South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

An Indian Journalist and human rights activist Prashant Rahi, who was arrested on 1 September 2013 on suspicion of having links with a banned organization, stated he was tortured while in police custody. He is in pre-trial detention in NagpurCentral Jail, Maharashtra state, India, awaiting trial.

Srinagar,Saturday, 22 March 2014: Ten parents including seven women have died for the last five years while waiting for sons disappeared in custody during the past two decades of military violence in Kashmir.
Ten parents including seven women breathed their last in past five years while protesting for the whereabouts of their beloved ones. 

Srinagar,Saturday, 22 March 2014: Ten parents including seven women have died for the last five years while waiting for sons disappeared in custody during the past two decades of military violence in Kashmir.
Ten parents including seven women breathed their last in past five years while protesting for the whereabouts of their beloved ones. 

Srinagar, March 21: Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) has urged the foreign governments and international institutions to blacklist the Indian army personnel and police involved in human rights violations in Kashmir.

Srinagar, March 21, 2014: While observing the 14th anniversary of Chattisingpora massacre today along with hundreds of men, women and children of the village,  Narender Kour, a resident who lost her husband Gurbaksh Singh in the massacre refreshed the fateful night.

Srinagar, 21 March 2014: On a day Pakistan and India are to lock horns in the ongoing T20 World Cup being played in Bangladesh, at least twelve Kashmir students  injured after they were  attacked by local students  before Friday congregational prayers in  Chittorgarh University in Rajasthan in India. 

Srinagar, Feb 4 : Tabassum Guru, wife of  martyred Muhammad Afzal Guru of Doadgah Sopore  who was hanged to death on February 9 2013 in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, has said that she doesn’t expect justice from New Delhi or its regime in Kashmir but would continue its voice to demand the return of her husband’s body till her death.
Tabassum Guru while talking to media men in Srinagar said, ” my husband is a Shaheed (martyr) and everybody knows this. It GOI will return the body, I wish to be buried besides his grave”.

Srinagar, Feb 4 : A week ahead of the first anniversary of the execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru, many civil society members from across the globe have expressed support to campaign for release of Kashmiri political prisoners held in various Indian jails and for the return of mortal remains of martyred prominent Kashmiri liberation leader, Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Guru.

Srinagar, January 31: Remembering the veteran Journalist Parvaz Mohammad Sultan, on his 11th martyrdom anniversary today, Islamabad (Anantnag )Working Journalist Association today paid glowing tributes to him and expressed sympathy and solidarity with the  victim family.

Srinagar, January 23, 2014:The police  personnel arrested 1,325 persons, including 95 minors, from across Kashmir valley, after hanging of Kashmiri Mohammad Afzal Guru in Indias Tihar Jail, on February 9  which had triggered mass agitation in Kashmir.
The 95 minors arrested from the Kashmir valley included 29 from Srinagar, 25 from north Kashmir’s Baramulla and 16 from another north Kashmir district of Bandipora from Feb 9 till December 20, 2013.