Curfew continues in Kashmir Valley, several Injured

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.

Indian paramilitary CRPF personnel continues to occupy Kashmir valley hospitals

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.

India hangs Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail, Delhi, Afzal Guru wrote letter to wife just before execution

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.

Men in uniform involved in killing of youth in Sopore

HRC awaits on Sopore custodial killing
Thursday, February 07,  2013:  The Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission (HRC)  has asked the Director General of Police (DGP) to order a high level departmental enquiry against some senior police officers to ascertain their culpability in the incident of custodial killing of a Sopore youth in 2011.

2010 agitation killings: ‘Why only 17 of the 117 civilian killings brought under the purview of inquiry’

 
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).

India child sex victims 'humiliated': Human Rights Watch

 
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.

Indian forces involved rights abuses still enjoy immunity in Kashmir: human right watch

New York, February 01,2013 : The New York-based international human rights organization The Human Rights Watch has said that India’s human rights situation took serious turns for the worse with respect to civil society protections with troops responsible for serious rights abuses in  Kashmir remain effectively immune from prosecution under the draconian law Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

Indian Army JCO abducted/rape a Kashmiri student girl

Srinagar, Jan 30, 2013: An Indian army officer Naib Subedar (JCO) of Army's Territorial Battalion 163 TA Bn, kidnapped a minor girl student on Jan 27 from Dahargulun in Pattan and raped her in a hotel in Mendhar in Rajouri. 

Impunity has made armed forces habitual offenders, India will suffer for what it did in Kashmir: Arundhati Roy

New Delhi, January 26 : Underscoring the need to punish the Indian armed forces personnel involved in human rights violations in Kashmir, renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy has said that impunity enjoyed by the forces had made them habitual offenders.

Protest against atrocities in Srinagar

Srinagar, January 14 :  People staged a sit-in protest against the atrocities of  police and Indian paramilitary forces in Srinagar. Indian police personnel barged into the house of one Ghulam Muhammad Baig at Barzulla in Srinagar and inhumanely tortured his son Waseem Ahmad Baig .

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