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Armed Forces Special Powers Act

Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Armed Forces Special Powers Act
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Kashmir, India

Kashmir, India
PERSON
New Delhi

New Delhi
PLACE
Omar Abdullah

Omar Abdullah
PERSON
Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party
ORGANIZATION
Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Chanu Sharmila
PERSON
Afzal Guru

Afzal Guru
PERSON
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference

Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
ORGANIZATION
GALLERY.
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An Indian policeman, left and a supporter stand behind Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 12 years to protest an Indian law that suspends many human rights protections in areas of conflict, speaks during a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 4, 2013. Sharmila who has been force fed through a tube by authorities was charged Monday with attempted suicide in a case likely to bring major attention to her quiet protest in the tiny northeastern state of Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Social activist from Manipur, Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast for 12 years demanding the repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), arrives at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on March 3, 2013. Sharmila, who launched her fast unto death in 2000 in Manipur, is due to appear in a Delhi court under the IPC 309 - attempt to commit suicide - for fasting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on a previous occasion. The jailed activist is fed through her nose in the security ward of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Imphal.
A placard against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is pictured during a sit-in demonstration on World Human Rights Day in New Delhi on December 10, 2012. The activists demonstrated to call attention to what they say is gross human rights violations by Indian troops in Kashmir. At least 47,000 people have died as a result of the insurgency in highly militarised Indian Kashmir, according to official count with seperatists putting the toll twice as high.
An Indian policeman, left and a supporter stand behind Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 12 years to protest an Indian law that suspends many human rights protections in areas of conflict, speaks during a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 4, 2013. Sharmila who has been force fed through a tube by authorities was charged Monday with attempted suicide in a case likely to bring major attention to her quiet protest in the tiny northeastern state of Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
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