South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

New York, September 04, 2020: The New York-based international rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Indian authorities to prohibit its armed forces in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir from using pellet guns to disperse protesters.  The Human Rights Watch in a statement issued in New York said that Indian police and paramilitary forces used pellet firing shotguns as well as teargas shells at a Muharram procession in Srinagar on August 29, 2020, injuring dozens of people.

 New York, August 16, 2020: The Human Rights Watch has said that the Indian authorities should immediately order an independent, impartial investigation into the extrajudicial killing of three labourers by Indian forces in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, last month.

Srinagar, August 16, 2020 ;The authorities in illegally Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir have halted the investigation in tens of thousands of cases alleging human rights violation against the authorities and Indian  troops, paramilitary and police forces before the region was converted into a Union Territory (UT) last year August by Modi BJP government.
 

Bengaluru, August 13,2020:The Amnesty International has sought independent and transparent investigation into extrajudicial killing of three labourers by Indian Army in Shopian area of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The labourers identified as Abrar Gujjar, Imtiyaz Gujjar and Abrar Khan from Rajouri district were killed by Indian Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles during a cordon and search operation at Keller Amshipora in Shopian district on July 18, 2020. Indian troops during the operation claimed that the killed persons were “militants”. The families of the labourers said that they had left their homes on 16th July to find work in Kashmir Valley.
 

Srinagar, August 10 , 2020: The three youth, martyred by Indian troops in a fake encounter in Shopian, have been identified as the Kashmiri labourers of Rajouri district in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. 
The youth identified as Abrar Gujar, Imtiyaz Gujar and Abrar Khan were killed by Indian Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles during a cordon and search operation at Keller Amshipora in Shopian district on July 18, 2020. Two of the victims were working locally as masons, said a student from a nearby village and had worked in the locality for many years. The Indian troops during the operation claimed they were “militants”.

 Srinagar, August 09, 2020: One year has passed since the Modis BJP-RSS government repealed Kashmir’s special status and divided it into two union territories, but it has been 12 months without any business and the private sector and tourism are in a shambles due to continued siege, lockdown and internet shutdown after 5 August 2019 has inflicted heavy losses on the local businesses community in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Ever since Narendra Modi-led fascist government abrogated the special status of Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on 5th August 2019, the Kashmir Valley has been deprived of high-speed internet which is the world’s longest internet shutdown.

 Srinagar, August 08 , 2020:Renowned Kashmiri journalist, Yousuf Jameel, in an article wrote that while people from all walks of life have been facing severe difficulties after the repeal of Kashmir’s special status by Narendra Modi government on August 5, last year, the journalists are also facing hurdles in performing their professional duties. He maintained that several journalists, who opposed the Indian government's measures, were charged with sedition and some are still imprisoned.  The people from all walks of life in Indian illegally occupied Kashmir have been facing severe difficulties after the Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government of Bharatiya Janata Party illegally repealed Kashmir’s special status on August 5, last year and imposed a military siege, the journalists are also facing hurdles in performing their professional duties.

Srinagar, August 4 , 2020 : The Indian authorities booked a Kashmiri journalist  under a black law and was shifted to Srinagar Central Jail, today. The editor of Kashmiriyat, the news portal Qazi Shibli who was was summoned by Indian police few days ago from his residence in Islamabad district and detained him in an interrogation center has been booked under 107 Security for keeping the peace in other cases, a law that allows pre-emptive detention of a person based on suspicion.