Tag: #CivilRights

Kashmir Crisis: Aga Ruhullah Criticizes Security Forces for Torturing Individuals Labeled as OGWs

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Kashmir Crisis: Aga Ruhullah Criticizes Security Forces for Torturing Individuals Labeled as OGWs

Situation in Kashmir getting worse; “The security forces label these boys as OGWs, a term which has no place in the law or in the constitution, and on the pretext of that, they get license to torture those individuals,” Ruhullah Srinagar Feb 7: Member Parliament (MP) and National Conference leader Syed Aga Ruhullah Mehdi on Friday pointed fingers at security review meeting and said that killings were reported in Kashmir a day after a high level security meeting. Addressing media persons in Delhi, Ruhullah said that no one from the…

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Delhi LG approves Prosecution of Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri Professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain

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Delhi LG approves Prosecution of Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri Professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain

The case is related to provocative speeches allegedly made by the duo in 2010 Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has accorded sanction for the prosecution of author Arundhati Roy and a former Kashmiri professor in a 2010 case related to provocative speeches allegedly made at a conference here, Raj Niwas officials said on Tuesday. The FIR against Roy and former professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain was registered following the orders of the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi, they said. “LG V K Saxena noted that prima facie a case…

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