This report summarizes an April 1, 2005 confidential briefing by the ICRC to the US Embassy in New Delhi in which the ICRC describes the torture of Kashmiri political prisoners and concludes that the Government of India condones torture and keeps the ICRC in legal limbo in India.

Topics: detention, torture, political prisoners, humanitarian access

Terms: ICRC, detention centers, prisoner abuse, electric shock, suspension from ceiling, roller, crushing, stretching, water-boarding, sexual torture, extrajudicial killing, Cargo, Indian forces rewarded for violations

This report describes the conduct of the 2004 Jammu and Kashmir parliamentary elections in the context of ongoing military occupation. The report finds that Kashmiris were coerced to vote by armed personnel and that even though coercion was less frequent compared to 2 years earlier, incidences were more common outside the city. 64% boycotted elections and 34% of the population voted. Kashmiri political leaders like Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Sayed Ali Geelani, Shahidul Islam, and Javed Mir were obstructed from addressing meetings--the police detained them or placed them under house arrest

Topics: monitoring and analysis of parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 2004

Terms: 2004 Jammu and Kashmir parliamentary elections, denial of political rights, denial of right to free and fair elections, denial of right to political self-determination, lack of democracy, denial of right to free expression, denial of right to free assembly, Rashtriya Rifles, Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act (AFSPA), Border Security Force (BSF), election rigging, voter fraud, voter intimidation, forcible voting, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

This statement (one of many over many years submitted to the UN Commission of Human Rights by International Economic Development, Inc. and the Humanitarian Law Project (a U.S. NGO working to protect human rights and promote the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law)) reprised violations of international law in Indian-Admnistered Jammu and Kashmir and accountability efforts at the UN while decrying the UN's failure to act on its commitments to the people of Kashmir.  It also urged the UN to undertake renewed efforts to bring about a plebiscite in IAJK and assess and address "the overwhelming numbers of humanitarian and human rights violations that have accumulated" in IAJK.

Topics: human rights in Kashmir

Terms: violations of human rights law, violations of humanitarian law, armed conflict, violations of Geneva Conventions, UN Security Council resolutions, failure to implement plebiscite, Indian state propaganda, religious discrimination, racism, victim-blaming, failure of international accountability, failure of international community, international impunity, colonialism, occupation, denial of right to self-determination, denial of justice, racial and religious profiling, right to self-determination, violation of international law, UN Security Council resolutions, risk of war

A written statement by International Education Development to the UN Commission on Human Rights on human rights violations in Kashmir and decrying the Commission's lack of action despite "well-documented, massive and flagrant violations of human rights and humanitarian law" in the Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir.

Topics: human rights and humanitarian law violations at the hands of the military forces in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, failure of international community, States criticizing victims, history of advocacy at UN, Indian reprisals, India-Pakistan conflict 

Terms: escalation of violations, UN-mandated plebiscite, UN Security Council resolutions, Security Council Commission, United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan (UNCIP), right to self-determination, UN Commission on Human Rights, siege, Geneva Conventions, Indian Army, Border Security Forces, Rashtriya Rifles, Special Operations Group, assassination, disappearances, murder, torture, rape, custodial deaths, racism, All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), use of force, Al Qaeda, stability, item 5

‍

Investigation aimed to ascertain the reality of the ceasefire declared by the government of India, more particularly to investigate the frequent allegations of human rights violations in the State, notwithstanding the truce; and lastly to seek the views of the people concerning the ongoing political process and their role or place in it.

Topics: Political background, migration, rights, killings, human shields, rape, custodial killings, fake encounters, torture, repression, civil society, political process.