South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, Jan 13: Muslims residing in Hari Chek village of Tehsil Mahreen in Kathua district of Jammu region were assaulted and fired upon by the Hindu zealot Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers led by a local Sarpanch for slaughtering a cow in the village.Muslim Shoora Committee in Kishtwar area of Jammu also held a protest  led by Imam Jamia Masjid Kishtwar, Farooq Ahmed Kitchloo against attacks on the Muslims in Kathua. All but 10 houses of Muslims are located in the village and when according to eyewitnesses Hindu extremist Rashtriy

Srinagar, Dec 23,2016: The SMHS Hospital ward in Srinagar  which remained packed with patients during the past five months of Mass uprising was now witnessing again rush of patients now. Multiple surgeries are failing to restore the vision of many pellet-hit youth yet the ophthalmological ward at SMHS hospital is again witnessing patient rush.

Srinagar, Dec 7, 2016:  Indian forces used brute force and fired pellets, teargass shells on protesters in Murran area of Pulwama district Wednesday afternoon. Locals said that police tried to foil a pro-freedom rally ‘Muraan Chalo’ resulting in clashes. They said that forces raided the venue of the rally and youth pelted stones on forces deployed in strength in the area.
Police have  also arrested at least nine youth during a nocturnal raid in  Muran and Rahmoo areas of the district.

Washington Dec 7, 2016: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has said that Indian force used excessive and indiscriminate force against protesters . The Indian forces police and Central Reserve Police Force used weapons like pellet guns in Kashmir this year, resulting in injuries and deaths.

Srinagar, Nov 16:  Due to severe pellet injuries in both eyes that left , Faisal Ahmad could not appear in the 10th class  examinations.  The half-blind. student who was injured after Indian forces  directly fired dozens of pellets in his eyes on August 24 in Pulwama district.

Srinagar, Nov 16,2016:  Due to severe pellet injuries in both eyes that left , Faisal Ahmad could not appear in the 10th class  examinations.  The half-blind. student who was injured after Indian forces  directly fired dozens of pellets in his eyes on August 24 in Pulwama district.

Srinagar,  November 16,2016: Indian Police arrested a  12th class student from Nowhatta in Srinagar when class 12th examinations started across Kashmir valley .
The arrested student has been identified as Abdul Waheed Dar son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar, a resident of Pandan Nowhatta. Police also has confirmed his arrest. A top cop in police station Nowhatta confirmed the arrest and claimed that Waheed was wanted in a case for his involvement in a pro-freedom protests.

Srinagar, November 14, 2016:  In shopian district of conflict zone Kashmri, the wife of the Hurriyet leader, Moulana Sarjan Barkati, popularly known as “freedom chacha and Pied Piper of Kashmir”, for his peculiar way of sloganeering, has appealed to the human rights bodies that her illegally detiend husband be shifted to Srinagar jail from Kot-Balwal jail Jammu.

Srinagar, November 10, 2016:  A 14-year old 6th school grill  Munazah Rashid died  due to PAVA shell smoke fired by Indian forces in Srinagar.

Srinagar, November 7, 2016: A family from North Kashmir has been living in a rented house in Bandipora after as per the family; an Indian Army unit from 13 Rashtirya Rifles forcibly occupied their residential house in 2006, located in Argam  of Bandipore district. “It was March 4, 2006, when Indian Army personnel forcibly entered into my house and occupied it and since then all my efforts to retrieve the house have proved futile as neither authorities nor the India Army is ready to help me.