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Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952–1995) was a prominent Sikh human rights activist. He garnered global attention for his research concerning 25,000 illegal killings and cremations involving the Punjab police , and that the police had even killed about 2,000 police officers who refused to cooperate.
In 1995, the Punjab Police abducted, tortured, and murdered human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra for his work in uncovering thousands of disappearances, unlawful killings, and secret cremations of Sikhs perpetrated by the Punjab Police.
Jaswant Singh Khalra was a human rights activist who was taken into custody by Punjab Police on 6 September 1995. Human Rights Watch reported that an 11 September 1995 writ of habeas corpus from the Supreme Court was presented to Gill, and officials denied that police had detained him.
Sep 1, 2020 · Jaswant Singh Khalra. September 1995 witnessed the enforced disappearance and murder of Jaswant Singh Khalra, the champion of Punjab’s “disappeared.” His wife and human rights defender,...
Shaheed Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952-1995) was a human rights defender who was born in Khalra village of Amritsar district. He was a bank employee in Amritsar during the 1980's.
Sep 7, 2013 · Jaswant Singh Khalra led the campaign against Human Rights abuses in Punjab and fought against death threats and intimidation from the authorities to achieve justice for those who had been ill served.
We reflect here on his work, his death his legacy and how the uproar over his abduction caused ripples in Canada. Jaswant Singh Khalra's Abduction & Murder. On this day in 1995, S. Khalra was abducted from his home in Amritsar, Punjab by plain clothes police officers from the Tarn Taran district.
Jan 26, 2009 · Jaswant Singh Khalra begins his speech with a moving fable about the struggle of truth and light against expanding darkness. He recounts how he traced the fate of many disappeared Sikhs to Amritsar’s municipal cremation grounds.
Sep 5, 2020 · 25 years after he blew the whistle on forced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in Punjab that eventually led to his own forced disappearence and murder, Jaswant Singh Khalra is yet to get the credit due to him.
The CCDP and its agenda have their origin in the work done by Jaswant Singh Khalra, the general secretary of the Akali Dal’s human rights wing. In the year 1995, Khalra worked to initiate the public interest litigation on what has come to be known as the matter of police abductions leading to secret cremations in Punjab.
