India dangerous place for Minorities: Report KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/17/2020 1:46:21 PM
‘Civic space completely erased within democratic framework in Kashmir’
JAMMU, Dec 16: While deeming India as a ‘Dangerous Place for Minorities’, the South Asia State of Minorities report 2020 has noted that Muslim-majority Kashmir where regressive constitutional changes in August 2019 were accompanied by a communication blackout, mass detentions, and a movement lockdown demonstrates “how civic space can be sought to be completely erased, within a formal democratic framework”.
It said that civic space in conflict-affected Kashmir has always been restricted. Authorities have relied on extraordinary laws, including the Public Safety Act (PSA) and the UAPA, to detain activists and protesters, imposed Section 144 of CrPC indiscriminately, and frequently resorted to internet shutdowns, recording at least 180 instances of internet blockades since 2012. They have also used ‘less-let
Mushaal asks US to stop selling weapons to India
Lauds Beverly Hill for raising voice against HR violations in IIOJK
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Mushaal Hussein Mallick, the wife of detained Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik, commended Beverly Hill, President of the Organization for Human Rights and Women’s Rights in the United States for raising voice against the widespread human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Mushaal Mallick, who is also the Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, in a statement on Monday, said that Beverly Hill, who through a letter to former US presidential candidate and newly elected Congress representative, Allred Collin not only drew her attention towards the rising HR violations but also asked to stop the US gun manufacturer Sig Sauer from selling automatic weapons to India.
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