INDIA: In March Amnesty launched an ambitious campaign focusing on torture in police custody in India. The world-wide campaign brought an unprecedented degree of coverage to the issue within the country. Our campaign included a 10-point program to and police custodial abuse. On Sept.14 Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao speaking before a conference of all of Indias Chief Ministers expressed his determination that human rights violations in India would not be tolerated. He promised the government would take concrete steps to protect human rights especially among those segments of the population that Amnesty said was most vulnerable to abuse members of Indias scheduled castes and the poor.
In October the Indian Government announced the establishment of a human rights commission and formally invited Amnesty International to India It was the first time in two decades of hostility towards the organization that an Indian Government had agreed to let an Amnesty mission enter the country.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 18, 1992
