South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Poonch, March 7, 2012: An Indian trooper of Territorial Army went berserk in Poonch town of Jammu and Kashmir and killed two women and injured two others on Wednesday.

Srinagar, March 6, 2012: In Srinagar, the authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have admitted that more than 400 cases of human rights abuses against Indian troops and other paramilitary forces personnel were registered in different police station in Jammu and Kashmir.

444 cases were registered against the Indian paramilitary forces and police in Jammu and Kashmir during the last three years, puppet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah informed the so-called Assembly on Monday March 5.

New Delhi, March 05, 2011: In New Delhi, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights in a press release has expressed outrage at the claim advanced by the Indian Army that no civil administration could register an FIR against army personnel for their actions without the sanction of the Indian government.

The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR in its press release voiced its deep concern at the policy of drift that had taken over and apathy of the authorities when it comes to a crackdown on acts of brutal crime committed by Indian army and police in Kashmir. 

Srinagar, March 02, 2012 : The Indian police have tightened crackdowns on Kashmiri youth living in different states of India particularly in New Delhi.

Delhi Police have launched massive crackdowns and enquiries related to Kashmiri youth, certainly making it uneasy for them especially thousands of Kashmiri students studying in India.

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.