South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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.

New Delhi, February 09, 2013: Indian authorities hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru, a 43-year-old Kashmiri, convicted in the 2001 Indian parliament attack case, today, at 8:00am in Tehar Jail, Delhi.

 
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.

New Delhi, January 26 : Underscoring the need to punish the Indian armed forces personnel involved in human rights violations in Kashmir, renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy has said that impunity enjoyed by the forces had made them habitual offenders.

 Srinagar, Sat, 04 January 2013 : A young journalist was thrashed by police men (cops) in Hazratbal in Srinagar city. Imran Muzaffar, a reporter with  Srinagar based daily‘Greater Kashmir,’ was roughed up by cops when he requested them to stay in queue at an Automated Teller Machine outside the Kashmir University when a woman was holding transaction.

Srinagar, December 30, 2012 :,Curfew  and strict restrictions were imposed in south town of Pulwama on the third consecutive day, today,( Sunday), after more than dozen civilians were critically injured by Indian government forces on Friday during protest demonstrations against the destroying of a residential house and atrocities committed by forces on people in Chandpora(Babgam) in Pulwama during operation. “Curfew is going on in Pulwama and it is continuing, ” a police spokesman told mediamen.

 سرینگر۔ دسمبر9/, 2012 کشمےر مےں1990سے عوامی تحرےک آزادی کی سے 2012 دسمبر تک انسانی حقوق کے حوالے سے نہ صرف وادی میں کام کررہی کئی انجمنوں نے اعداد وشمار پیش کئے ہیں بلکہ بین الاقوامی سطح پر ایمنسٹی انٹرنیشنل اور ہیومن رائٹس واچ نے بھی اس حوالے سے تحریری طور پر وقتاً فوقتاً کشمےر میں ہورہی انسانی حقوق کی پامالیوں کو اجاگر کیاہے۔اس متناز عہ علاقے میں کوئی بھی ادارہ اب تک گرفتاریوں،حراستی گمشدگیوں ،حراستی قتل اور دیگر واقعات کے حوالے سے مصدقہ طور پر اعداد وشمار پیش نہیں کرسکا ہے کیونکہ کسی بھی غیر سرکاری ادارے نے اس ضمن میں دستاویزتیار نہیں کئے ہیں۔غالباً پہلی بار انٹرنیشنل فورم

 Srinagar, December 11,2012: A Kashmiri youth taj, son of Mohammad Yousaf of Marrah, Surankote has been acquitted by a court after losing over 8 years in jail.
According to the police claim as they filed case, on June 7, 2004 Taj, son of Mohammad Yousaf of Marrah, Surankote along with five-six other militants barged into a house at Khaitan Draba and started indiscriminate firing on three SPOs including Mushtaq Ahmed, son of Nazir Hussain of Khaitan Draba. In the firing, Mushtaq Ahmed died while as other two SPOs managed to escape from the house.

Monday, 10 December 2012  Srinagar:  Kashmir on Monday held a protest over the human rights violations committed by men in uniform in Kashmir..