Within the last month it has come to light that a woman has been arrested and held under anti-terrorism laws. While in prison, she has been denied the right to wear her religious clothing and subjected to lie detector tests in an effort to establish her guilt. It seems that this has proven unfruitful as the police have then resorted to techniques of narco-analysis perfected by the regimes of Hitler and Stalin.
Latest articles covering the media's neglect of plight of the Hindu Kashmiris. Also reporting on the Jammu peoples movement against injustice and the unequal treatment of Hindus.
Each year the United Kingdom is visited by a number of holy men from India who come to teach the Hindu messages of truth, yoga, meditation and tolerance. Amongst this stream of selfless workers and myriads of Swamis and Gurus there is the occasional figure which casts a shadow of apprehension.
HHR condemns the brutal pre-planned murder of Swami Laxmananada Saraswati and four other innocents in the eastern Indian state of Orissa on the 23rd August 2008. The Swami, a well known social activist working for the upliftment of the deprived and dispossessed for the past 40 years was cut down in a maelstrom of AK-47 bullets whilst celebrating the Hindu festival of Janamastmi at an orphanage for girls.
Neo-Nazis are marching through the largest immigrant district in Berlin - Neukoelln on 23rd August 2008, targeting their venom at the site of a new Hindu temple. They claim that the symbolism on the new Hindu shrine attacks 'German' culture, because the ancient Hindu emblem of the swastika will be used.
It is an irony of the most loopy proportions that ignores the fact that the swastika is an ancient Hindu symbol which was hijacked by the Nazi Party as its' official emblem in 1919 ...
In 2007, Malaysia will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Independence from British rule. But we wonder how much the Hindu community in Malaysia will be celebrating? The increasing destruction, desecration and removal of Hindu temples in Malaysia has highlighted an ugly side.
India has recently revived the idea of having the Sethusamudram canal built between itself and Sri Lanka. This means digging a big hole through the Rama Setu Bridge and effectively destroying it.
Hindu Human Rights is concerned by the growing intolerance of the right wing Christian elements in the West which has been increasingly targeting Hindus and Hinduism in recent years. The latest incident where a yoga instructor was banned from.
The push for a so called Hindu school in Harrow by the I Foundation has been paraded as the government's commitment to faith schools for all communities. Just as there have been long established Catholic, Church of England and Jewish schools, and more recently provision for Muslim and Sikh state funded schools, so then under this policy, Hindus will also be "benefiting".
It is unfortunate that the Christian Solidarity World- wide (CSW) used the bicentennial anniversary of the abolition of slavery to pursue its own agenda and renew its vilification of all things Hindu.
Hindu Human Rights condemns the treatment faced by Dalit Hindus by the bigoted and narrow-minded administration of the Jagannath Temple in Keradagad in Orissa. Four Dalit Hindu women were allegedly assaulted following their entry into the premises by so-called "higher-caste" individuals.
It is with great concern that Hindu Human Rights reports an increasingly common attack on a religious minority here in the UK. In Glastonbury, a sacred site for mystical Pagan traditions, the town was taken back to medieval times when Christian extremists took it upon themselves to attack local Pagans and threatened to "cleanse" them from the town.
We the people find it offensive and derogatory when companies and individuals seek to exploit and defame Hinduism and Hindu traditions for material gain or personal fame. To see Durgamata, our Divine Mother, in a compromising position with an animal, to see Draupadi stripped naked, to see a naked Sita with a naked Lord Hanuman's tail between her legs and other obscene images of Hindu Goddesses including bestiality is deeply hurtful. Further, it is this sort of exploitation of Hinduism that leads to the negative portrayal of Hinduism we see here in the Western media and causes the apathy we witness when it comes to recognising the persecution of Hindus in parts of the world. We see this effect here in Britain where Hindu children are teased about their "funny Gods".