Marriage out of sight for Kashmir’s pellet gun victims
Losing their eyesight is the start of their problems SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
Photo: AFP
Listen to the story
Losing your eyesight can be traumatic enough, but it can also result in losing your prospective spouse.
Twenty-six-year-old Manzoor Ahmad Dar hides that he is blind in one eye because his long-term girlfriend left him over it in 2019. Today, when families visit his home in Indian Occupied Kashmirâs Pulwama district to verify his background, he does not tell them that his vision is impaired.
Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools
December 10, 2020
Share
Share
The world must act urgently to prohibit the global trade in equipment designed to inflict excruciating pain and injury, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said today, ahead of a high-level UN meeting on the ‘torture trade’. In a new report,
“More than three decades after torture was outlawed internationally, people continue to be tortured, often to death, in prisons and detention centers all over the world. It is nonsensical to ban torture while allowing the trade in sinister equipment specifically designed for torture, like spiked batons and leg irons, to continue,” said Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International’s Head of Business, Security and Human Rights.