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End
rights abuses in Kashmir, Amnesty tells India
Monday March 21, 2011 10:48:54 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Amnesty International has lashed out at India over alleged human
rights violations in terror-riven Jammu and Kashmir and asked it to
revoke a controversial law under which suspects are held in prison
"for years without trial".
A 70-page report released by the global rights watchdog Monday
focuses on the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), terming it
a "lawless law".
The report - the first on Jammu and Kashmir since 2000 - documents
how authorities are using the act to detain people for years at a
time, without trial, "depriving them of basic human rights otherwise
provided under Indian law".
"Estimates of the number detained under the PSA over the past two
decades range from 8,000-20,000," said the report.
The report was based on research conducted in May 2010 and
"subsequent analysis of government and legal documents relating to
over 600 individuals detained under the PSA between 2003 and 2010".
The controversial act empowers district magistrates to detain people
for up to two years for suspected offences ranging from anti-state
activities to timber smuggling.
"By using the PSA to incarcerate suspects without adequate evidence,
India has not only gravely violated their human rights but also
failed in its duty to charge and try such individuals and to punish
them if found guilty in a fair trial."
Jammu and Kashmir has since 1989 witnessed a bloody separatist war -
which India alleges is being sponsored by Pakistan and militant
organisations there - during which tens of thousands of people have
been killed.
"Amnesty International acknowledges the right, indeed the duty, of
the state to defend and protect its population from violence.
However, this must be done while respecting the human rights of all
concerned," the report said.
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