• Categories

  • 1984
  • General
  • NHRC
  • Punjab
  • Uncategorized
• Search for:

• Archives

  • August 2008
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005
  • December 2004
  • October 2004
  • September 2004
  • August 2004
  • July 2004
  • June 2004
  • May 2004
  • April 2004
  • March 2004
  • February 2004
  • January 2004
  • December 2003
  • May 2003

Ensaaf’s blog is resuming after over a year’s hiatus. Stay tuned for coverage on Punjab human rights issues.

Here are some highlights from the past year:

In October 2007, Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch released a joint report, video testimonials, and photo essay. The report, Protecting the Killers, A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India, examines the challenges faced by victims and their relatives in pursuing legal avenues for accountability for the human rights abuses perpetrated by security forces. The report describes the near total failure of India’s judicial and state institutions to provide justice for victims’ families.

April 2008 marked the four year anniversary of Ensaaf. Some highlights in legal advocacy over the past 4 years include providing litigation support in the Punjab mass cremations case and the cases regarding the murder of human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra (the criminal case against six police officers and the High Court case filed against former police chief KPS Gill). All of this and more was reported in the latest newsletter by Ensaaf.

On November 21, 2007, Ensaaf met with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in Geneva, Switzerland, to present general allegations (pdf) against India for its role in perpetrating enforced disappearances in Punjab. The allegations, as well as 32 individual cases jointly submitted by Ensaaf, REDRESS, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, are currently under consideration by the Working Group and were transmitted to the government of India in April.

In its December newsletter, Ensaaf reported how a killer of activist Jaswant Singh Khalra has been scheming his way out of jail, despite receiving a life sentence. As of December, Jaspal Singh had been released from jail 36 times, and had also received 7 weeks of parole. Read more about the convictions of the police officers in the Khalra murder case.

In February 2007, Ensaaf and Human Rights watch published an op-ed in The Asian Age reported that in February 2007, discussing the cost of ignoring human rights violations as Punjabi citizens went to the polls to elect a new government.

Comments

• Blogroll

  • Ensaaf