{"id":109,"date":"2005-12-09T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/12\/09\/international-human-rights-day-open-"},"modified":"2005-12-09T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T01:55:46","slug":"international-human-rights-day-open-letter-to-chief-minister-of-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/12\/09\/international-human-rights-day-open-letter-to-chief-minister-of-pun\/","title":{"rendered":"International Human Rights Day: Open Letter to Chief Minister of Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a582'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">On December 10, International Human Rights Day, ENSAAF sent an <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ensaaf.org\/CM-letter.htm\">open letter<\/A> to the Chief Minister of Punjab outlining critical human rights issues that must be made a priority for the government in protecting human rights in Punjab.&nbsp;The ENSAAF letter addresses the protection and promotion of perpetrators, prosecution sanction, continuing custodial torture and death in Punjab, application of lapsed emergency legislation,&nbsp;charging KPS Gill in the murder of human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra, and the inquiry report on the extrajudicial execution of Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaonke. <\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 10, International Human Rights Day, ENSAAF sent an open letter to the Chief Minister of Punjab outlining critical human rights issues that must be made a priority for the government in protecting human rights in Punjab.&nbsp;The ENSAAF letter addresses the protection and promotion of perpetrators, prosecution sanction, continuing custodial torture and death in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}