Prison Dairies
Former inmates who served in various jails across Jammu and Kashmir, and the lawyers who visited them, reveal an awful tale of official apathy...
The Kot Bhalwal Keepsaker
As India and Pakistan debate security in jails after the murder of Sarabjit Singh and Sanaullah Ranjay, Shams Irfan meets some of the families...
Caught on Camera
An amateur video showing J&K policemen stripping and assaulting two teenage boys inside a police station in north Kashmir went viral on social networking...
A Victim of Fate
In the aftermath of Afzal Guru’s hanging, a 13-year-old boy found himself in the middle of a protest and almost lost his life. Surviving...
Tragic Tales
Following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru, police and paramilitary forces have resorted to extreme use of pellet guns to deal...
Death of an Activist
A human rights activist by heart, a scholar by profession and a social worker by conscience, very few people must know that Tahir had...
Vanished In Darkness
Two residents of a Batamaloo neighborhood in Srinagar with similar names were picked up by forces of 22 RR and subjected to enforced disappearance...
Death Of A Carpenter
Taken as a human shield, Ali remained buried under the rubble of a house and burnt brutally in the fire caused by mortar shelling...
Gawkadal A Massacre, A Case
It took 22 years for the State Human Rights Commission to order a formal inquiry into Gawkadal massacre in which scores of harmless people...
Pulwama Firing: Suhail Is Losing His Memory
Saima Bhat
Srinagar
Suhail Ahmad Malik, 15, a class 9th student doesn’t remember what exactly happened with him on December 28, 2012 when forces opened fire...
Waiting For Justice
A brave widow from J&K’s summer capital, Srinagar, has been fighting against all odds for 19 years to get justice for her husband who...
Whose “Daminis” Are They?
While the civil society in India is mourning, and rightly so, the horrible rape and murder of a girl in Delhi, it has conveniently...
Grave Document
Being first of its kind, a report on the alleged human rights violations in J&K, since the onset of militancy here, has indicted personnel,...
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Living a Tragedy
Twenty years ago, a painter disappeared mysteriously in Srinagar. His traumatized wife went from police to judiciary to jails to seek answers but no...
