South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Assam, September 24, 2021  : In India, a 12-year-old Shakh Farid, a Class 7 student, was killed in Indian Assam police firing after he had left home on Thursday afternoon to go the post-office to get his Aadhaar card. He returned home dead on a horse cart. human rights newsAround late afternoon, Farid’s parents heard that their son was killed. He was identified with the Aadhaar card which was in his pocket.

 London, September 25, 2021 : The Members of British Parliament have called on their government to use its weight to help resolve the decades old Kashmir dispute, and that the entry of the Indian High Commissioner in the parliament be barred. 

New York, September 25, 2021 : At the United Nations, Pakistan has firmly rejected India’s claim that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part.Reacting to the Indian claim, Pakistani delegate Saima Saleem said that occupied Kashmir was not a “so-called integral part of India nor is it India’s internal matter”.“India remains in occupation of an internationally recognised disputed territory whose final disposition needs to be decided in accordance with the democratic principle of a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices, as provided for under numerous resolutions of the Security Council,” she said.

WASHINGTON, D.C, September 23 (KMS):  The Human rights groups and interfaith leaders planned a protest to oppose the U.S. visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Kashmir Media Service, the rally will be held on Thursday in Lafayette Park near the White House. The organizers said they want to highlight the “state-sanctioned discrimination, intimidation, persecution, physical attacks and killings of religious minorities by Hindu right-wing extremists in India.

MIRZAPUR, UP,September 23 :  The skeletons of three minor girls, who had been reported missing since the past one month, have been found in a forest in Indian state Utter Pardesh.The girls had left their home with their mother in Belahi village of the Halia area in Mirzapur district of the month a month ago and were missing since then. The mother is now absconding after the recovery of skeletons that have been sent for autopsy and forensic examination.

NEW DELHI , September 23 : The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in its annual report, has termed the arrest of Safoora Zargarand Christian James Michel   by Indian authorities as arbitrary. The report in respect to Safoora Zargar  stated, “Several human rights defenders were detained under vague and overly broad national security and anti-terrorism provisions, giving the authorities wide discretion to criminalise their peaceful activities.” 

Srinagar, Sept 22, 2021:  A youth was injured in Indian troops firing at Azad Gunj area of  Baramulla district of IIOJK on Wednesday.Reports said that youth identified as Mohsin Solih of Iqbal Colony Baramulla was injured in firing  by Indian forces. A top police official of the district told mediamen that a youth was injured in a firing incident by an Indian army party at Azad Gunj. The injured youth has been identified as Mohsin Solih, reported said.Authorities at GMC Baramulla said the youth has suffered an injury in his leg. He is stable, they said.

Jammu, September 22 , 2021: Normal economical activities remained affected in Jammu, due to traders strike call against the proposed opening of 100 Reliance retail stores in Jammu in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir,  today.A complete shutdown is being observed in Jammu call for which was given by Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was supported by twenty-five trade and industry lobbies besides several political parties.Wearing black badges to protest ‘anti-traders’ policies, the business community assembled at various markets and Chamber house and raised slogans like ‘Jammu Ekta Zindabad’.
 

New Delhi, September 22 , 2021 : A woman from Kyrgyzstan and her one-year-old son were found murdered at a house in  Indian capital New Delhi. The 28-old Kyrgyzstan woman, Myskal Zhumabaeva, and her son Manas were found lying dead on the bed with stab injuries on chest and other body parts in southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji area. A case of murder has been registered in connection with the incident, Indian police claimed, adding that further investigation is underway to nab the culprit and ascertain the motive behind the killing.

September 21, 2021: In India, a student of Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in West Bengal has alleged that an upper-caste professor refused to interact with him and called him ”impure”. The police have filed an FIR against the professor on the basis of a complaint submitted by the student who is identified as Somnath Sow.Sow told PTI news agency that he came across professor Sumit Basu at a tea stall in Syambati area of Santiniketan. It was at that time, Basu “called me a Dalit and said he did not want to talk to me”, Sow said.