Human Rights in Punjab

On World Human Rights Day, more than five hundred people marched in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir. More than two hundred protesters, representing a faction of the main separatist All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), were taken into custody by police.

The main procession included a large number of women carrying pictures of a 10-year-old girl they say was raped by an officer of the Indian army in the border town of Handwara last month.

Prominent leaders of the APHC Geelani faction, Sheikh Aziz, Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi and Nayeem Khan, were among those taken into custody.  

The chairman of Geelani faction, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and head of the Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Shah, were kept under house arrest from Friday morning.

Police also held sixty protesters earlier during a march against human rights violations by Indian forces.

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