Human Rights Archives | Page 7 of 8 | Organizations for Minorities of India
Indian Journalist Warns Underground Church in India “At Par” With China
August 4, 2015 | AdminDr. Dayal discusses how his career as a journalist led to him becoming an activist after witnessing human rights violations of tribals, Muslims, Christians, and others. He says that, in 1997, “I came face to face with Christian persecution.”Read More
Protests Anticipated as Indian PM Modi Plans California Visit
July 24, 2015 | Admin“The Butcher of Gujarat in the USA is unsettling,” say NRI minorities
SAN JOSE, CA: July 25, 2015 — “Mr. Narendra Modi was deemed the Butcher of Gujarat after his state-sponsored genocide… killed thousands of Muslims,” warned activist Jada Bernard … Read More
Hunger-Striker Surat Singh Khalsa Rearrested Despite Worldwide Support
July 22, 2015 | Admin
Supporters call arrests “torture by the Brahmanical Indian State”
LUDHIANA, PUNJAB: July 22, 2015 — As a delegation of senior officials representing the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party in Punjab, India toured North America to woo diaspora … Read More
Editorial: What if we listened to Dr. Ambedkar?
July 21, 2015 | AdminOFMI advisor Pieter Friedrich presented the following remarks at a July 19 banquet hosted by the Begampura Educational and Cultural Society of Sacramento, CA.
Ladies and Gentlemen —
I am honored at the opportunity to speak in honor of Dr. … Read More
Editorial: An Apolitical Analysis of Indian Political Prisoners
July 20, 2015 | Admin“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.” — George Orwell
Political prisoner is a deviant, as per my observation. A political prisoner is jailed for “freely expressing” any disagreement, … Read More
Conference Challenges India’s “Dehumanizing” Belief System
July 15, 2015 | Admin
Speakers term Brahmanical caste system a “legal apartheid”
Stockton, CA: July 15, 2015 — When he took the stage at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA to speak to a diverse audience of Indian diaspora and concerned … Read More
Irom Sharmila’s Fiancé on Torture, AFSPA, and Surat Singh Khalsa
June 12, 2015 | AdminOFMI: This is Steve Macias with the Organization for Minorities of India, and today we have a very special guest, the fiancé of the longest held political prisoner in India today, who’s been called the participant of the world’s longest … Read More
Indian Student Group Banned for Criticizing PM Modi’s Beef Ban
June 1, 2015 | AdminSteve Macías, Organization for Minorities of India, interviews Prabha Karan for a closer look on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assault on the right to free speech in India.Read More
“My Life is in Danger,” Pleads American Citizen in India After Release From Jail Without Charges
May 5, 2015 | Admin
Son of hunger-striking Surat Singh Khalsa says he was “tortured multiple times” during two-month imprisonment
Ludhiana, Punjab, India: May 6, 2015 – A week after his April 27 release from a two-month imprisonment in Ludhiana Jail, U.S. citizen Ravinderjit … Read More
City of Stockton Proclamation Recognizes “Ongoing Impact” of 1984 Sikh Genocide on Indian Minorities
March 11, 2015 | AdminStockton Gurdwara, oldest Sikh-American institution in the USA, accepts proclamation
Stockton, CA, USA: Mar. 11, 2015 – A 30-year-old massacre of Sikhs by the government of India gained fresh attention in California on Tuesday when the City of Stockton, home … Read More