South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

India, MYSURU, September 16, 2021:In India, theBJP and Pro-Hindutva group Hindu Jagarana Vedike on Thursday assaulted and manhandled a journalist of an Urdu daily at a protest called by Hindu Jagaran Vedike in Karnatka state .  The protest at Mysore Palace North Gate protest was called against the demolition of temples, especially the Adishakti Mahadevamma temple at Huchgani village in Nanjangud taluk recently.

NEW DELHI September 16, 202 : In India, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths on Thursday conducted a raid on the office and home of  a prominent human rights activist and former IAS officer,Harsh Mander in New Delhi. The raid, according to The Quint, came hours after Mander and his wife left for Germany for a nine-month fellowship offered by Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. 

Srinagar, 16 September : The Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has recorded a 15% increase in cognisable

 New Delhi, September 16, 2021: : As many as 77 rape cases were reported across India on an average every day in 2020, totalling to 28,046 such incidents during the year. 

August 27, 2021 By Jameel Ahmad:The Indian government’s assault is reaching unlimited proportions in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). All fundamental freedoms are being made hostage to a fascist mindset. The Right to education to our (Kashmiri) students is being denied with nefarious intentions.  A generation of students is being harassed and humiliated. This serious situation deserves a preventive action by the international community including United Nations, European Union and Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The Kashmiri students studying in different geographies including Pakistan are grievously affected by the Indian designs. In the past many years, we have seen how the tyrant occupation in IIOJK uses propaganda through its media and agencies against Pakistan in order to defame and tarnish the image of the country.
 

 Madhya Pardesh, August 23, 2021: A video is being widely circulated on social media showing Tasleem, a bangle seller in Indian state Madhya Pradesh’s Govidnagar, being thrashed by Hindutva men for entering the Hindu neighbourhood. 

August 20, 2021  By Muslim Mirror Staff India  New Delhi: Over 100 academics, activists, and writers have issued a statement demanding immediate and unconditional release of people arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. They condemned the prolonged incarceration of the  activists. 

 Guwahati, August 21 , 2021: In Indian, Assam Police arrested fourteen Muslims were arrested from across Assam for alleged social media posts supporting the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, police said on Saturday.   Police officials said the they booked them under different sections of the black laws Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, IT Act and the CrPC. "A total of 14 people have been arrested so far in 11 districts of Assam, which includes one MBBS student of Hailakandi, studying in Tezpur Medical college, and two others," a senior police official added. 

August 21, 2021 Bengaluru, August 21, 2021: In India, a Dalit family was attacked by upper caste men for demanding prasad at a temple in Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru south state Karnatka. Munianjinappa and his wife Aruna, an Asha worker, have two sons. On August 14, a special puja was organised at the Ramanathapura Anjaneya temple. When their younger son went to collect prasad at the temple, he was allegedly manhandled by Kishore, a youth belonging to an upper caste.