South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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.

New Delhi, January 23 : The Indian paramilitary Border Security Force has admitted “certain administrative lapses” on the part of BSF personnel involved in last year’s Ramban firing incident in Jammu and have said the paramilitary will soon begin trial of its six men in connection with the incident.

Jammu, January 23 : Police authorities were forced to order suspension of three officials including one Sub Inspector following protests by the people over the killing of a civilian, tortured to death by the police personnel at Chatru in Kishtwar district.
A magisterial inquiry has also been ordered into the death.
Reports said 64 years old Raja Ram son of Bishan Dass, a resident of village Tagoot in Dedpeth area, was heading towards his house when he was intercepted by the police personnel and was mercilessly beaten up by the cops at police post.

Srinagar, Monday, January 20: International Forum for Justice Chairman Muhammad Ahsan Untoo Monday staged a peaceful silent protest near clock tower in Lal Chowk Srinagar against multiple massacres of Kashmir Valley.

Feb 23, 2014: It was on the intervening night of 23/24 February 1991 at Kunan-Poshpora  village in  Kupwara, when Indian army’s 4-Rajput Rifles and 68-Moutain Brigade gang raped dozens of women of Kunan Poshpora and the men from the area were subject to mass torture and this process was still not stoped in Jammu and Kashmir.

(New York, January 17, 2014) – Indian authorities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh should immediately stop evicting people from camps who fled communal violence in September 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. State authorities should conclude their investigations into riot-related crimes, including alleged sexual violence, and initiate appropriate prosecutions.  

Jammu, January 16, 2014: The local police have arrested a Special Police Officer (SPO) for allegedly outraging the modesty of an Australian national at the Jammu railway station on Jan 15.
According to police sources, the SPO, identified as Jeet Lal, allegedly used abusive language and outraged the modesty of the Australian national, who had come to the town for a religious tour.

December 27, 2013: At least 40 Muslim children below the age of 12 years have perished in the relief camps for people displaced during the anti-Muslim riots in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Indian state Utter Pardesh.