Human rights news
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.
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.
India must deliver on its repeated commitments to the Human Rights Council:AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
India must deliver on its repeated commitments to the Human Rights Council
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI Index: ASA 20/023/2012
1 June 2012
Document - India must deliver on its repeated commitments to the Human Rights Council
On 24 May 2012, India’s human rights record came under renewed international scrutiny during
its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council.1 Amnesty
International welcomes the recommendations made to India by the reviewing states, many of
which reflect concerns raised previously by the organization.2
Indian police harassing Kashmiri students without any reason in Indian state MP
Srinagar, January 16, 2011: A number of Kashmiri students studying in Indian state Madhya Pradesh (MP) have said that they were being harassed by Indian police and asked to get credentials verified by the Jammu and Kashmir police. The students studying in some colleges and universities of in Indian state MP have reported to their parents that the local Indian cops are harassing them without any provocation. The students have said that they are either called or taken to police station and being questioned.
