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Jammu and Kashmir

India: End reprisals against the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) and human rights defenders in Kashmir

Sixteen human rights organisations today called on Indian authorities to immediately stop the reprisals against human rights defenders and organizations in Jammu and Kashmir,...

Delhi court grants bail to Kashmiri youth in UAPA case (Maktoob)

A Delhi Court has granted bail to a 22-year-old Kashmiri Youth, Mateen Ahmed Bhatt, in a UAPA case, observing that there was no evidence...

Torture, custodial killings continue to haunt lives in Jammu and Kashmir (Frontline)

By ANANDO BHAKTO Extrajudicial killings have been widely reported in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989 with the onset of insurgency. Immunity for security personnel has...

Police Probes Right-Wing Leader’s ‘Hate Speech’ (Kashmir Observer)

Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir police have started a probe into a purported hate speech video showing a right wing leader in Samba district of...

Why some say Jammu and Kashmir’s compensation process for civilian victims of violence is arbitrary (Scroll)

By Safwat Zargar  On June 8, 2020, militants shot dead Ajay Pandita, a Kashmiri Pandit sarpanch, in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Three days later, the Jammu...

Bombay HC rejects Kashmiri Professor’s plea to quash FIR for WhatsApp status on Article 370 (Greater Kashmir)

Srinagar, April 14: The Bombay High Court has rejected a plea to dismiss an FIR against a young Kashmiri professor who was charged for his...

Satya Pal Malik gets defamation notice from RSS leader over bribery allegation (Hindustan Times)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Ram Madhav has sent a defamation notice to former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in response to...

‘Am I a Terrorist?’: Iltija Mufti After J&K Police Tell Court It Is Not in Favour of Issuing Passport (The Wire)

By Jehangir Ali Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police have invoked the Official Secrets Act in its “verification report” on Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti,...

Bajrang Dal members raise hateful slogans in Jammu

During the Ram Navami rally, Bajrang Dal members shouted slogans: “We will make India a Hindu nation. India is a Hindu nation.”