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New-York, December 15, 2022 : The New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists has said that four journalists from IIOJK along with three Indian journalists have been jailed, which continues to remain at a record high for the second consecutive year since CPJ began its prison census in 1992. According to CPJ’s 2022 prison census, India continues to draw criticism over its treatment of the media, in particular its use of draconian Public Safety Act to keep Kashmiri journalists Aasif Sultan, Fahad Shah and Sajad Gul behind bars after they were granted court-ordered bail in separate cases. human rights news

 New Delhi, December 15: The Washington Post has said that the evidence against a Jharkhand-based Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, who died in police custody, was planted by the Indian police. A new digital forensics report has found that multiple incriminating documents were planted on the laptop of activist Stan Swamy, who was arrested for  fake militialinks in 2020  by Indian agencies and who died in custody a year later 2021.

 FRISCO, TEXAS .December 14: Leaders from the Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Dalit communities, as well as activists, held a rally to protest  against Hindutva hate and anti-Christian and Muslim persecution in India.

Washington, D.C, December 14 : A top US official has slammed the Biden administration for failing to formally designate India as one of the world’s worst religious freedom offenders over the country’s appalling record of violations against religious minorities.

Jaipur, December 5 : After Manipal Institute of Technology in Indian state Karnataka, a Muslim student was now  hounded with Islamophobic slurs during a history class in another Indian state of Rajasthan.The Muslim victim named Hasina Bano is a first-year student of History at MBR college in Balotra town of Barmer district of the state.

 New Delhi, December 5 : A Delhi court has granted bail to two Muslim men arrested by the Delhi Police on fake case under black law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in a case registered in connection with the ban on the famous political party of Muslims in India named Popular Front of India (PFI).

NEW DELHI ,December 5: India has been ranked eighth among countries that are at the highest risk of mass killing in 2022-23, a United States-based study has said.India has experienced a drop in rank from the second position at the beginning of the year, the report said.
 

 New Delhi, December 5  Hundreds of detonators hold a sit-in  at Jantar Mantar in Indian capital city New Delhi, has demanded that the government should come out with accurate figures of deaths and health hazards due to the disaster in Bhopal city. Hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster of 3 December 1984 on the 38th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy inwhich over 15000 people died, remembered the victims at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

 November 28, 2022: A Muslim youth was physically assaulted by a group of Hindutva extremist goons after he was seen traveling with a Hindu girl in a bus in Indian state

Srinagar, November 18 : An unidentified man was found hanging with a tree in Srinagar district in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir An unknown man, believed to be of Gujjar community, was found hanging with a tree in Al-Maroof Colony of the district. A police officer confirmed the incident and said some locals of the area spotted the body of the man and accordingly informed the police.