Tuesday, March 22, 2011


Amnesty attacks India over IHK detentions

NEW DELHI: Rights group Amnesty International attacked a draconian Indian law on Monday which it said had been used to detain up to 20,000 people without trial in Indian-held Kashmir.

Amnesty urged India to scrap the Public Safety Act that allows police to detain a person up to two years without charge or trial if he or she is deemed a threat to the state. “Kashmir authorities are using PSA detentions as a revolving door to keep people they can’t or won’t convict through proper legal channels locked up and out of the way,” said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty’s Asia-Pacific director.

A new report from the group said up to 20,000 people had been held under the law since the start of an fight against Indian occupation in 1989. India detained hundreds of people each year without charge or trial in order to “keep them out of circulation”, it said. agencies

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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