South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

New Delhi, Nov 16, 2011: In New Delhi, the Asian Centre for Human Rights in its fact finding report on Kashmir has said that a large number of children were detained under the draconian law, Public Safety Act during the uprising in 2010. The report deplored that the Act provided preventive detention for up to two years without producing a person to a court of law. The report mentioned that juveniles in Kashmir were being denied access to justice and benefits of the special protection to the minors.

Srinagar, November 16, 2011: The Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has occupied the major chunk of land in the Sopore Industrial Estates.

Till date, nearly 60 per cent of the Sopore Industrial estate, established in 1972 on 80 kannals of the land, is occupied by the CRPF as a result large chunk of the estate land is defunct since December 7, 1989.

Srinagar, Oct 31 2011 : In Srinagar, the High Court has issued notices to regime led by Omar Abdullah and Indian Defence Ministry to file their objections within a
week regarding re-investigation of an fake encounter of a civilian identified as Abdullah Bhat son of Qadir Bhat of Machil, Kupwara that took place at Janglat Mandi, Islamabad in South Kashmir in 2001.

Srinagar, October 27 : A local court has directed the Indian Army  to submit reply within four weeks on the petition filed against occupation of 14 kanals of land and residential houses by the army in Bandipura.

During the hearing of the petition, the court was informed that the Indian army had been illegally occupying around 14 kanals of land and two residential houses in the Bandipura area for the last many years.

Srinagar Oct 25. 2011: The High Court has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to comply with the earlier direction vis-à-vis the constitution of Special Investigation Team to investigate Tufail Matoo case and file the compliance report to it within one week.

 The Court passed the direction after counsel for the petitioner, Mian Abdul Qayoom pleaded before it that the earlier court direction regarding the constitution of Special Investigation Team (SIT)  was not complied with by the state.

Srinagar, Oct 24, 2011: The residents and traders of Saraf Kadal in Srinagar are up in arms against the authority for undue victimization of the innocent people in the garb of teargas shelling on peaceful protesters. The complainants said it had become almost a routine that after Friday congregational Salah pitched-battles erupt between protesters and Indian paramilitary forces and Special Operations Group in the area. And this is when, the complainants said, the police and paramilitary CRPF resort to teargas shelling.

Srinagar, Oct 23, 2011: The Indian army opposing the repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) said that the conditions are not right for lifting the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act in from some areas  in Jammu and Kashmir. .And this is what the Army has perhaps told the Cabinet Secretary who's in Jammu and Kashmir to assess the situation.  Indian Army, CRPF, BSF personnel didn’t respond to Omar Abdulla’s AFSPA revocation call in a meeting on Sunday with the top Indian secretaries which was held in Sriangar.

Srinagar, Oct 22: Kashmiri broadcaster, Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor, who works for the BBC, has lamented curbs and pressures on the media in Kashmir, and said that Indian news organisations projected the state as a war zone. She said that saffronization wave sweeping India since 1989 had had a deep impact on the media as well, creating a state of intellectual bankruptcy out of which it was yet to emerge.

New Delhi, Oct 21: The parents of MBBS student, Wasim Akram Malik, who was arrested by the India’s National Investigating Agency (NIA) on September 7 Delhi High Court Blast, have said that their son was being pressured to own the responsibility for the incident.

Reyaz Malik and his wife Shameema, said that they were summoned by National Investigation Agency sleuths of Indian on October 17, are in the dark about the welfare of their son Wasim, who was studying medicine in Bangladesh.

Srinagar, October 12, 2011: An injured young boy succumbed to his bullet injuries, today, in Pampore. The 18 year old boy Muzaffar Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Nabi Mir of Kadalbal Pampore who was critically injured during indiscriminate fire of Indian paramilitary forces on September 13, 2011, succumbed to his injuries. Thousands of people including JKLF Chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik, senior AHPC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Yasmeen Raja and other leaders participated in the funeral prayer of the victim.