South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 PATNA , India,February 21: A  head scarf/ Hijab girl  was stopped from making transactions in a nationalised bank in Indian state Bihar.When the head scarf/ Hijab girl had gone to UCO bank in Begusarai area of the state to withdraw money, bank employees reportedly asked her to remove hijab which had never happened earlier. The girl recorded the incident and shared it on social media when the girl had gone to UCO bank of Mansoor Chowk branch in Begusarai to withdraw money. 

 NEW DELHI, Feb 11 : The intellectuals  has said that ban on head scrap/hijab in classrooms and campuses in south Indian state Karnataka, which is now spreading to other states, is a hate crime.Over 2000  intellectuals, who are working as lawyers, journalists, academicians, and woman-right activists through an open letter said, the ban on hijab in classrooms and campuses in south Indian state Karnataka,  is a hate crime, reported The New Indian Express. The intellectuals while expressing solidarity with the Muslim women who are protesting the ban on hijab said the restrictions on wearing head scrap/ hijab in classrooms and campuses are only the latest pretext to impose ‘apartheid’ on Muslim women.

 Hyderabad, February 10  The Students from Nizamia Unani Tibbi College and Anwarul Uloom College in Hyderabad staged a protest in solidarity with the students opposing ban on Hijab in educational institutions in southern Indian state Karnataka. The girl students holding national flag and placards, the burqa-clad protesters condemned the attempts to target girl students in the neighbouring state, staged silent protest   at the Unani medical college near historic Charminar expressed their solidarity with those in Karnataka fighting for the right to wear Hijab. 

Srinagar, February 09 :Indian police arrested over five dozen people in south and center districts of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Indian police during cordon and search operations and house raids arrested  atleast eleven youth in Bijbehara and other areas of of south Kashmir Islamabad district.  

 Srinagar, Feb 01 : Indian troops, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred twenty two (22) Kashmiris including a young boy during the last month of January in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, of those killed four youth were martyred in a fake encounter. 

 Srinagar, Feb 01 : Shopkeepers observed a shutdown amid protest against the lack of parking space for the traders and shoppers as well  in the Polo-View part of Srinagar city, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The protesting shopkeepers downed their shutters and blocked the traffic in the area.

 NEW DELHI,Feb 1,2022: More than a month after Hindutva figures had created furor in India and abroad by openly calling for genocide of Muslims at an infamous hate assembly in Haridwar. Equally abhorrent calls for violence echoed from another similar event held in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) in Uttar Pradesh state.

NEW DELHI, Feb 01:  Hours after Modi government banned Malayalam news channel MediaOne TV in Kerala Indian southern state, a single-judge bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday stayed the order of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry for two days. MediaOne is owned by Madhyamam Broadcasting Ltd, many of whose investors are members of the Kerala Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.

Srinagar, Jan 30, 2022: Indian troops  including Indian Army 55 Rashtriya Rifles and 182 Central Reserve Police Force and SOG  during  Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) martyred four youth  Zahid Manzoor Wani ( BSC  from Pulwama Government Degree college), house owner’s son Inayat Ahmed, and Kafeel Ahmad in Mir Mohalla Naira village of Pulwama district while another youth Bilal Ahmad Khan was martyred by indian army 33 Rashtriya Rifles  in a fake encounter in Chrar-i-Sharief area of Budgam district in IIOJK.

 KOLAR, KARNATAKA, India, Jan 30 : The Education Department in south Indian state Karnataka suspended a teacher on charges of letting students perform namaz (prayer) inside the school premises in Kolar district of Karnatka  south Indian sate.  S.M. Umadevi, in-charge head mistress of the Balechengappa Kannada Model Higher Primary School in Someshwarapalya, was suspended allegedly due to pressure from Hinudtva RSS-VHP,Banjrang Dal and BJP groups for permitting Muslim students to offer prayers within school premises.