Eight paramilitary soldiers from India’s Border Security Force (BSF) have been suspended after they were filmed assaulting a man, officials say.
The incident, which took place on the border with Bangladesh in West Bengal state, has caused an uproar.
A video, shot on mobile phone and shown by some TV channels, shows the soldiers stripping and assaulting a suspected cattle smuggler in Murshidabad.
FREMONT, CA – In partnership with REDRESS, the Human rights advocate group Ensaaf, submitted a report to UN’s Universal Periodic Review on mass cremations, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings carried out in Punjab, India during the 1980s and 1990s.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process, under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, which involves a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. India’s first review was conducted in 2008. During that review, States encouraged India to ratify the UN Convention on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) yesterday condemned and expressed its deep concern on the rise of incidents of enforced disappearances and secret killings in the country.
In a press statement SAHR said enforced disappearance and subsequent killings of the victims is the worst form of violation of human rights.
The international rights body termed it frustrating that the government fails to give acceptable explanations when witnesses and victims’ family members pointed their fingers at the law enforcement agencies.
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SRINAGAR, (SANA): The Hong Kong-based human rights organisation, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has urged India to withdraw draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from occupied Kashmir.
The Asia Human Rights Commission in its statement said that the alarming number of human rights abuses committed by the Indian army under AFSPA was depressing proof to the draconian nature of this law.
“Many lives lost already…to this the Act underscores the non-compatibility of this law to the notion of democracy,” the statement added.
South Asians for Human Rights welcomes the latest developments in the delegation from Afghanistan to the Bonn Conference, in increasing the role of women in the delegation.