Amnesty International later mailed the report — titled “Tyranny of A ‘Lawless Law’: Detention without Charge or Trial under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act” — to reporters. Kashmir’s divisional commissioner, Baseer Ahmed Khan, denied the allegation that Amnesty had been barred from releasing a report. The report Amnesty made public on Wednesday has analysed the case studies of 210 detainees between 2012 and 2018. “The briefing (report) provides a pattern of abuse by the Jammu and Kashmir authorities. Even minors as young as 14 years have been detained under the PSA, Amnesty notes.

Source: The Telegraph June 13, 2019 02:15 UTC