{"id":3967,"date":"2022-03-03T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2022-03-03T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:07:39","slug":"us-concerned-over-human-rights-abuses-detention-of-journalists-in-kashmir-top-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/us-concerned-over-human-rights-abuses-detention-of-journalists-in-kashmir-top-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"US Concerned Over Human Rights Abuses, Detention of Journalists in Kashmir: Top Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cAcross the country we are closely monitoring reports of discrimination against the Muslim communities and other religious minority groups.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York, March 3 (AsiaFreePress):\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The new Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday said the US was concerned about human rights challenges, including the lack of State Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and reports of ongoing human rights abuses and detention of prominent journalists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have not seen the holding of Legislative Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. We have not seen free movement of journalists. We\u2019ve seen the detention in fact of some prominent journalists in the Kashmir valley,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s discrimination against its Muslim minority was also raised, to which Lu replied, \u201cAcross the country we are closely monitoring reports of discrimination against the Muslim communities and other religious minority groups.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While talking about India\u2019s claims on cross border infiltration, Lu said cross-border insurgency has really gone down over two years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, across the country, we are closely monitoring reports of discrimination against Muslim communities and other religious minority groups as well as limits on free speech and NGOs. It is critical that India\u2019s partners speak up when we witness troubling events, but we also support India\u2019s democratic institutions which are the country\u2019s key defence against the erosion of human rights,\u201d he said during his opening remarks, adding that there was \u201cgrowing strategic convergence\u201d between the two countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the security partnership, Mr. Lu pushed back against the notion that the security aspect of the Quad had been diluted relative to Trump administration days. His characterisations of the security aspect of both the bilateral partnership and the Quad had a clear \u201ccountering China\u201d element to them, even if only because he was asked specific questions on whether and how China was being adequately countered.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Kashmir, Lu said there was \u201ctroubling remaining work\u201d and Assembly elections had not been held and prominent journalists were detained.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have not seen the holding of Legislative Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. We have not seen free movement of journalists. We\u2019ve seen the detention in fact of some prominent journalists in the Kashmir valley, \u201c he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAcross the country we are closely monitoring reports of discrimination against the Muslim communities and other religious minority groups.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 New York, March 3 (AsiaFreePress):\u2013\u00a0The new Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday said the US was concerned about human rights challenges, including the lack [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,396,46,2],"tags":[2266,2362,2361,64,350,832,63,175,69,924],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-latest","category-law","category-news","tag-censorship","tag-detentions","tag-human-rights-abuses","tag-india","tag-indian-occupied-kashmir","tag-journalism","tag-kashmir","tag-media","tag-psa","tag-uapa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}