South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Geneva, March 1, 2012: In Geneva, the United Nations Working Group on Human Rights, in its report submitted to the UN General Assembly, expressed serious concern over the allegations of enforced disappearances and presence of mass graves in occupied Kashmir.
According to 170-page report, the operations by military and paramilitary forces between 1989 and 2009 in Kashmir had resulted in more than 8,000 enforced and involuntary disappearances.

Srinagar, February 10, 2012: Indian troops of 32 Rashtriya Rifles killed a 20 year old Ashiq Hussain Rather son of Muhammad Akbar of Laisar village near Watargam of Rafiaabad in Baramulla district when he and his sister came out of their house to go to washroom at 8.30 pm. Ashiq died on spot. The inmates of the house raised hue and cry and villagers came out to protest against the killing.  The FIR6/2012 IRPF-302 was registered in Dangiwacha police station.

Sopore, February 19, 2012: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a 22-year-old mechanic in Sopore town on Sunday evening.  The unidentified gunmen knocked at the door of the house of Umar Rasool Kaboo, son of Ghulam Rasool Kaboo a resident of Arampora locality in Sopore town and asked him to come out at Arampora in Sopore at around 7.30 pm.

Srinagar, Feb 6, 2012: In India, in yet another incident of violence against Kashmiris, particularly students, police abused, thrashed and harassed without any reason a Kashmiri student pursuing engineering in a private engineering college in Haryana  which has created fear psychosis among Kashmiri students in the college.

London, 7 February 2012: The world human rights organization, Amnesty International, has reiterated its demand for the repeal of the black law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Kashmir.

Srinagar, January 29, 2012: The Kashmiri students studying in different universities and colleges of India particularly Madhya Pradesh (MP) have said that they are being forced to vacate the rented accommodations by the people of the Madhya Pradesh after the Ujjain shootout in which a Sopore student was injured.
The parents of several students studying in Madhya Pradesh told media men in Srinagar that the local residents of Indian state were asking the students to vacate the makeshift residences within no time.

New Delhi, January 29, 2012: Custodial killings, police abuse including torture, and failure to implement policies aimed at protecting vulnerable communities marred India's record in 2011, according to the Human Rights Watch World Report.
The global report released on Monday pointed out that immunity for abuses committed by Indian armed forces also continued, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian northeast states, and areas.

Srinagar, January 28, 2012: Senior police officers admitted that 421 unmarked graves existed in Baramulla district.

The 421 unmarked graves have been found in Barfamulla district. The police officails in Baramulla district who had completed the counting of unmarked graves and has found 421 such graves in the district said that the counting in Kupwara and Bandipore districts is yet to be completed and the process is gong on, told media men.

Srinagar, January 25, 2012: Unknown gunmen killed a businessman on Tuesday in Pulwama. The 48-year-old businessman Aijaz Ahmad Shah son of Abdul Gani Shah, of Shubdani Newa of Hokri Pulwama was shot in his residence and was rushed to a near by hospital on Tuesday. However, the doctors of the hospital declared that he was brought dead.

Srinagar, January 25, 2012: Unknown gunmen killed a businessman on Tuesday in Pulwama. The 48-year-old businessman Aijaz Ahmad Shah son of Abdul Gani Shah, of Shubdani Newa of Hokri Pulwama was shot in his residence and was rushed to a near by hospital on Tuesday. However, the doctors of the hospital declared that he was brought dead.