South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Poonch May 8,2012 : A  constable of Special Police Officer forcebly molested and raped a young girl in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Constable Mohammad Tahir raped the13-year-girl who is reported was his step-daughter at his residential quarters in District Police Lines in Poonch when his wife had gone to Rajouri district for some work on Sunday night, a police officer told to media . The girl narrated the entire happening to her mother, who returned in the morning and a complaint was lodged against the constable in Poonch, he said.

Srinagar, April 21 2012: The international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International has reiterated its call to repeal black laws, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) from Jammu and Kashmir.

Srinagar, April 21,2012: body of 55-year-old person was recovered in suspicious circumstances in Islamabad district. Bijbehara police recovered a dead body a laborer by profession Mohammad Ashfaq Gorsi, (55), son of Mehraj-u-Din resident of Chambal Banihal at Baba Mohalla in Bijbehara, said a police spokesman.

New Delhi, April 22 :  In India, a Kashmiri student of Barkatullah University has said that he and his three colleagues face a threat to their life after filing of a police complaint against a head of the department on his poor semester marks without any proper reason and ragging of some students to them," Yousuf said.
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Mohammad Yousuf Parra, a post-graduate commerce student, said that the chief warden of Jawahar Lal boys' hostel in BU in Bhopal has threatened to kill me if I don't withdraw my complaints against the HoD and some students."

Srinagar, April 23, 2012: The global human rights group, Amnesty International team, which has just finished their 10-day visit to Kashmir, will visit again to Kashmir in near future. After taking cognizance of latest human rights violations and detention of youths under the black law, Public Safety Act, the two-member Amnesty International team left the Valley on Sunday said Amnesty International will come up with a comprehensive report over the happenings in Valley.

Srinagar, Apr 17, 2012: An Indian army officer who abducted and misbehaved a minor girl hailing from Shopian district in south Kashmir was arrested today.

By Raies Mir: The unresolved Kashmir has affected psychological, social and economical problems among the people of conflict while the 20- year long military violence in Kashmir left an indelible mark on the life of women in Kashmir who are suffering physically, socially, psychologically and economically.

New Delhi, April 0 4, 2012: A new book written by foreign investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark has said that four foreign tourists abducted from Pahalgam in South Kashmir Islamabad in 1995 were killed by a group of militants-sponsored by Indian army. Now a new book said that they were killed by a group of militants sponsored by the Indian army, writes the Asian Age.

The fate of the four Western tourists abducted in Kashmir in June 1995 has never been known for sure.

Srinagar, Mar 22, 2012:  A 20-year old Sajad Ahmad Dar detained under black law, Public Safety Act (PSA) died in a Hospital in Srinagar due to lack of timely medical treatment. The family of the deceased said that infamous Indian armed group; Special Operations Group was responsible for the death, as they did not provide him medical treatment despite court directions. He was detained under draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA) at Kupwara district jail died in a hospital in Srinagar.

Srinagar, March 9 2012: Omar Abdullah has admitted and disclosed that there are 36,600 widows, orphans and handicapped persons since the military violence erupted in 1990 in Jammu and Kashmir.
As per the survey conducted by Rehabilitation Council of Social Welfare Department in 2007-08, among the victims 8616 were widows and 26086 orphans and 1903 disabled, handicapped persons affected by military related incidents of violence ,said Omar Abdullah gave this breakup in a written reply today.