South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, Wed, 13 Mar 2013: A 37-year-old civilian, Altaf Ahmad Wani son of Abdul Ahad Wani, resident of Saidpora, Eidgah a lone bread earner of his family was killed when 73 battalion of Indian paramilitary Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel opened fire at Zoonimar-Saidpora in Srinagaron Wednesday( Mar

Srinagar, Mar 9: Indian police arrested hundreds of youth including Hurriyet leaders and activists and women in Kashmir. One Kashmiri Hurriyet activist Fahmeeda Sofi was arrested when she was  attending DeM chairperson Aasiya Andrabi who was recently operated at Soura hospital in Srinagar.A police party from Soura police station and Rambagh police station raided the hospital and arrested Fahmeeda. 

 
Friday March 8. 2013 :  A Kashmiri girl was injured after  Indian government forces assaulted her in northern Kashmir in Kunzar in Tangmarg, her family told media men. They said Indian armed forces barged into houses in Pandithpor and Kunzar villages in  Tangmarg in Baramulla district. The forces hit a postgraduate student Massarat Daughter of Ghulam Nabi Sheikh with a cane and broke her tow teeth, She was rushed to PHC Kunzar and admitted in hospital.
 

Srinagar, Mar 7, 2013 : Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel using the deadly pepper gas on Kashmiri protestors in Kashmir, the people of Kashmir has said that use of pepper gas is an inhuman act. 
Human Rights Commission  in Kashmir while banning of use of pepper gas shelling  on  protestors, aleast two old age persons died and more than 30 persons including minors were shifted to Hospital after police and CRPF personals fired pepper gas in Srinagar city and other  districts of the valley .

Srinagar, March 7, 2013: Indian paramilitary forces and police personnel used brute force and fired teargas and peppers shells to disperse protesters in Hyderpora, Batmaloo and Zakoora in Srinagar, Khanpora, Cement Bridge and Palhalan in Baramulla, Narbal crossing in Budgam, Papchan in Bandipora and Cherkoot-Lolab in Kupwara district, a police spokesman said.
At least a dozen people were injured.

Srinagar, February 24. 2013 : The Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)  continues to occupy the buildings at premier health institutions of the Kashmir Valley despite the claims of the administration that Indian forces have vacated all the important buildings in Kashmir. The erstwhile Animal House of the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences, with multi-storey building and over 20 Kanal of land, still continues to be under the occupation of CRPF personnel.

New Delhi, February 09, 2013: Indian authorities hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru, a 43-year-old Kashmiri, convicted in the 2001 Indian parliament attack case, today, at 8:00am in Tehar Jail, Delhi.

 
Thursday, February 6, 2013: Pulling it up sharply for failing to act on its last year’s orders on the 2010 agitation victims, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has given last opportunity to the authorities to explain rationale behind referring only 17 of over 120 cases of killing of civilians to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI).

 
Thursday, February 07,2013:Child victims of sexual abuse in India are often mistreated and humiliated by police, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The report says sexual abuse is "disturbingly common" in Indian homes, schools and care homes, and government systems to deal with the issue of abuse are inadequate.
Reports say more than 7,200 children, including infants, are raped every year in India. Child rights activists believe many more cases go unreported.