South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

India must deliver on its repeated commitments to the Human Rights Council
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI Index: ASA 20/023/2012
1 June 2012
Document - India must deliver on its repeated commitments to the Human Rights Council
On 24 May 2012, India’s human rights record came under renewed international scrutiny during
its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council.1 Amnesty
International welcomes the recommendations made to India by the reviewing states, many of
which reflect concerns raised previously by the organization.2

Srinagar, May 14,2012: At least 12 policemen came to the ground in University camps in Srinagar and started beating up the players. The students of Kashmir University staged a protest against the Indian police for roughing up cricket players and conducting aerial firing in the camps, today.

Poonch May 8,2012 : A  constable of Special Police Officer forcebly molested and raped a young girl in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Constable Mohammad Tahir raped the13-year-girl who is reported was his step-daughter at his residential quarters in District Police Lines in Poonch when his wife had gone to Rajouri district for some work on Sunday night, a police officer told to media . The girl narrated the entire happening to her mother, who returned in the morning and a complaint was lodged against the constable in Poonch, he said.

Srinagar, April 21,2012: body of 55-year-old person was recovered in suspicious circumstances in Islamabad district. Bijbehara police recovered a dead body a laborer by profession Mohammad Ashfaq Gorsi, (55), son of Mehraj-u-Din resident of Chambal Banihal at Baba Mohalla in Bijbehara, said a police spokesman.

Srinagar, March 6, 2012: In Srinagar, the authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have admitted that more than 400 cases of human rights abuses against Indian troops and other paramilitary forces personnel were registered in different police station in Jammu and Kashmir.

444 cases were registered against the Indian paramilitary forces and police in Jammu and Kashmir during the last three years, puppet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah informed the so-called Assembly on Monday March 5.

New Delhi, March 05, 2011: In New Delhi, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights in a press release has expressed outrage at the claim advanced by the Indian Army that no civil administration could register an FIR against army personnel for their actions without the sanction of the Indian government.

The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR in its press release voiced its deep concern at the policy of drift that had taken over and apathy of the authorities when it comes to a crackdown on acts of brutal crime committed by Indian army and police in Kashmir. 

Sopore, February 19, 2012: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a 22-year-old mechanic in Sopore town on Sunday evening.  The unidentified gunmen knocked at the door of the house of Umar Rasool Kaboo, son of Ghulam Rasool Kaboo a resident of Arampora locality in Sopore town and asked him to come out at Arampora in Sopore at around 7.30 pm.

New Delhi, January 29, 2012: Custodial killings, police abuse including torture, and failure to implement policies aimed at protecting vulnerable communities marred India's record in 2011, according to the Human Rights Watch World Report.
The global report released on Monday pointed out that immunity for abuses committed by Indian armed forces also continued, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian northeast states, and areas.

Srinagar, January 28, 2012: Senior police officers admitted that 421 unmarked graves existed in Baramulla district.

The 421 unmarked graves have been found in Barfamulla district. The police officails in Baramulla district who had completed the counting of unmarked graves and has found 421 such graves in the district said that the counting in Kupwara and Bandipore districts is yet to be completed and the process is gong on, told media men.

Srinagar, January 25, 2012: Unknown gunmen killed a businessman on Tuesday in Pulwama. The 48-year-old businessman Aijaz Ahmad Shah son of Abdul Gani Shah, of Shubdani Newa of Hokri Pulwama was shot in his residence and was rushed to a near by hospital on Tuesday. However, the doctors of the hospital declared that he was brought dead.