.: Human Rights

Date: 3 Feb 2012

JAMMU: Two cops, including an SP have been convicted of murder of a colleague, which the culprits had initially tried to project as a fake encounter killing, after more than 13 years of the incident.



Date: 1 Feb 2012

Truth is the biggest casualty in a war is one fact that the people of Jammu and Kashmir has long come to live in violence and in peace. Since the first footprint of security forces in Kashmir valley more than two decades ago, much water has flown down the river Jhelum.



Date: 31 Jan 2012

It can’t be a case of setting a bad precedent. That was already set when Mumma Kana, an unknown informer of the security agencies made it to the list of the officially prestigious Padma awards, two years ago, for what was described as his ‘service in the social sector.’



Date: 29 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR: "Yeh Gujarat hai, yehan dekh key chalna padta hai" retorted the Gujarat ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad) Chief to the repeated queries of the family of Bashir Ahmed Baba (30).



Date: 29 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR, Jan 28: Kashmiri students studying in different universities and colleges of Madhya Pradesh (MP) have alleged that they are being forced to vacate the make shift residences (rented accommodations) by the people of the state after the Ujjain shoot out in which a Sopore student was injured.



Date: 28 Jan 2012

Stockholm: Swedish police arrested Lom-Ali Artsuyev during his application for political asylum at the immigration office of the country. The police said he was" wanted by Interpol", reports a Chechen Democratic website, IchkeriyaInfo.



Date: 28 Jan 2012

Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani has warned the government of serious consequences if “political prisoners” incarnated at the Srinagar Central Jail are shifted to jails outside the Valley.



Date: 28 Jan 2012

Srinagar Jan 27: Army’s gallantry awards to the two police officers accused of killing a youth in custody in July last year have triggered outrage among the human rights defenders across the Valley.



Date: 25 Jan 2012

JAMMU: Tens of thousands of orphans are suffering from trauma and other stress related diseases including depression, sleeplessness and nausea due to the ongoing conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.

This is evident from a survey conducted by a non-governmental child welfare organization last year.



Date: 25 Jan 2012

JAMMU: A global human rights watch group has given teeth to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's now almost forgotten call - for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some parts of the state.



Date: 23 Jan 2012

JAMMU: Officially the figures are 9,000 widows and 25,000 orphans, but activists claim the figures are much higher. Women and children have been among the worst hit in the over two decades-old terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Providing them relief and rehabilitation is now "among the priorities of the state government", says a state minister.



Date: 22 Jan 2012

Srinagar: In a usually busy Gawkadal locality here, there are no apparent signs of a carnage that the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men carried out over two decades before. Yet, the memories of the incident, in which 52 civilians fell down to the bullets of CRPF are still fresh in the hearts and minds of its witnesses and survivors.



Date: 22 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR, Jan 21: If this could be some indication of the possible change in the Indian civil society vis-à-vis Kashmir issue, an Indian film maker, has video-graphed the brutal tortures meted out to the Kashmiris by the forces during the armed struggle.



Date: 18 Jan 2012

All it takes is an army general’s assertion to puncture chief minister Omar Abdullah’s mythical balloon of Armed Forces Special Powers Act revocation. The army commander northern command, General K.T. Parnaik, in Jammu, asserted on Army Day that it was for the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Defence Ministry to decide on any review of the AFSPA.



Date: 18 Jan 2012

Srinagar: On November 3, 1990 Farooq Ahmad Rather, was picked up by unidentified persons when he was on his way to college. But family members still waits for his body.



Date: 16 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR, Jan 15: A number of Kashmiri students studying in Madhya Pradesh (MP) have alleged that they were being harassed by police and asked to get credentials verified by the Jammu and Kashmir police.



Date: 15 Jan 2012

The report based on an RTI response to review of Armed Forces Special Powers Act exposes the hollow claims of the state government in challenging this draconian law. For several months, in a bid to cover up for his endless list of failures and incompetence ever since he assumed the reins of power, chief minister Omar Abdullah has made much noise about revocation of AFSPA only being a matter of days.



Date: 13 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR: What could be highly discomforting for the successive regimes in the state, the Government of India's Union Home Ministry has in a startling revelation bared that it never received any recommendation or request from the Jammu and Kashmir government, during past nine years, for withdrawal/amendment/revocation of the contentious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).



Date: 12 Jan 2012

JAMMU: An alleged fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 may return to haunt Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen Bikram Singh, one of the top contenders in the race for being the next Indian Army Chief. A petition by the mother of an alleged militant killed in firing by Rashtriya Rifles personnel in South Kashmir's Anantnag town in March 2001



Date: 8 Jan 2012

Srinagar: The magisterial inquiry ordered by Jammu and Kashmir government into the killing of a youth in CISF firing at Uri on January 2 will begin recording the statements of witnesses from tomorrow, official sources said.



Date: 8 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference (G) has termed the killing of Merajud-Din in Sopore as murder by police and has condemned the incident. It has also demanded an impartial probe into the incident. In a statement Hurriyat (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar said killing of Meraj-ud-Din was worst example of state terrorism, unleashed by police and other forces across the valley.



Date: 3 Jan 2012

Like many other things, normalcy in Kashmir is open to violently conflicting definitions. Going by the state government’s interpretation, the state has seen a perfectly normal 2011 with tourists overflowing and, above all, no mass uprisings like those witnessed in 2008 and 2010.



Date: 1 Jan 2012

SRINAGAR, Dec 31: The state government is yet to respond to objections raised by Raj Bhawan over ‘age’ clause mentioned in draft ordinance of the Public Safety Act (PSA).



Date: 28 Dec 2011

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Association of parents of Disappeared persons today held a silent sit in protest at Sher-I-Kashmir Park here against the enforced disappearances in the Valley.



Date: 27 Dec 2011

Srinagar, Dec 26: For 40-year-old Tabasum, the year 2011 has been of repeated grief and an endless battle. Her son Murtaza Manzoor of Maharaj Gunj Srinagar has been held under the controversial Public Safety Act again, third time this year.



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