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Amnesty International has urged US President Barack Obama to take up issue of human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir in his upcoming meeting with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sing. In a letter written to US President, AI Executive Director Larry Cox said, On behalf of Amnesty International USA, I urge you to candidly address human rights concerns in India during your upcoming meeting with the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and to press him to make substantive improvements. Even though India is the world's largest democracy, serious and disturbing human rights abuses are ongoing, including rape, extrajudicial executions, deaths in police and military custody, torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrests, and dowry deaths. The Government of India not only fails to prevent these abuses, but also shelters members of security forces from facing justice, AI maintained.
