South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

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.

Srinagar, August 7, 2011: The recent news of a 45 year-old Kashmiri woman having been kidnapped and gang rapped in a south Indian capital Delhi locality has not only again put Delhi on charts of the most unsafe cities in India but also reinstated the fears in the minds of the Kashmiris about the security of their children especially girl students who are studying in Delhi and other metros in India.

Srinagar, July 31, 2011:  A 25-year-old civilian Nazim Rashid Shalla alias Anjum, son of Abdul Rashid Shalla of Alamdar Mohalla was killed in police custody in Sopore on Sunday July 31, triggering a mass protest.

Srinagar, July 31, 2011:  A 25-year-old civilian Nazim Rashid Shalla alias Anjum, son of Abdul Rashid Shalla of Alamdar Mohalla was killed in police custody in Sopore on Sunday July 31, triggering a mass protest.

Srinagar, July 28, 2011: A 27-year-old Muhammad Ashraf Dar,  son of Ghulam Ahmad of ChanKhan Sopore who got engaged last week with the dream to solemnize his marriage in near future, in Sopore was killed by unidentified gunmen. Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Muhammad Ashraf Dar and fired at Dar on Wednesday night before fleeing under the cover of darkness. This is second killing of civilian in the last five days in the area.

 Srinagar, July 25:  Indian trooper of 2 Rashtriya Rifle (RR) attempted to molest a  9th standard school girl in Wanigam in Pattan area of Baramulla district. 18 year old Nusrat Akhtar, daughter of Ghulam Nabi Yatoo, a resident of Yetipora Pattan, was on way to her Wanigam High School when the trooper of company headquarters of 2 RR located at Yetipora camp attempted to molest her.

Srinagar, July 21, 2011:  A 30-year-old married tribeswoman Rukaya Banoo wife of Muhammad Lateef Bhat of Gujjardhar Manzgam was abducted by the Indian army personnel and gang raped her at Manzigam in Damhal Hanjipora in Kulgam district. "The woman had gone to fetch water in Manzigam when Indian army troopers abducted her on Monday. Today she returned back saying that she was picked up by the group of Indian army and gang raped her," the protestor told media men. The protestors also raised anti-India and pro-liberation slogans.