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Jharkhand: Days Ahead Of Teachers Day Students Tie Teachers To a Tree, Thrash Them Over Poor Marks

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โ€œStudents called us on the pretext of holding a meeting and said their results were spoiled. It happened because their practical marks were not included in the results.โ€

Dumka: A group of school students in Jharkhandโ€™s Dumka district tied their teachers to a tree and allegedly beat them up for giving them low scores which resulted in the students failing their exams.
The First information report (FIR) has been registered against the headmaster and 11 students, the police said.
โ€œTeacher Suman Kumar and clerk Soneram Chaure complained that they were beaten up and tied to a tree on the instructions of the headmaster. An FIR has been registered against the headmaster and 11 students,โ€ said Nityanand Bhokta, Gopikandar PS in charge, Dumka.

When Dumka education officers arrived at the scene after the incident was reported, students complained that their teachers had given them very few marks in practicals and that they had not been given an explanation.
โ€œWe received info on the incident and held talks with all teachers. When we reached there, students said that they were given very less marks in practicals and they didnโ€™t receive an adequate response from their teachers,โ€ said Surendra Hebram, Block Education Extension Officer, Gopikandar, Dumka.

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In a response to the incident, Kumar Suman a teacher said students called them under the guise of holding a meeting and complained that their results were spoiled.

โ€œStudents called us on the pretext of holding a meeting and said their results were spoiled. It happened because their practical marks were not included in the results. That was to be done by the headmaster. So we couldnโ€™t have taken any step in this regard,โ€ Suman said.

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UN Reports: Human Right Vioaltions In China- Uyghur, Muslim Communities

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Even if the VETC system has as China says, โ€œbeen reduced in scope or wound upโ€, said OHCHR, โ€œthe laws and policies that underpin it remain in placeโ€.

Geneva: A report published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday stated that China has committed โ€œserious human rights violationsโ€ against the Uyghur and โ€œother predominantly Muslim communitiesโ€ in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

The long-awaited report by OHCHR comes in the wake of the visit by UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet in May, who said that โ€œallegations of patterns of torture, or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence.โ€ Published on Bacheletโ€™s final day of her four-year term in office, the report said that the violations have taken place in the context of the Chinese Governmentโ€™s assertion that it is targeting terrorists among the Uyghur minority with a counter-extremism strategy that involves the use of so-called Vocational Educational and Training Centres (VETCs), or re-education camps.
In a strongly-worded assessment at the end of the report, OHCHR said that the extent of arbitrary detentions against Uyghur and others, in context of โ€œrestrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights, enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.โ€

The assessment was initiated following serious allegations of human rights violations against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities brought to the attention of the UN Human Rights Office and UN human rights mechanisms since late 2017, particularly in the context of the Chinese Governmentโ€™s policies and measures to combat terrorism and โ€œextremismโ€.
The OHCHR said that the government policy in recent years in Xinjiang has โ€œled to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights.โ€

Even if the VETC system has as China says, โ€œbeen reduced in scope or wound upโ€, said OHCHR, โ€œthe laws and policies that underpin it remain in placeโ€, leading to an increased use of imprisonment.
The systems of arbitrary detention and related patterns of abuse since 2017, said OHCHR, โ€œcome against the backdrop of broader discriminationโ€ against Uyghur and other minorities.
โ€œThis has included far-reaching, arbitrary and discriminatory restrictions on human rights and fundamental freedoms, in violation of international laws and standardsโ€, including restrictions on religious freedom and the rights to privacy and movement.

The assessment is based on a rigorous review of documentary material currently available to the Office, with its credibility assessed in accordance with standard human rights methodology.

Particular attention was given to the governmentโ€™s own laws, policies, data and statements. The Office also requested information and engaged in dialogue and technical exchanges with China throughout the process.
The information was assessed against applicable international human rights law, and builds on the work of a number of UN human rights mechanisms.

Furthermore, the report said that Chinese government policies in the region have โ€œtranscended bordersโ€, separating families, โ€œseveringโ€ contacts, producing โ€œpatterns of intimidations and threatsโ€ against the wider Uyghur diaspora who have spoken out about conditions at home.

The OHCHR said that the Chinese government โ€œholds the primary duty to ensure that all laws and policies are brought into compliance with international human rights law and to promptly investigate any allegations of human rights violations, to ensure accountability for perpetrators, and to provide redress to victims.โ€
The UN rights office recommended China to take โ€œprompt stepsโ€ to release all individuals arbitrarily imprisoned in XUAR, whether in camps or any other detention centre.

China should let families know the whereabouts of any individuals who have been detained, providing exact locations, and help to establish โ€œsafe channels of communicationโ€ and allow families to reunite, said the report.

The report calls on China to undertake a full legal review of its national security and counter-terrorism policies in XUAR, โ€œto ensure their full compliance with binding international human rights lawโ€ and repeal any laws that fall short of international standards.

It also calls for a prompt government investigation into allegations of human rights violations in camps and other detention facilities, โ€œincluding allegations of torture, sexual violence, ill-treatment, forced medical treatment, as well as forced labour and reports of deaths in custody.โ€

Meanwhile, the Chinese government rebutted the long and detailed report of OCHR and said that authorities in the Xinjiang region operate on the principle that everyone is equal before the law, โ€œand the accusation that its policy is โ€˜based on discriminationโ€™ is groundless.โ€

China said that its counter-terrorism and โ€œde-radicalization effortsโ€ in the region, had been conducted according to โ€œthe rule of lawโ€ and by no means add up to โ€œsuppression of ethnic minorities.โ€
On the issue of the camps, Beijing responded that the VETCs are โ€œlearning facilities established in accordance with law intended for de-radicalizationโ€ and not โ€œconcentration campsโ€.

 

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