J&K human rights groups release report documenting decade-long torture of civilians by security forces
5 years, 7 months ago

J&K human rights groups release report documenting decade-long torture of civilians by security forces

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: The following report contains graphic descriptions of physical violence. Despite all that is already known about the deplorable human rights situation in the state, a new report “Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir”, launched on 20 May, by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, must make the rest of the country take a hard look at what is going on there. Cases of torture are rarely registered or punished and reports on human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir tend to be wilfully ignored or flatly denied by the government and security forces. * With laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Public Safety Act used for prolonged detention, the report points out that “An environment where torture, both against combatants and non-combatants, is carried out with impunity, and irrespective of gender and age, is telling of the widespread prevalence of this practice as a ‘normal’ way of punishing a community to teach them a lesson and coerce them into falling in line.” The government is not keen to repeal or amend AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir. More importantly, the report said the Indian government has tried to stop the reporting of human rights violations meted out in Kashmir by banning the entry of foreign journalists into Jammu and Kashmir, which has been denoted as a “protected area” under Foreigners’ Order, 1958.

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Firstpost  

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Associated Press  

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Al Jazeera  

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