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Publish Date: 21-05-19 12:06 AM
Srinagar: Prisoners in Jammu and Kashmir have been subjected to abuse and torture, including “water-boarding, sleep deprivation and sexualised torture”, according to a report by two rights bodies. The 560-page report released on Monday mentions solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and sexualised torture including rape and sodomy, used as torture techniques against Kashmiris.
Publish Date: 20-05-19 11:45 PM
Srinagar, May 20: A prominent rights group in occupied Kashmir is advocating for the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what it calls the endemic use of torture by Indian forces who have faced a decades-long anti-India uprising in the disputed region. The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) on Monday […]
Publish Date: 20-05-19 10:31 PM
Geneva, May 20 (KGN): Three special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have written to India asking for details on steps taken to punish or provide justice to victims and their next of kin in 76 cases of torture and arbitrary killing in Jammu and Kashmir since 1990.
Publish Date: 13-01-19 7:54 PM
Shopian: At least eleven civilians were injured after the forces fired live ammunition and pellets at protesters in Sugan village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, even as multiple rounds of funeral prayers were held for slain Al Badr commander Zeenat ul Islam and his associate Shakeel Dar. Reports said that the forces had blocked all […]
Publish Date: 6-01-19 8:15 PM
“Survivors, eye-witnesses recount the horrific tragedy”Sopore: On the 26th year of the Sopore massacre in which 57 civilians were killed by the Border Security Force soldiers today, the memories of that carnage are still fresh in this apple town.The witnesses said: “It was a cold January morning in 1993, when 57 civilians were killed by […]
Publish Date: 5-01-19 4:14 PM
(By Muhammad Farooq Rehmani) The principles accepted and laid down in India-Pakistan communications with the UNCIP on Kashmir dated Decemberists 23 and December 25 and adopted by the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, are supplementary to the Commission’s Resolution of August 13, 1948. Its first question links accession of J&K to a free […]
Publish Date: 3-01-19 8:09 PM
Srinagar: Three militants and an army soldier were killed in a day-long gunfight in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, even as several civilians were injured in ensuing clashes. A top police officer told Greater Kashmir that three militants were killed in the gunfight that broke out today morning after a joint […]
Publish Date: 22-12-18 1:46 PM
Islamabad: In special reference to the occupied Kashmir, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression David Kaye has criticised India for expanding the scope of its censorship tools and efforts, at the expense of individual rights to freedom of expression, access to information, freedom of association and other fundamental human rights.
Publish Date: 3-01-19 12:21 PM
Srinagar: At least six civilians were injured in clashes with the government forces in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday. Intense clashes erupted in several area of Tral including the main town soon after a gunfight broke out between the militants and the forces in Gulshanpora area today morning. An eye witness […]
Publish Date: 1-01-19 8:41 PM
“Even the seasons did not spare the harried people who suffered damages to crops, losses to business, even as death stalked the land” Shopian: The year 2018 started with a dry winter and least snowfall in a decade. It was a bad start – and a bad omen, for those who believe in such things […]
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