India raises concerns over human rights issues in US — RT World News

India has stated that it’s monitoring human rights abuses within the US, together with these focusing on People of Indian origin. The assertion got here after Washington criticized India’s human rights document.

“We take up human rights points once they come up [in the US], particularly once they pertain to our group,” India’s International Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stated on Wednesday.

“And, the truth is, we had a case yesterday,” the minister stated, referring to the latest assaults on members of the Sikh group in New York.

On Tuesday, two males have been assaulted with fists and a stick in Richmond Hill in Queens, police stated. The victims have been hospitalized. The incident, which is being investigated as a potential hate crime, occurred per week after one other Sikh man was attacked in the identical space. He was left with a damaged nostril and extreme bruises.

“Sikhs have repeatedly confronted this sort of violence – now a number of instances on this similar place on this month alone,” Nikki Singh, senior coverage and advocacy supervisor with America’s Sikh Coalition group, stated in a press release. Anti-Sikh hate crimes elevated by 82% between 2019 and 2020, from 49 to 89, in line with the FBI.

Jaishankar’s assertion got here in response to feedback by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made on Monday. He stated Washington was “monitoring some latest regarding developments in India together with an increase in human rights abuses by some authorities, police and jail officers.”

“Persons are entitled to their views about us. However we’re equally entitled to have views… concerning the pursuits, and lobbies and [voters] that drive that,” Jaishankar stated.

On Tuesday, the State Division launched its annual report on human rights world wide, criticizing New Delhi for “a scarcity of accountability for official misconduct… in any respect ranges of presidency.”

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