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This week, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the central government and the Gujarat government in response to a petition filed by Teesta Setalvad, secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace.  Setalvad’s petition challenged the appointment of the former Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, P.C. Pandey, as Additional Director of CBI: The […]

Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times has an article on the Indian Army’s use of Kashmiri villagers as human shields.  It describes the experiences of one family from Chattibandi, whose members were abducted and used as human shields by the Army: “They forced my sons to go with them and told me, ‘Baba, don’t worry. They will […]

Manoj Mitta discusses stark evidence demonstrating that the Gujarat Government has misled the Supreme Court about the status of the accused and high court orders in cases stemming from the 2002 pogroms against Muslims. The Gujarat Government is supposed to prosecute the perpetrators of the carnage, but lawyers, activists, and the Supreme Court have demonstrated […]

In early March, AWAAZ: South Asia Watch Limited (ASAW) presented a report on the funding of Sangh organizations by British charities.  The 80-page report In Bad Faith? British Charity and Hindu Extremism documented the use of millions of British pounds, collected from the public allegedly for disaster relief after the Gujarat earthquake and Orissa cyclone, […]

The Telegraph (India) reports that “The BJP is working on a propaganda coup by trying to rope in a section of Muslim leaders from Gujarat.” Some of the prominent Muslims in Gujarat are trying to come to some kind of arrangements with the BJP for various reasons, and the BJP is exploiting the situation to […]

Amnesty International has issued a press release on the second anniversary of the Gujarat pogroms against Muslims: “Two years after the massacres took place, most of the victims are still demanding justice, but they are not being heard,” Amnesty International said. “Despite the efforts of the human rights community and the scrutiny of the Supreme […]

A few udpates on the cases and aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims: Zahira Sheik’s case, popularly known as the Best Bakery case, was adjourned by the Supreme Court.  Citizens for Justice and Peace had filed a special leave petition to have the case heard outside Gujarat.  Zahira, a teenager, made international headlines […]

Breaking their silence of two years, 13 witnesses gave evidence in the Bilkis Bano case, stemming from the massacre of 14 Muslims during the Gujarat pogroms of 2002.  The witnesses, all from the village where the 14 people were killed, were escorted to Mumbai to give their testimony: A CBI official, who did not want […]

In his powerful editorial in the Hindustan Times, Flash in the pan?, Praful Bidwai describes the diminishing possibilities for justice for the victims of the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in 2002.  Discussing the CBI’s exhumation of bodies in the Bilkis Bano case, Bidwai writes: It now turns out the police buried the bodies and poured […]

In Kashmir today, people protested the alleged custodial death of a Kashmiri man Abdul Rashid Bhat: Furious over the death of one Abdul Rashid Bhat, protestors today blocked the national highway at Narbal on the outskirts of the city. Bhat was allegedly picked up by a joint team of Special Operations Group (SOG) and some […]

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