South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

By Martin Banks - 6th May 2013:  UK MEP Sajjad Karim has called for an investigation following the discovery of 'mass graves' in Kashmir.The centre right deputy has also condemned EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton for her "muted" response to demands that those responsible be brought to justice. His comments come with the launch of a petition to the EU designed to highlight the current situation in Kashmir, a mountainous region which has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years.

Srinagar May 03, 2013: The Jammu & Kashmir Young Journalists Association (JKYJA) has held an important meeting at its office situated at Lal Chowk Srinagar to celebrate the 20 th annual World Press Freedom Day Journalists  and remembered those fearless journalists  who have died for their cause.

Srinagar, April 01, 2013:  In Srinagar, Doctors has said that the use of non-lethal weapons by Indian forces and police men had increased heart and other health problems in Kashmir.
Stories are increasingly common in Kashmir where government forces use an array of ‘non-lethal’ weapons against protesters, said a doctor. Scores if not hundreds of people have been injured by weapons including marbles fired from slingshots, pellet guns and the so-called pepper grenades which are packed with chemicals and a capsaicinoid concentrate.

Srinagar, Mar 27, 2013: A 16 year old boy was injured in a littered explosive blast in Baramulla district. 16-year-old Mohammad Maqsood Mir son of  Mohammad Afzal Mir  was injured after some explosive went off when he was clearing the field at Danisayyidan in Uri area of the district, a senior police officer in Baramulla told media men. He said Masood received injuries in the leg and was hospitalized.

Srinagar, Thu, 28 March 2013 : In Srinagar, the Civil society on Wednesday debated the draft of the  ‘Police Bill 2013’ and most of them agreed that the bill if passed was aimed at giving  arbitrary power to the police for legalising authoritie’s suppression on the people of Kashmir.
 A seminar, ‘Martyr Jalil Andrabi, A victim of human rights violation’ and ‘Police Bill 2013, was held at the lower Court complex in which eminent lawyers, civil society members, writers and leader spoke on these topics.

Srinagar, Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 : Police Thursday confirmed another death by Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Srinagar. The fast moving  CRPF vehicle  hit and critically injured Ghulam Ahmad Chopan  alias Ama Chopan (70) of Fresdab, Charar-e-Sharief, Budgam on Wednesday evening near Solina in Srinagar. He later succumbed to his injuriesin Srinagar hospital on Thursday March 14, police official said. Police has registered a case in this regard. Ghulam Ahmad Chopan  hailed from Futlipora Chrar-e-Shareef and worked in Srinagar.

 
Friday March 8. 2013 :  A Kashmiri girl was injured after  Indian government forces assaulted her in northern Kashmir in Kunzar in Tangmarg, her family told media men. They said Indian armed forces barged into houses in Pandithpor and Kunzar villages in  Tangmarg in Baramulla district. The forces hit a postgraduate student Massarat Daughter of Ghulam Nabi Sheikh with a cane and broke her tow teeth, She was rushed to PHC Kunzar and admitted in hospital.
 

Srinagar, Mar 7, 2013 : Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel using the deadly pepper gas on Kashmiri protestors in Kashmir, the people of Kashmir has said that use of pepper gas is an inhuman act. 
Human Rights Commission  in Kashmir while banning of use of pepper gas shelling  on  protestors, aleast two old age persons died and more than 30 persons including minors were shifted to Hospital after police and CRPF personals fired pepper gas in Srinagar city and other  districts of the valley .

Srinagar, March 7, 2013: Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel used brute force and fired teargas and peppers shells to disperse protesters in Hyderpora, Batmaloo and Zakoora in Srinagar, Khanpora, Cement Bridge and Palhalan in Baramulla, Narbal crossing in Budgam, Papchan in Bandipora and Cherkoot-Lolab in Kupwara district, a police spokesman said.
At least a dozen people were injured.