NEW DELHI — Police officers allegedly tortured 21 Muslim men during an investigation into a series of bombings in southern India, an international rights group said Tuesday, calling for the officers to be prosecuted.
Bomb attacks in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state, in May and August last year killed more than 50 people. At the time police blamed Islamic militants and rounded up more than 100 Muslim men.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said that while most were released, at least 21 were held for long periods and allegedly tortured while under detention.
"The detainees were stripped, hung upside down, severely beaten, subjected to electric shocks, and otherwise ill-treated," the group said in a statement. "They were also threatened with the torture of their relatives, particularly female relatives."
The rights group said evidence of the torture was gathered from the testimony of the men and the findings of the state Minorities Commission that concluded that several of them sustained injuries while in custody.
So far no action has been taken against the officers.
The state's chief minister said they would examine the charges.
"Whatever had to be done has been done by the police. If there were any excesses on the part of the police, we will definitely look into it," Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said.
Human Rights Watch said it was not an isolated incident.
"Over and over again, the police response to terrible bombings has been to round up people, simply because they happen to be Muslim, and to torture them in the hope of securing information or confessions," said Meenakshi Ganguly, of the group's South Asian office.
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some of these men actually had their beards PLUCKED OUT- not shaved, PLUCKED hair by hair!

no wonder there's so much anger at the islamophobic nature of indian "anti-terror" operations. more and more cases of innocent muslim men being framed by indian police and tortured mercilessly are coming out.

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Communists acting to gain muslim votevank nothig else......

and even if they are tortured i think they deserve that... killing thousands of innocent people and children... they deserve it..... ( we have not forgoten the bombings all over the India which killed thosands of innocent Indians )

these communists are double faced dogs... When a Islamic jehadi terrorist organisation does a bomb blast in India ko kill hundreds of innocent these communists shout that a terrorist has no religion but when police captures these terrorists these communists shout that this much " MUSLIM " man tortured... I really hate them...... Doing that kind of politice just for votebank

Are you trying to say that Indian Muslims are not Indian? are you trying to give excuses to torture? are you t rying to justify torture on muslims?

of course lovish is trying to justify torture. the report makes it clear that none of these men were guilty of anything. but lovish supports their being electrocuted, hung upside down and their beards plucked because theyre muslims which in lovish's mind always means terrorist.

lovish also confuses Human Rights Watch with "communists". apparently HRW is running in elections in india. :LOL:

u r a confuced person rabins... i suggest you to have a real checkup from doctor... sitting at Internet for thatmuch time has really affected your mind...


U kow nothing about the difference betwen humans and terrorists...

Terrorists are not humans... they are wolf's... they cut humans like cabbage....

and these human rights group are just to showoff.., in reality communists are the real ones behind them...

This Meenakshi Ganguly is a bengali and a member of CPM...

If terrorists are tortured then they had deserved it...... Police has to do that to revel the secrets.....

we have lost thosands in terror attacks and we have enough mind on how to tackle these terrorists no.... we are not advising you on how to tackle terrorists in Tribal areas... ur police direct kills them throught missile attacks and not once cnfirms that how many were terrorists and how many were innocent... at least we have enough humanity to not to do anything like that otherwise these 21 mens would have been dead by now with the terrorist tag on their head....

There is a old say in Hindi " Ulta Chor Kotwal to datte " and ur case rabins is just the same...

hehe. yeah, telling the truth is a sign of being "disturbed". be careful with your personal attacks lovish. you will earn further infractions the more you make them.

your gibberish is irrelevant. none of these men were convicted of anything- your calling them terrorists simply because they are muslims shows your intolerance and prejudice, nothing else. your wild theories are always entertaining.

actually, there have been well known incidents of police killing muslims in fake "encounters" and framing them for terrorism in india. as for using excessive force, how does india deal with maniour, mizoram, meghalaya etc? throigh hugs and kisses? the armed forces special powers act in manipur allows indian soldiers to kill withoyt being charged. dont make me laugh by taking on this absurd "noble" position. nobody buys it.

hehe. yeah ulta chor kotwaal ko daantay. you have been defending the bajrang dal and VHP etc and are calling innocent men terrorists in this thread and simultaneously pretending to teach others morality and rationality.