ghulam Ahmad Chopan  hailed from Futlipora Chrar-e-Shareef and worked in Srinagar.

 
Friday March 8. 2013 :  A Kashmiri girl was injured after  Indian government forces assaulted her in northern Kashmir in Kunzar in Tangmarg, her family told media men. They said Indian armed forces barged into houses in Pandithpor and Kunzar villages in  Tangmarg in Baramulla district. The forces hit a postgraduate student Massarat Daughter of Ghulam Nabi Sheikh with a cane and broke her tow teeth, She was rushed to PHC Kunzar and admitted in hospital.
 

Srinagar, Mar 7, 2013 : Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel using the deadly pepper gas on Kashmiri protestors in Kashmir, the people of Kashmir has said that use of pepper gas is an inhuman act. 
Human Rights Commission  in Kashmir while banning of use of pepper gas shelling  on  protestors, aleast two old age persons died and more than 30 persons including minors were shifted to Hospital after police and CRPF personals fired pepper gas in Srinagar city and other  districts of the valley .

Srinagar, March 7, 2013: Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel used brute force and fired teargas and peppers shells to disperse protesters in Hyderpora, Batmaloo and Zakoora in Srinagar, Khanpora, Cement Bridge and Palhalan in Baramulla, Narbal crossing in Budgam, Papchan in Bandipora and Cherkoot-Lolab in Kupwara district, a police spokesman said.
At least a dozen people were injured.

Srinagar, February 24. 2013 : The Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)  continues to occupy the buildings at premier health institutions of the Kashmir Valley despite the claims of the administration that Indian forces have vacated all the important buildings in Kashmir. The erstwhile Animal House of the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences, with multi-storey building and over 20 Kanal of land, still continues to be under the occupation of CRPF personnel.

 
Thursday, February 07,2013:Child victims of sexual abuse in India are often mistreated and humiliated by police, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The report says sexual abuse is "disturbingly common" in Indian homes, schools and care homes, and government systems to deal with the issue of abuse are inadequate.
Reports say more than 7,200 children, including infants, are raped every year in India. Child rights activists believe many more cases go unreported.

 Srinagar, Jan 2013: ‘Unmarked graves’ in Kashmir has now became a term and this term no more jolts the valley people as every day people came to know through newspapers about these unmarked graves in which number of innocent Kashmiris have been buried after being brutally killed and very unfortunate aspect of this shocking story is that still no one knows who has killed these people buried in unmarked graves.