South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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.

Srinagar, October 9,2011: In Srinagar, the Bar Association has said that the inmates at the Baramulla Jail on September 27 were mercilessly beaten by the jail authorities and paramilitary forces after the inmates went on a hunger strike against the inhumane treatment meted out to them.

A spokesperson of the Bar Association said, a dozen prisoners/detunes suffered injuries due to the beating. “Instead of taking them for treatment, they have been made to remain confined to their barracks and not are allowed to meet any one,” he said.

New Delhi, October 13, 2011: In New Delhi, a well known Indian lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan was ruthlessly beaten up by the members of a Hindu outfit in his Supreme Court lawyers’ chambers in New Delhi on Wednesday on his stand on Jammu and Kashmir.

Srinagar, October 16, 2011 :  The parents of Kashmiri detainees lodged in Tihar Jail, New Delhi, have expressed serious concern over the plight of their incarcerated sons in this jail.

in a statement, the parents said that these detainees were meted out very hostile and acrimonious treatment by the jail authorities.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011  KUPWARA: A teenage boy injured due to littered shell is being shifted to hospital. With the death of a teenage boy and a middle-aged man in frontier Kupwara district on Tuesday, the death toll due to littered shells in the Kashmir valley, since the beginning of the year, has reached to fifteen.

Watching his neighbour hammer the scrap cost death for Mudasir Ahmad Khan, 14, yesterday in the afternoon in Maidanpora village of the district. The scrap vendor, Ali Mohammad Bhat, 45, too could not survive the explosion.