South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

February 28, 2022:  Activist Teesta Setalvad with Zakia Jafri whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former MP and Congress leader, who was hacked and burnt alive during the 2002 pogrom. 
Teesta Setalvad
I remember the date. I remember the smell. I remember the sound as my sandals gingerly navigated through shards of glass. I remember the smell of burnt and kerosene-soaked rubber tyres. It was, I will never forget, March 4, 2002.
In what remained of Gulbarg society, charred remains of Kasimbhai Mansuri, young wannabe lawyer Mohammad Sandhi, their family members and other victims were still there. Ahsan Jafri saab’s remains too were collected from the burning embers in front of his home on the fourth day after rioting began.
 

 Raipur, February 28, 2022 : Two women were killed by Indian forces in disturbed state Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district in India, a senior official said. The two women were killed on Sunday morning by Indian forces near Jabeli village under Naimed police station area when a joint team of different security forces including District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was out on an operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P told PTI. The police described them the members of rebellion demanding justice and Azadi from Indian hegemony.

 Sopore, February 27, 2022  : The Indian forces launched a cordon and search operation in north Kashmir’s Sopore town in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  Reports said a joint team of  Indian Army-s 22 Rashtriya Rifles  and Central Reserve Police Force sealed Fruit Mandi of the town and conducted searches in the area.

 New Delhi, February 27, 20221: Indian MP of Rashtriya Janata Dal ,Manoj Kumar Jha has said there is war like situation in India against the minorities as the government is backing the hate-peddlers.  Rashtriya Janata Dal MP ,Manoj Kumar Jha was speaking at the release of Document on ‘Genocide’  at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Saturday. Campus Front of India has released ‘Genocide’ a Document that highlights cases in a line with reference to the genocidal stages proposed by the various scholars. This document contextualises the Indian situation based on Gregory H Stanton’s ‘ten stages of genocide.

 WASHINGTON, DC ,February 26, 2022: Over 50 renowned intellectuals, thinkers, scholars and activists are converging at a virtual three-day Summit – called India On The Brink: Preventing Genocide. The summit, with sessions on February 26 through February 28, 2022 has been organized by over 20 global civil rights organizations. The goal of the summit is to draw attention to the looming genocide of Muslims in India and the international community’s moral obligation to take urgent steps in preventing it.  Adama Dieng, former UN under-secretary general and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General on Genocide; Anurima Bhargava, Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); Gregory Stanton, President, Genocide Watch; Janet Rice, Australian Senator; Jason Stanley, Professor, Yale University; Nicole Widdersheim, US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Prem Shankar Jha, veteran Indian journalist; Angana P. Chatterji, scholar, UC Berkeley; and Aakar Patel, former head of Amnesty International India, are among those who will address the summit. 

Srinagar, Feb 25: Today is the 30th Jummah Mubarak and the last ten days of the holy month of Mehraj-Ul-Alam, the Ascension of the Prophet (SAW) are going on, still the Hindutva BJP-RSS regime IIOJK and its authorities while continuing with their dictatorial attitude did not allow the Muslims of Kashmir to perform important duties like Friday prayers at the largest place of worship in Indian illegally Jammu & Kashmir – the historic central Jama Masjid in Srinagar.

Srinagar, Feb 25: Indian troops  during cordon and search operation  martyred three Kashmiris in Shopian district. The youth were martyred by Indian army and Central Reserve Police Personnle during cordon and search operation in Amshipora area of the district on Friday morning. 

 Bengaluru, February 25, 2022: In India, the Mount Carmel PU College asks the 17-year-old girl to remove her turban in accordance with the February 10 High Court's interim order. Amid crisis related to wearing of head scarp/ hijab in classrooms, an Amritdhari (baptised) Sikh girl was asked to remove her turban in the reputed Mount Carmel PU College here in accordance with the February 10 High Court's interim order. Some parents of the college also complained of being targeted after their daughters were asked to remove the head scarp/ hijab.

 Mangaluru,Karnatka February 25, 2022: In India, the trouble erupted when some girl students wearing head scarp/ hijab were sent out of the institute premises by the college principal at the MGM college in Udupi. The postgraduate students who sought entry into the college wearing  head scarp/ hijab complained that they were not allowed to attend the classes or enter the college premises, which is in violation of the high court order. The students said they could not appear for their examinations earlier due to the row over the head scarp/ hijab issue.

 Srinagar, February 24 : Indian troops  arrested four  youth  in Baramulla and Shopian districts in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir,.