South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

NEW DELHI ,September  20 : In India, the  Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (Mahmood Madani group) has demanded that policemen involved in the custodial death of 32-year-old Qasim Abdullah Hayat in Gujarat’s Godhra be booked. Qasim was arrested on  last week for allegedly transporting cow meat. The following day, he was found dead before he could be produced before a magistrate. Citing the video footages, the police claimed that he had committed suicide while family members said he was tortured by police leading to his death. A delegation of Jamiat’s Gujarat unit met with Godhra Superintendent Police Leena Patil  demanded action against the erring police officers.

 September 15, 2021 Shamli, India UP: The news of lynchings, fake encounters, malicious arrests, and prosecution of Muslims are making headlines daily but the killing of a 20-year-old Muslim youth in  Banat town of Shamli district is alarming when the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are only a few months away.  
Reportedly, Hindu goons belonging to the right-wing outfit terror Bajrang Dal of Sangparivar have been deployed to attack innocent Muslims in the region which had become communally sensitive after communal riots in 2013. The outfit has indoctrinated youths with hate and they are used to unleash a reign of terror among Muslims, Dalits, and other vulnerable communities.The killing of Sameer seems to be a result of the conspiracy of terrorizing Muslims as a community. It has been widely reported in the area that there was no personal reason behind the heinous attack on Sameer. It is also a fact that there are no  enmity  in the neighborhood as Muslim and Hindu families coexist harmoniously and peacefully for generations. The town also has a record of amicable relations between the communities. While the Muslim population in the town is only 1/3rd, several people from minority community have held the chairmanship of the town area more than once. All India Lawyers Council (AILC) general secretary Adv Sharfuddin Ahmad, VP Adv R Sevvilam Parithi with Sameer family

India, MYSURU, September 16, 2021:In India, theBJP and Pro-Hindutva group Hindu Jagarana Vedike on Thursday assaulted and manhandled a journalist of an Urdu daily at a protest called by Hindu Jagaran Vedike in Karnatka state .  The protest at Mysore Palace North Gate protest was called against the demolition of temples, especially the Adishakti Mahadevamma temple at Huchgani village in Nanjangud taluk recently.

India, MYSURU, September 16, 2021:In India, theBJP and Pro-Hindutva group Hindu Jagarana Vedike on Thursday assaulted and manhandled a journalist of an Urdu daily at a protest called by Hindu Jagaran Vedike in Karnatka state .  The protest at Mysore Palace North Gate protest was called against the demolition of temples, especially the Adishakti Mahadevamma temple at Huchgani village in Nanjangud taluk recently.

NEW DELHI September 16, 202 : In India, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths on Thursday conducted a raid on the office and home of  a prominent human rights activist and former IAS officer,Harsh Mander in New Delhi. The raid, according to The Quint, came hours after Mander and his wife left for Germany for a nine-month fellowship offered by Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. 

Srinagar, 16 September : The Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has recorded a 15% increase in cognisable

 New Delhi, September 16, 2021: : As many as 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year. 

 Madhya Pardesh, August 23, 2021: A video is being widely circulated on social media showing Tasleem, a bangle seller in Indian state Madhya Pradesh’s Govidnagar, being thrashed by Hindutva men for entering the Hindu neighbourhood.