South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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.

New York, October 20:  The Human Rights Watch has appealed to India to revoke the draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, as it violated India’s obligations under international human rights laws.

New Delhi, October 20 : The anti-Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) caravan was attacked by Hindu extremists as it arrived in New Delhi.

The spokesman for the caravan, Afzal Khan, told media that as they reached New Delhi, a band of Hindu extremists assaulted them, hurling abuses and thrashing the participants. “They also snatched our mike and threw tomatoes and black colour on us,” he added

Srinagar, September  28 :  Indian troops beat up and injured  eight political prisoners in District Jail Baramulla. Personnel of Indian Central Reserve Police Force and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) men ruthlessly beat up and injured the detainees when the prisoners peacefully took demonstrations against the miseries and injustice perpetrated by the jail authority.

Srinagar, September 27, 2011: In the Anchidora cold blooded murder case, the Court has granted bail to the police constable earlier this year who was reported one involved in the killing of three boys in Islamabad town.

Court of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Muhammad Nazir Fida, while pronouncing the judgment, held that no material evidence had come against the constable, Nissar Ahmad which would suggest his involvement in the killing of three teenagers.

Surankote (Poonch), September 27, 2011: Even the dead would turn in their graves at such a startling revelation. Mail Today has found mass graves in Poonch district where 2,500 unidentified bodies were buried by a lone gravedigger.

It is pertinent to note here that the human rights commission of Kashmir had found in an inquiry over 2,100 unidentified bodies at 38 sites in the Kashmir Valley. The commission's report had come out last month.

But this is for the first time that graves unknown men have been identified in the Jammu region.

Srinagar, September 09, 2011:   An administrative member which is called a village head or Sarpanch sponsored by the authority in Kashmir and a police man who are also enjoying black laws and a policeman disgraced, molested and attempted to rape a teenage girl in Uri town of Baramulla district.

The shocking incident surfaced on September 9, 2011 when the Sarpanch (village head), Raja Ghulam Mohammad Khan, along with a policeman, and some goons intercepted the girl, a class 11 student, when she was heading for school, eyewitnesses said.