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13 individuals, including a BJP worker, have been remanded to judicial custody until February 20 in the Bilkis Bano case, covering the murder of 14 family members and her gang-rape during the Gujarat pogroms against Muslims in 2002: The 13 accused would be produced before the special fast-track court judge S M Padhyay on February […]

Rakesh Sharma’s documentary on Gujarat after the 2002 pogroms against Muslims—Final Solution—won two awards at a Berlin international film festival.  Sharma’s film had been denied a screening at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), most likely because of its political nature.  Final Solution interviews survivors of Godhra and the Gujarat pogroms, as well as VHP […]

A special court in Gujarat has rejected the anticipatory bail application of three policemen in Gujarat, for their role in improperly investigating the murder of 14 Muslims, killed during the Gujarat pogroms against Muslims in early 2002: Fast-track court Judge H P Patel rejected the application on the grounds that applicants are “senior police officials” […]

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted its report to the Supreme Court on the exhumation of bodies related to the massacre of 14 Muslims during the Gujarat pogroms against Muslims in early 2002.  Bilkis Yakub Rasool, whose case we have been following, was gang-raped and witnessed the murder of these 14 people, including […]

After Indian troops killed protestors in Kashmir, demonstrating against the killing of five civilians allegedly used as human shields by the Indian Army in an encounter with militants, the government has agreed to order a probe. However, it remains to be seen how effective this probe will be.  In March 2000, 35 Sikhs were killed […]

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire and used teargas against demonstrators protesting the army’s alleged use of Kashmiri civilians as a human shield in a skirmish with militants: Local residents say the civilians who died were captured by troops from a village near Bandipora on Friday. They say the troops used them as human shields […]

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences conducted an inventory of the materials unearthed from a site in Gujarat by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), investigating the rape of Bilkis Rasool and the murder of 14 Muslims, some of whom were also raped: Bones, bone fragments and items of clothing and footwear exhumed from […]

For the last several weeks, we have followed developments in the case of Bilkis Yaqoob Rasul, a young woman who was gang-raped during the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in spring 2002, and watched the assailants kill another 14 members of her family, including her 3-year old daughter, two sisters, mother, and two brothers. Two years […]

On OpenDemocracy.org, Swedish activist America Vera-Zavala has written about experiences of women at the World Social Forum, which concluded last week in Bombay.  She begins her article with women survivors of the massacre in Gujarat, speaking at the panel “Religious Fundamentalism, Communalism, Casteism and Racism – Actually a Globalisation Agenda:” “After the rape they made […]

In a follow up to the gang rape case, originating from the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat during spring 2002, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) secured another week of custody of the 12 accused.  One of the accused is the former BJP secretary from Dahod district: The CBI told the court that during the […]

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