South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

March 19, 2020 :  The authorities has imposed strict restrictions across the Srinagar district tomorrow (Friday).The District Magistrate, Srinagar in an order says, no public movement or activity will be allowed anywhere in the district. Only government officials with valid IDs will be allowed to move.Concerned agencies have been directed to ensure strict enforcement of restrictions across the district.Strict action will be taken against violators of the order. Government officials have been asked to ensure no one is found ferried in their vehicles.

 New Delhi, March 19 , 2020: The Amnesty International has said that India must restore full access to internet services in occupied Kashmir and ensure that people have full access to health and safety-related information in the wake of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Srinagar, March 19, 2020: Press freedom in Indian occupied Kashmir is “under a serious threat from security forces”, the International Press Institute (IPI) has said in a report.Raising concerns about the conditions of journalists in the disputed Muslim-majority region, the global media watchdog urged India’s Hindu nationalist government to end restrictions and harassment of journalists placed following revocation of the region’s special status last August.“Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir is under a dramatic state of repression,” Ravi R Prasad, director of advocacy at the Vienna-based IPI, said in a statement.“The state is using a mix of harassment, intimidation, surveillance and online information control to silence critical voices and force journalists to resort to self-censorship.”

 
Srinagar, March 19 , 2020): The High Court Bar Association (HCBA) in Srinagar has expressed concern over the deteriorating health of its President, Mian Abdul Qayoom Advocate, who is under illegal detention and in Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
The HCBA in a statement aid as per the media reports, New Delhi, the capital of India, mostly remains overcrowded with the people, as such is more vulnerable to the pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19). 

Srinagar, March 19, 2020: The illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik has announced to go on ‘a fast until death’ from 1st April 2020 against the authoritarian attitude of India. Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement released by his family in Srinagar, today, said that the Indian government had made a pledge with him that he would be provided with a genuine political space and efforts would be made for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute through a meaningful dialogue process. However, he added that India had reneged from this pledge. Muhammad Yasin Malik pointed out that besides Indian officials, many international diplomats were also on board for pursuing the idea behind the pledge.

 سری نگر  (ساوتھ ایشین وائر) جموں و کشمیر یوتھ سوشل فورم کے جنرل سکریٹری  ایڈووکیٹ۔ آصف احمد بابا نے جے کے ایل ایف کے نظربند سربراہ محمد یاسین ملک کے خلاف بھارتی حکام کے غیر انسانی سلوک کی شدید مذمت کی ہے ، جو تہاڑ جیل میں بند ہیں۔اپنے بیان میں ، انہوں نے کہا کہ جے کے ایل ایف کے سربراہ یاسین ملک 4 مارچ سے این آئی اے کی تحویل ، عدالتی تعصب اور کشمیریوں پر ریاستی دہشت گردی کے خلاف بھوک ہڑتال پر ہیں۔ساوتھ ایشین وائر کے مطابق پارٹی کے جنرل سکریٹری نے انسانی حقوق کی بین الاقوامی تنظیموں سے فوری طور پر مداخلت کرنے اور یسین ملک کی زندگی کو بچانے کی اپیل کی جو پہلے ہی متعدد بیماریوں میں مبتلا ہیں 

Srinagar, March 10, 2020 : In the name of preventing students from pro-freedom activities, Indian authorities have decided to install CCTV cameras at colleges and universities in the Kashmir valley. The CCTV cameras would be installed in all classrooms  for the colleges in Srinagar. The plan was discussed at a high-level meeting of Indian establishment. The colleges in Srinagar that will be getting the cameras installed on priority are the ones that would monitor the activities of the students. So preventing students from pro-freedom activities, Indian authorities are planning to install CCTV cameras at the colleges in the Kashmir valley.

 

Srinagar, March 05, 2020: The police personnel harassed two Kashmiri journalists, stopped them from carrying out their professional duties and snatched their cameras and mobile phones in Pulwama district. 

Srinagar, March 06, 2020:  The Police authorities have booked three youth of South Kashmir under draconian law, Public Safety Act . The authorities invoked the black law PSA against the youth, Nisar Ahmed Rathar, Mubarak Ahmed Dar and Faheem Ahmed Sofi. Nisar Ahmed Rathar was shifted to Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu while Mubarak Dar and Faheem Sofi were lodged at sub jail Matt

Srinagar, Mar 3, 2020:  Indian forces and police personnel, today, arrested five Kashmiri youth Kishtwar district for support to ongoing  freedom struggle of Jammu and Kashmir.Arrests were made during searches conducted by police in Marwah area and the arrested were identified as Ghulam Hussain son of Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Yaseen son of Ghulam Ali, Zakir Hussain son of Farooq Hussain, Mohammad Iqbal son of Habibullah and Bashir Ahmed son of Mohammad Ramzan, all residents of Marwah.
The Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA), , today arrested a father-daughter duo for allegedly helping and giving shelter to Kashmir youth struggling for freedom from India. 
Those arrested have been identified as Tariq Shah, 50, and his daughter Insha Jan, 23, of Hakripora village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. “In the continuing investigation of the Pulwama attack, NIA today arrested two more accused,” the NIA aid in a statement claimed.