Topic: Custodial torture
“They killed my son because we are Muslims”: UP family alleges police brutality drove Muslim youth to suicide
The family of 18-year-old Salmaan, a resident of Myuri Khurd village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly’s Bhuta area, has accused the local police of driving him to suicide through repeated harassment and physical assault.
Body of Kashmiri youth found in Kulgam after alleged Army custody, leaders demand probe
The body of a 22-year-old Kashmiri youth was recovered by residents of a village in Kulgam district on Sunday, triggering widespread outrage and serious allegations of custodial abuse.
Ex-head of Cow Protection Task Force in Nuh, cop notorious for harassing Muslims, arrested for custodial torture
On Saturday, the Haryana Police arrested Inspector Radhey Shyam, a suspended station house officer, on charges of custodial torture at the Palwal city police station.
Parbhani: Ambedkarite youth dies due to “shock following multiple injuries” in police custody, says forensic report
35-year-old law student and Ambedkarite activist, Somnath Vyankat Suryawanshi, who was arrested by Maharashtra police in connection with the Parbhani protest, died due to “shock following multiple injuries,” says the forensic department in Aurangabad.
‘Thank God they did not lose their lives’: CM calls for ‘transparent’ Army probe into torture of civilians at J&K Army camp
A day after the Army launched a probe into allegations of custodial torture of civilians during searches for a group of militants by troops in J&K’s Kishtwar district, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday called for a transparent probe by the Army.
Palestinian rights group calls for closure of ‘Israeli torture camps’
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has called for accountability for Israeli abuses against Palestinian detainees, saying recent testimony and evidence from Israeli detention centres “reveal a level of violence that resounds with the atrocities documented in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib”.
