South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 New Delhi, November 9, 2021: The Editors Guild of India and opposition parties in Tripura slammed the state police for booking journalists and activists under the black law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for their social media posts on communal violence that took place in Tripura in October.Reports said that police have opened an investigation against 102 social media accounts including 68 Twitter handles, 32 Facebook pages and two YouTube channels of

 MAINPURI,(India)November 8, 2021: Two minor Dalit sisters were raped, allegedly by two men belonging to a neighbouring village in Mainpuri district in UP in India. One of the accused was arrested on Saturday after the incident took place late on Friday night.
 

Balaghat (India)November 08, 2021  :A 50-year-old man  allegedly killed his wife in a fit of rage when she told him to wait for a towel he had asked for after taking bath in Madhya Pradesh state in India, police said on Monday.   The incident took place on Saturday evening in Hirapur village under Kirnapur police station limits of Balaghat district, they said.

 Jammu, Nov 7, 2021 : Eight persons include  three persons died   under mysterious circumstances in Samba and Kathua districts in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Three persons identified as Nikhilesh Kumar, 32, ,Ramesh Lal, 62,  and Ganesh Dutt, 50, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in different places of the Samb district.

By Madiha Shakil Khan  November 4, 2021 :On the afternoon of July 10, the Bosnian Serb army soldiers began storming Srebrenica, a city of refuge created by the United Nations, where more than 40,000 people sought shelter from war. A United Nations officer in the town hunched over his computer and tapped out a desperate plea to his leaders in Geneva; about 23,000 Muslim women and children were deported in the next 30 hours, and 8,372 innocent Bosnian Muslim men and boys were mercilessly murdered. The ‘Srebrenica massacre’ is widely acknowledged by genocide scholars as the biggest war crime perpetrated on European soil Since World War II, for which Ratko Mladic, the “Butcher of Bosnia”, “the epitome of evil”, was convicted by international war crimes tribunal for crimes that were “amongst the most heinous known to humankind”.However, the Jammu Kashmir, South Asia’s Himalaya region, which is disputed between two nuclear neighbours-India & Pakistan, witnessed the worst human carnage much before the ‘Srebrenica massacre.

 Waquar Hasan | Clarion IndiaNovember 2, 20210NEW DELHI – A report on the extra-judicial killings happened in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years back has blamed the India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other oversight bodies for condoning “the unconstitutional procedures followed by the police during these investigations” into the encounter killings. 

 NEW DELHI,November 3, 2021:The Chairperson of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has expressed concern over recent anti-Muslim violence  in  Tripura state in India. The USCIRF has urged the Indian government to stop violence against religious communities. Reacting to a BBC report on the violence, Nadine Maenza, the chairperson of the commission, said  that they are concerned about ongoing violence in Tripura against Muslims, which some regard as retaliation for attacks against #Hindus in #Bangladesh last month  following allegations of desecration of the Holy Quran on October 13.. The Indian government must stop violence against religious communities.

 NEW DELHI ,November 2, 2021:  In India, a Delhi court  reserved its order on the bail application of JNU scholar and activist Sharjeel Imam, in connection with a 2019 fake case related to his alleged  speeches during the protests against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) . Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat  on Tuesday  reserved the order after hearing both sides in the case. The court is likely to pronounce the order on the bail plea on November 15.

Srinagar,November 2, 2021:An unidentified elderly male body was recovered in Kupwara district while law student was arrested by Indian police in Srinagar in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The elderly male body was recovered in Kralpora area of the Kupwara district on Monday evening. A police official confirming the recovery of the body told media men that the identity of the dead person is being ascertained.

Aligarh, November 02, 2021 :  A Muslim hawker Amir was forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ after being beaten up and looted by Hidutva terrorist group  Bajrang Dal in Indian state Utter pardesh. In a video that surfaced on social media, Amir said that when he was selling clothes in the area, two men came and asked him whether you are a Mulla (derogatory terms used for Muslims). Then, they asked him to say ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and he said it to their intimidation in Aligarh on Sunday evening.