Blind to Justice: Excessive Use of Force and Attacks on Health Care in Jammu and Kashmir, India

In this report, Physicians for Human Rights describes the excessive and indiscriminate use of force against protesters by Indian state police and Central Reserve Police Forces with weapons misleadingly represented as “less than lethal.” While Indian authorities claimed that the use of these weapons was meant to reduce the potential for injuries or fatalities, PHR researchers found that their use had in fact caused serious injury and death.
Source: PHR Reports - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news