South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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, February 24. 2013 : The Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)  continues to occupy the buildings at premier health institutions of the Kashmir Valley despite the claims of the administration that Indian forces have vacated all the important buildings in Kashmir. The erstwhile Animal House of the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences, with multi-storey building and over 20 Kanal of land, still continues to be under the occupation of CRPF personnel.

New Delhi, February 09, 2013: Indian authorities hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru, a 43-year-old Kashmiri, convicted in the 2001 Indian parliament attack case, today, at 8:00am in Tehar Jail, Delhi.

 
Thursday, February 07,2013:Child victims of sexual abuse in India are often mistreated and humiliated by police, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The report says sexual abuse is "disturbingly common" in Indian homes, schools and care homes, and government systems to deal with the issue of abuse are inadequate.
Reports say more than 7,200 children, including infants, are raped every year in India. Child rights activists believe many more cases go unreported.

New Delhi, January 26 : Underscoring the need to punish the Indian armed forces personnel involved in human rights violations in Kashmir, renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy has said that impunity enjoyed by the forces had made them habitual offenders.

 Srinagar, Sat, 04 January 2013 : A young journalist was thrashed by police men (cops) in Hazratbal in Srinagar city. Imran Muzaffar, a reporter with  Srinagar based daily‘Greater Kashmir,’ was roughed up by cops when he requested them to stay in queue at an Automated Teller Machine outside the Kashmir University when a woman was holding transaction.