South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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. 

August 20, 2021  By Muslim Mirror Staff India  New Delhi: Over 100 academics, activists, and writers have issued a statement demanding immediate and unconditional release of people arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. They condemned the prolonged incarceration of the  activists. 

 Guwahati, August 21 , 2021: In Indian, Assam Police arrested fourteen Muslims were arrested from across Assam for alleged social media posts supporting the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, police said on Saturday.   Police officials said the they booked them under different sections of the black laws Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, IT Act and the CrPC. "A total of 14 people have been arrested so far in 11 districts of Assam, which includes one MBBS student of Hailakandi, studying in Tezpur Medical college, and two others," a senior police official added. 

August 21, 2021 Bengaluru, August 21, 2021: In India, a Dalit family was attacked by upper caste men for demanding prasad at a temple in Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru south state Karnatka. Munianjinappa and his wife Aruna, an Asha worker, have two sons. On August 14, a special puja was organised at the Ramanathapura Anjaneya temple. When their younger son went to collect prasad at the temple, he was allegedly manhandled by Kishore, a youth belonging to an upper caste. 

 Mary Lawlor speaks to The Wire about the situation of human rights defenders in the country, the use of repressive laws by the government and more. Several HRDs, academics and journalists have ended up in prisons for holding the state accountable. The state has used repressive laws like the UAPA to ensure prolonged incarceration and deny them their right to bail. And most of these arrests have continued through the pandemic.Sukanya ShanthaOn May 1, 2020, Mary Lawlor, a Dublin-based human rights expert with over four decades of experience engaging in human rights work, took up the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) at the United Nations. Along with her work globally, Lawlor has been closely following the deteriorating human rights conditions in India and feels the country has repeatedly failed to protect the rights and interests of HRDs in the country. 
 

Srinagar, August 20, 2021 :A Kashmiri youth serving a private company was thrashed by a gang of six persons in Gurgoan area in Indian state Haryana.The Kashmiri youth identified as Tariq Bhat, a resident of Handwara works as Financial Advisor in a financial technology company Policybazaar, was intercepted by a group of six youth in Gurgoan citys  Sector 44 in Haryana  on Thursday evening.
Tariq Bhat, 24, left his office in sector 44 of Gurgaon and was walking towards his rented accommodation – some two kilometres away from his office when a group of unidentified men grabbed his neck, another blindfolded him and the rest began beating him mercilessly.