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Notable Achievements

Five Officers Convicted. Ensaaf provided key litigation support in the conviction of 5 officers for Jaswant Singh Khalra's abduction and murder.
International Experts Engaged. Ensaaf partnered with the Nobel-prize winning organization Physicians for Human Rights on a torture and trauma study.
Recognized as a Ground-breaking Organization. Ensaaf Co-Founders received the Echoing Green fellowship award in 2006.

Articles & Letters
Reports: Human Rights Watch
Reports & Statements: Amnesty International
Reports: US State Department
Other Reports
UN Documents on Punjab

Articles & Letters

CHRGJ Letter to The Hon. Dr Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, International and Domestic Law Standards Governing Applications for Relief from Extradition Under the Convention Against Torture (case of Kulvir Singh Barapind) (Sept. 2005) (pdf, 1.6 MB)
Twenty Years Later: Recent Reports Highlight the Continuing Struggle for Sikh Human Rights, Jasmine Marwaha, Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2005)
India's Sikhs: Waiting for Justice, Barbara Crossette, World Policy Journal (Summer 2004) (PDF)
Amicus Brief by Harvard Law Student Advocates and Human Rights Watch (Dec. 2003)
REDRESS, Letter to Chief Constable and Press Release, Indo-UK police conference (Sept. 2003)
A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India, Jaskaran Kaur, Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2002)
Police Torture in Punjab, India: An Extended Survey, Ami Laws and Vincent Iacopino, Health and Human Rights (pdf)

Reports: Human Rights Watch

Joint report with Ensaaf, Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India (Ensaaf and Human Rights Watch, October 2007)
Injustice Cost Votes in Punjab Polls, by Jasmine Marwaha and Meenakshi Ganguly
India: Don't Torture Sikh Activist Extradited by U.S. (Kulvir Singh Barapind)
India: Draconian Response to Naxalite Violence (References KPS Gill)
Letter to National Human Rights Commission on Mass Cremations Case
Other Screams of Terror, by Meenakshi Ganguly
Dead End in Punjab, by Brad Adams
India: Prosecute Killers of Sikhs (1984 Pogroms)
Brief to Indian National Human Rights Commission (with HLS Advocates) (pdf)
Dead Silence: The Legacy of Abuses in Punjab (with PHR) (pdf)
Punjab in Crisis: Human Rights in India (pdf)
India: Justice Eludes Families of the “Disappeared” in Punjab

Reports: Amnesty International

Reports

Break the Cycle of Impunity and Torture in Punjab, January 2003
A Trial of Unlawful Killings in Jammu and Kashmir: Chithisinghpora and its Aftermath, June 2000
Defending Human Rights in India, April 2000
A Vital Opportunity to End Impunity in Punjab, August 1999
A Mockery of Justice: The “disappearance” of Jaswant Singh Khalra, April 1998
Harjit Singh: In Continuing Pursuit of Justice, January 1996
Determining the Fate of the “Disappeared” in Punjab, October 1995
Punjab Police: Beyond the Bounds of the Law, April 1995
Harjit Singh: A Case Study of “Disappearance" and Impunity, March 1995
Reaction to the Government Response to Amnesty International's Report on “Disappearances” and Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, June 1994
“An unnatural fate”: Disappearances and Impunity in the Indian States of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, December 1993
Three Reports of Deaths in Custody and "Disappearances" in Punjab, March 1993
Human Rights Violations in Punjab: Use and Abuse of the Law, May 1991

Public Statements

Sikh Massacre Victims Await Justice in India, 25 Years On, April 2009
India: Victims of anti-Sikh riots face further delays, August 2005
India: Punjab - Twenty years on impunity continues, October 2004
AI membership expresses solidarity to the families of the disappeared in Punjab, February 2003
India: Day of the “disappeared”—still no justice for the victims, August 2001
Proposed amnesty for security personnel must be rejected, August 2001
State continues to obstruct justice in Punjab, April 2001
Arrest of witness points to continuing police harassment, September 2000
Will past human rights violations in Punjab remain forgotten? August 1999

Reports: US State Department

Reports: Other

1984 Sikhs' Kristallnacht (Parvinder Singh, May 2009) (pdf, 3 MB)
Physicians for Human Rights and Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture Report Submitted to National Human Rights Commission
Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab (pdf, 5 MB)

UN Documents on Punjab