Torture | Free Press Kashmir

To get justice for Rizwan, family ready for exhumation and a legal battle

After Rizwan Pandit’s ‘custodial killing’, his family on Thursday addressed a hurriedly-conveyed presser where they detailed the chilling ‘torture’ and vowed to...

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Human Rights

International Federation for Human Rights publishes report detailing ‘key human rights issues of concern’ in Kashmir

Srinagar: Human rights organisation International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an amalgam of 184 organisations from 112 countries has published a briefing note...

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Conflict

From gun to stick: Mohammad Saeed’s walk to woe

As a hothead downtowner, Mohammad Saeed grew up as a diehard Mirwaiz family follower, who braced himself up for a ‘Sarhad Paar’...

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Crime

Male dog ‘raped, brutally tortured’ by four ‘inebriated’ men in Mumbai

Four men allegedly gang-raped and brutally tortured a male dog in Malwani area of Malad West in Mumbai on Saturday, according to a...

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News

Rohingyas will not be forcibly sent back to Myanmar: Bangladesh

Rohingya Muslims who have fled from Myanmar will not be forcibly repatriated, Bangladesh’s Rohingya Relief and Repatriation Commissioner has said, Al Jazeera reported....

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International

Human Rights Watch report accuses Palestinian Authority of ‘systematic arrests, torture’

Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a report published on Tuesday, condemned the “systematic arbitrary arrests and torture” by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in...

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News

Ex-Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to become next UN human rights chief: Report

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be the world body’s new human rights chief, five diplomats...

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News

SC to hear plea that alleges activist Talib Hussain being tortured in police custody

The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Wednesday alleging that Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua gang rape and...

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Conflict

JKLF accuses Police of torturing youth in custody

Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front in a statement, on Friday, said that Police stations have become ‘Nazi camps where Kashmiri youth are being...