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Unravel identity of Kunan Poshpora mass rape perpetrators, Kashmir court tells police
By News Desk | Srinagar, Kashmir A local court in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday asked the police for further investigation into the allegations of mass rape of women in North Kashmir’s Kunan Poshpora village. In the 23 year old case of the mass rape on 23-24 February 1991, a local court of the [...]
aasiya jeelani \ Human Rights \ India \ Kashmir \ kashmir conflict \ khurram parvez
Activists gather in Kashmir on Aasiya Jeelani’s death anniversary
By News Desk | Srinagar While addressing a seminar on ninth death anniversary of Aasiya Jeelani at Srinagar on Saturday, noted human rights activist Gautam Navlakha said that though the people of Kashmir have shunned path of violence ‘their voices still go unheard’. He held the Government of India responsible for ‘provoking’ youth in the [...]
cuba \ guantanamo bay \ Human Rights \ prisoners \ United States
Guantanamo Bay: The house of vile
By Ikram Ullah It became the unfortunate home for the refugees from Cuba and Haiti caught in the International waters during 1970s and continued the monomania through the half of 1990s when the last Haitian refugee was released in 1995 after being declared unlawful by Sterling Johnson Jr., a United States District Court Judge. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in [...]
Arundhati Roy \ Human Rights \ India \ Kashmir \ Srinagar
India will suffer what Kashmiris have gone through: Arundhati Roy
By News Desk Underscoring the need to punish the military and paramilitary forces for the heinous crimes they had allegedly committed in Kashmir, renowned writer and social activist Arundhati Roy Friday said Indians would suffer in future for what the people of Kashmir had gone through over last two decades.Roy accused India of not being [...]
gaw kadal massacre \ Human Rights \ India \ Kashmir
Remembering Gaw Kadal Massacre, Jan 21, 1990
It has been more than twenty years of the gateway to our road of the massacres. It was this day, twenty three years ago,
disappeared persons \ Human Rights \ India \ jammu and kashmir \ Kashmir
End the policy of lies and obduracy: APDP
This is the statement issued by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Kashmir. On 30th August 2012, APDP submitted 507 cases of enforced disappearances from Baramulla and Bandipora districts to the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) for investigations into the causes and circumstances which led to their disappearances. APDP had urged SHRC to [...]
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Minor Danish to remain in police remand till Dec 9: Court
By Shahid Tantray, Photojournalist | Srinagar, Kashmir A local court in Srinagar, Kashmir, today, extended the remand of Danish Farooq Wani, a minor of 16-years-old, after he was re-arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police of Kralkhud Police Station, on November 26, allegedly for being a stone thrower. Danish was taken handcuffed to the court [...]
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JK police arrests sixteen year-old-boy, after court grants bail
By Shahid Tantray Sixteen year old, Danish, was arrested on November 19, 2012, by the Jammu and Kashmir police on charges of stone throwing. A district court had issued remand term for two days. On November 26, he was produced in the court and got bail from district sessions court. Immediately after his release, the [...]
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Representatives of Kuldeep Khoda try to persuade us to withdraw the case: JKCCS
This is the statement issued today by the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society. INJUSTICE CONTINUES On 12 September 2012, a little less than five months after the son of one of the victims of the infamous Bhaderwah triple murder case filed a complaint before the State Human Rights Commission [SHRC], the SHRC dismissed the [...]
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Who is calling the shots in Kashmir?
By Gowhar Geelani Perhaps it is the state’s worst-kept secret that politics of any kind is not allowed inside the University of Kashmir. Since past two decades the so-called mainstream politicians, perhaps deeply disturbed by the popularity of leaders belonging to the pro-resistance camp, have been pitching for “de-linking politics from academics”. In this very [...]
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Army kills 21-year-old youth in Kashmir
Photos and Text by Aabid Nabi Bandipora: A 21-year-old youth, Hilal Ahmed Dar, was killed in Army firing in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday night. He was killed in Halmathpora village in the Aloosa area of the district, 55 kms from Srinagar. The killing has triggered massive protests across the area and several people [...]
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Interlocutors report on J-K is worth nothing: DSU
This is the statement of Democratic Students Union on the report of the three member team of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir. The Group of Interlocutors comprising Radha Kumar, M.M. Ansari and D. Padgaonkar (Chairman) had been hastily commissioned by the Indian state in the face of the historic outburst of popular anger that erupted [...]
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