South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 New Delhi, August 26, 2011 :  The Human Rights Watch has demanded that the Indian authorities should immediately open an independent, transparent and credible investigation into the unmarked graves discovered in Kashmir and should deliver justice by prosecuting the responsible people.

 Srinagar, August 21, 2011: An Indian government inquiry says dozens of unmarked graves in Kashmir hold 2156 unidentified bodies in unmarked graves at 38 sites in the Kashmir Valley since 1990.
 
The Jammu-Kashmir Human Rights Commission says in a report that police had claimed the 2,156 corpses were militants fighting against Indian rule in portions of the disputed Himalayan region.

 Rights groups say, however, that innocent people have been caught up in the conflict and some 8,000 have disappeared since 1989.
 

Srinagar, 20 August 2011: In Srinagar, the Omar Abdulla’s regime has slapped another draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA) against aged Hurriyat leader, Ghulam Nabi Sumji.

Srinagar 20 August 2011:  A complete shutdown was observed in Bijbehara town on Saturday on the death anniversary of a youth who was killed in government forces' action during last year's uprisings.
On this day last year, 24-year-old Nazir Ahmad Wani, son of Abdul Rehman Wani of Persha Mohallah was shot dead by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and policemen, when he was coming out of the Masjid after offering prayers, his family said.

Srinagar, 19 August 2011: Reports said that Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and policemen beat up photojournalists identified as Showkat Shafi and Narciso Contreras, while they were covering protest demonstrations in Nowhatta in Srinagar. They are being held inside Nowhatta police station, eyewitnesses said.

Narciso Contreras, who works for California-based Zuma Press, and Showkat Shafi, a stringer with Al-Jazeera English website, say they were targeted in Srinagar on Friday

Srinagar, August 17, 2011: Anumber of youth arrested in the on-going police crackdown has said that the police personnel have been subjected to violence in custody.

Dozens of detainees who were shifted to the Central Jail Srinagar on charges of pro-freedom protests and stone-pelting were seen in an injured condition, an eyewitness in the prison said.

Another batch of over a score of detainees brought to the jail on Tuesday, August 17 on the same charges also included some injured youth, the sources said.

Srinagar, August 17, 2011:  Srinagar, Aug 17: The pain was visible in her eyes. Grief was hidden behind each word she spoke. Her sun-beaten face clearly suggested how she struggles to fend her family and look for her son who was subjected to enforced disappearance by the Indian paramilitary forces in 1990. Mehtab Begum, the mother of one disappeared from Kupwara, hoped that her son will come home one day despite the passage of two decades.

Srinagar, August 18, 2011: Three members of a family, one of them seriously, including two girls, were injured when unknown assailants attacked them in Sopore on the intervening night of Thursday.

"Three member of a family including two girls were injured when unknown assailants broke into their house in the dead of the night and attacked them with sharp edged weapons," a police official said here.

Srinagar, August 13, 2011 : A Special Police Officer (SPO) and Territorial Army trooper who were arrested for the murder of a youth in Surankote area of Poonch in a fake encounter said that they engineered the killing for monetary and other gains.

"We had engineered this encounter for post, rewards and money," arrested SPO told a press conference in Surankote. The other accused and TA trooper claimed, "There was no involvement of any other army or police officer in the encounter".

SRINAGAR, August 8, 2011: One hundred seventy three cases of custodial killings and fake encounters have been reported in Jammu and Kashmir from November 2002 till date. From November 2, 2002 to November 2, 2005, 122 cases of custodial killings and fake encounters have been reported from Kashmir. From November 23, 2005 to June 6, 2008, 42 cases have been reported. Since January 2009 till date nine cases of custodial killings and fake encounters are reported.