UNITED NATIONS
\nA United Nations human rights expert has accused the Indian government of tacitly allowing incitement to violence against Muslims in a report that documents the state-driven and tolerated hatred, discrimination and violence against minorities in India.
\nThe UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmad Shaheed, who presented the report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, also denounced the wide-ranging Indian atrocities in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
\nStung by the damning report on \u2018rights of religious or belief minorities in situations of insecurity and conflict\u2019, India rejected the UN expert\u2019s findings, without offering any substantive arguments.
\nOn his part, Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN Offices in Geneva, Ambassador Khalil Hashmi, echoed the report\u2019s references about human rights situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir and called on the UN expert to continue monitoring and reporting on the situation, especially the Kashmiri people\u2019s inalienable right to self-determination. .
\nIn his report, Special Rapporteur Shaheed said that the Indian authorities had failed to address impunity for human rights violations in Kashmir \u2013 including extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances and rape \u2013 and have enacted special laws to impede accountability and obstruct victims\u2019 access to remedies.
\nIn fact, he wrote that India had increased restrictions on movements of the predominantly Muslim Kashmiri population, already under strict lockdown since the 2019 revocation of Kashmir\u2019s special autonomous status, and sent more troops.
\n\u201cThese measures, combined with Internet shutdowns, have hampered Kashmiris\u2019 ability to protect themselves from the virus or receive outside help,\u201d the special rapporteur said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS A United Nations human rights expert has accused the Indian government of tacitly allowing incitement to violence against Muslims in a report that documents the state-driven and tolerated hatred, discrimination and violence against minorities in India. The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmad Shaheed, who presented the report to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n