South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 New Delhi, September 27, 2021 : The Indian Flight Lieutenant allegedly raped an officer in Tamil Nadu state in India. The Indian Airforce College in Redfields, Coimbatore was booked under Section 376 (punishment for rape)  and arrested for allegedly raping an officer .The officer has been sent to judicial custody and is currently lodged at Udumalpet jail, the media reports said. 

September 26, 2021 Indian troops martyred two youth in Bandipora district, today. Indian troops during violent Allout cordon and search operation killed  Abid Rashid Dar  and Azad Ahmed Shah in Watrina area of Bandipora district of north Kashmir.

Assam, September 24, 2021  : In India, a 12-year-old Shakh Farid, a Class 7 student, was killed in Indian Assam police firing after he had left home on Thursday afternoon to go the post-office to get his Aadhaar card. He returned home dead on a horse cart. human rights newsAround late afternoon, Farid’s parents heard that their son was killed. He was identified with the Aadhaar card which was in his pocket.

 London, September 25, 2021 : The Members of British Parliament have called on their government to use its weight to help resolve the decades old Kashmir dispute, and that the entry of the Indian High Commissioner in the parliament be barred. 

New York, September 25, 2021 : At the United Nations, Pakistan has firmly rejected India’s claim that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part.Reacting to the Indian claim, Pakistani delegate Saima Saleem said that occupied Kashmir was not a “so-called integral part of India nor is it India’s internal matter”.“India remains in occupation of an internationally recognised disputed territory whose final disposition needs to be decided in accordance with the democratic principle of a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices, as provided for under numerous resolutions of the Security Council,” she said.

WASHINGTON, D.C, September 23 (KMS):  The Human rights groups and interfaith leaders planned a protest to oppose the U.S. visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Kashmir Media Service, the rally will be held on Thursday in Lafayette Park near the White House. The organizers said they want to highlight the “state-sanctioned discrimination, intimidation, persecution, physical attacks and killings of religious minorities by Hindu right-wing extremists in India.

MIRZAPUR, UP,September 23 :  The skeletons of three minor girls, who had been reported missing since the past one month, have been found in a forest in Indian state Utter Pardesh.The girls had left their home with their mother in Belahi village of the Halia area in Mirzapur district of the month a month ago and were missing since then. The mother is now absconding after the recovery of skeletons that have been sent for autopsy and forensic examination.

 New Delhi, September 23 , 2021:  In India, a group of men and women allegedly beat to death a 65-year-old  Muslim man   and two Muslim men were beaten up brutally by a Hindutva mob in in two Indian states Bihar and Utter Pardesh.A group of women fatally thrashed and killed an aged Muslimon in Madhepura distict of Bihar state.The attack is said to have been sparked after Akbar asked the women why they threw trash and bottles of liquor on him while he passes by the house to go to the mosque for prayers.

NEW DELHI , September 23 : The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in its annual report, has termed the arrest of Safoora Zargarand Christian James Michel   by Indian authorities as arbitrary. The report in respect to Safoora Zargar  stated, “Several human rights defenders were detained under vague and overly broad national security and anti-terrorism provisions, giving the authorities wide discretion to criminalise their peaceful activities.” 

Srinagar, Sept 22, 2021:  A youth was injured in Indian troops firing at Azad Gunj area of  Baramulla district of IIOJK on Wednesday.Reports said that youth identified as Mohsin Solih of Iqbal Colony Baramulla was injured in firing  by Indian forces. A top police official of the district told mediamen that a youth was injured in a firing incident by an Indian army party at Azad Gunj. The injured youth has been identified as Mohsin Solih, reported said.Authorities at GMC Baramulla said the youth has suffered an injury in his leg. He is stable, they said.