The U.N. has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their home country's heightened surveillance of citizens for possession of outside information and subsequent public trials, including execution by firing squad.
The US has urged China to take immediate action to end its ongoing repression of Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.
"We have seen the statement made by the Spokesperson of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on specific incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. The statement makes baseless and unfounded allegations against law enforcement authorities and security forces of India," MEA spokesman Arindam Bagchi said
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has received at least one case of a Pakistani national, who disappeared from PoK, and a permanent resident of Gilgit-Baltistan, who disappeared from Pakistan.
An updated report of the UN OHCHR on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir in 13 months, reiterates its accusations about the rising human rights violations and deaths of civilians between May 2018 and April 2019.
