Sopur teenager was killed in fake encounter: SHRC (GreaterKashmir) – By Arif Shafi Wani Srinagar, Apr 2: Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Tuesday revealed that a teenager of Sopore was killed in 1997 a fake encounter in Handwara allegedly by Army and labeled as a militant. The Commission asked the Director General of […]
A New Intifada in Kashmir? Arundhati Roy & Sanjay Kak on the World’s Most Densely Militarized Area
March 19, 2013 By
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: As we continue our conversation with the author and activist Arundhati Roy, she is now joined in Chicago by Sanjay Kak, a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker. His most recent film is Jashn-e-Azadi, or How We Celebrate Freedom. He’s the […]
Thousands of Syrian women are detained, kidnapped and tortured: watchdog
March 10, 2013 By
- By Al Arabiya The Syrian Human rights network has found that 4257 women have been killed by the Syrian regime security forces since the start of the revolution in March 2011. As for female detainees, there are at least 6400 women, including 1000 university students. However, authorities continue to refuse handing out or revealing […]
Kashmiri women victims of worst HR violations
March 10, 2013 By
- By Kashmir News Service Islamabad, March 08 (KMS): As the world observes the International Women’s Day, today, the miseries and victimisation of Kashmiri women by Indian troops and police personnel in occupied Kashmir continue unabated.According to a report, released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, on the occasion of the International Women’s […]
22 Years after Kunan and Poshpora, Rethinking Kashmir
February 24, 2013 By
- By Abhijit Dutta, Kafila It looks like any other village in Kashmir. You go past a wooden bridge, past open fields winter-barren and wet with rain. Past mountains with snow on their chin. Past wistful looking poplars. Past a brook with clear water. Past grumpy apple trees gnarled like a grinch. Then the road narrows, […]
‘Britain must work with regimes that have abused human rights, says William Hague’ as if it does not do it already
February 15, 2013 By
Britain must work with regimes that have abused human rights, says William Hague (The Independent) – By Oliver Wight Britain must be prepared to share intelligence with foreign governments that could prevent a terrorist attack in this country or abroad even if those countries have questionable human rights records, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said […]
The House of Vile – Guantanamo Bay
February 13, 2013 By
- 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 […]
Back to the future: the rendition and torture of Mahdi Hashi
February 9, 2013 By
- By Arnaud Mafille, CagePrisoners In a 35 minutes phone call he was permitted to give to his lawyer, Mahdi Hashi was able to give a glimpse of the mistreatment he suffered during his disappearance in East Africa. These revelations prove that Barack Obama, despite his words, is indeed a proud inheritor of the legacy […]
Kashmir: Brutality Exposed, But No End To The Impunity
February 7, 2013 By
Instead of punishing the men in uniform who tortured two young men, the J&K Police is targeting those who exposed the act. – By Baba Umar WHAT WAS hidden in police lock-ups so far is slowly coming out in grainy videos from the Kashmir Valley. A video clip uploaded on YouTube recently shows personnel of the […]
Child with shrapnel in her skull denied medical treatment by Israel
February 5, 2013 By
Child survivor of Gaza massacre denied medical treatment by Israel (The Electronic Intifada) – By Rami Almeghari Twelve-year-old Amal Samouni still has shrapnel in her skull from the time Israel bombed her neighborhood in Gaza in early 2009. Amal lost 21 members of her extended family in that massacre, including her father Attieh and her brother Ahmad. As […]
