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NEW YORK, (SANA): The international organization for human rights “human Right Watch” told the Indian government to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). AFSPA is against the international rights for human being.

Director Human Right Watch Brad Adams in a statement said that there is broad recognition in India that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act should be repealed because it has led to so many abuses, adding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should overrule the army and keep his promise to abolish this abusive law.

NEW YORK (US): The New York-based international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch has appealed to India to revoke the draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, as it violated India’s obligations under international human rights laws, reports KMS.

The Asia Director of the Human Rights Watch, Brad Adams said in a statement that the Indian army supported the Armed Forces Special Powers Act because of the immunity it provided to the soldiers who committed serious abuses.  He maintained that India was bound to give people their right to life and protection from arbitrary arrests, torture and other forms of ill treatment.

Where there is HR Violation there is RTI application LAW BY DR RAJA MUZAFFAR BHAT The violation of Human Rights has been a matter of great concern in Jammu & Kashmir for nearly two decades now. With respect to…

New Delhi: Justice Markandey Katju, who last month retired from Supreme Court and now has been appointed chairman of Press Council of India, has strongly condemned both media and police for painting the picture of Muslims as bomb throwers. Without mincing words he said Indian police is not trained for forensic investigations and so terror cases remain unresolved.

He criticized the media for jumping to the conclusions within a few hours of bomb blasts merely on the basis of e-mails or messages sent on mobiles. “ﾅthe tendency is to brand all Muslims in the country as terrorists and bomb throwers,” Hindustan Times quoted him as saying on 10th Oct. 2011.

By Giles Hewitt

NEW DELHI — India rolled out the red carpet Friday for Myanmar President Thein Sein, on a visit that followed his government’s release of 200 political detainees — the latest in a series of reformist moves.

The former general, who arrived in India on Wednesday and spent two days touring Buddhist pilgrimage sites, was given a full state welcome in New Delhi for the official leg of his three-day trip.

He then began a round of extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The visit coincided with Myanmar’s release on Wednesday of nearly 200 political prisoners, in another tentative sign of change in the authoritarian state after decades of military rule and repression.

Traditional dress for men in Myanmar combines an Indian-influenced sarong with a Chinese-style coat — fitting, perhaps, for a nation trying to balance ties with two giant neighbours as it looks outwards and relaxes decades of tightly buttoned rule.
Wedged between India to its west and China to its east, Myanmar will need to work hard on that balancing act as its military-backed government heads down the path of political reform to end the nation’s pariah status and revive its economy.

By Sana Altaf

SRINAGAR, India, Oct 10, 2011 (IPS) – “Is Afzal Guru really the person that so many Indians supposedly want dead? Or are they taking out their frustrations on an easy target?” asked Human Rights Watch, referring to the death sentence handed down to the Kashmiri man who was convicted of conspiracy in the 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament.
“For many, Afzal bears the burden of representing all those who dare to oppose Indian rule in restive parts of the country, because the attack on Parliament was an attack on India,” said the statement by Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia researcher for global rights watchdog HRW.
“Conversely, many Kashmiris would say that Afzal is a freedom fighter, planning an attempt at the symbol of Indian oppression,” adds the statement, titled ‘Life, Not Death: Why Afzal Mustn’t Hang’. “Both views are flawed. For this multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural state to survive, Indians have to believe in equal justice for all. And in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, there has been consistent failure to deliver on this promise.”