World bodies ask India to stop unlawful use of force in the name of Covid

World bodies ask India to stop unlawful use of force in the name of Covid19 emergency.

In this regard, the International Commission of Jurists and the World Organization against Torture have issued a joint statement on Friday.

World bodies ask India to stop

They called on India to stop unlawful use of force in the name of Covid 19 emergency in the country.

The two international bodies highlighted a range of human rights violations, including severe restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, brutal repression of protest imposed in the name of the Covid-19 emergency.

The statement said the increasingly violent and brutal repression of dissent in India alarmed them.

Besides, they also lamented the arbitrary detention and harassment of activists and human rights defenders by the state in relation to their participation in peaceful protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens.

The statement said fabricated charges of sedition, murder, and terrorism under repressive anti-terror and national security laws have been filed against activists and human rights defenders participating in the protests.

Moreover, it called on India to take urgent steps to ensure that its people enjoy the rights to express dissent and to participate in peaceful protests without fear of being arrested, brutally beaten, tortured or killed.

GTV