Times of Islamabad

Human Rights Watch strongly snub Indian government over Occupied Kashmir lockdown

Human Rights Watch strongly snub Indian government over Occupied Kashmir lockdown

ISLAMABAD – The World Rights Body, Human Rights Watch has said that Indiais failing on Kashmiri human rights. South Asia Director of the Boday,Meenakshi Ganguly in a statement said that occupied Kashmir had been undera lockdown for five months.

She said deplored that Police admitted at least 144 children had beendetained, and now the chief of defense staff General Bipin Rawat has spokenof putting children in “deradicalization camps.

The HRW official said,the government is so fearful of criticism and dissentthat it curtailed Kashmiris’ ability to share news of births or deaths,call their doctors, order supplies, research term papers, file taxes, andtrade apples and walnut and blocked phone lines and access to the internet.

Meenakshi Ganguli said the Indian authorities have sought to justify theirrights violations on the grounds of national security.