South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, September 09, 2011:  A woman was seriously injured in the eye when paramilitary CRPF trooper shot a marble from a slingshot at Saraf Kadal in  Srinagar City on Friday September 9.
Reports quoting eyewitnesses said that clashes erupted between protestors and contingent of Police and paramilitary CRPF at Saraf Kadal area.
The police and CRPF resorted to baton charge to disperse the youth. The CRPF also fired marble from slingshot at the youths.

Srinagar, September 6, 2011- Last year, 2010 September 06, in Palhalan, in Baramulla district, four people lost their lives and one among the injured passed away a week later. A year later, Uzma Falak traces their stories in the labyrinths of a village, where 41-days of unrelenting curfew gave it name- ‘The Gaza of Kashmir’. The stories of the dead bring to fore the irony of fate, how destinies crossed path and their kin harbour tragedies in silence.

Double Standards As World Ignores Kashmir Massacres
Submitted by Faddy Qazi on September 5, 2011
by Eric Margolis
www.pakistankakhudahafiz.com/about
The state human rights commission of the Indian-ruled portion of Kashmir reported its investigators had found 2,156 bodies buried in unmarked graves in 38 locations. Most were young men. Many bore bullets wounds.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PUBLIC STATEMENT:  22 August 2011:  Index: ASA 20/043/2011: India: Need for urgent action as p olice report confirms existence of unmarked graves of disappeared persons in Jammu and Kashmir. Following a report by a police investigation team, confirming the existence of unmarked graves containing bodies of persons subject to enforced disappearances, urgent action needs to be taken including preserving the evidence and widening the investigation across Jammu and Kashmir said Amnesty International today.

 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.