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India raises concerns over human rights in US
New Delhi hit back at US Secretary of State’s comment about its human rights record
India has said that it is tracking human rights abuses in the US, including those targeting Americans of Indian origin. The statement came after Washington criticized New Delhi's human rights record.
“We take up human rights issues when they arise [in the US], especially when they pertain to our community,” the Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Wednesday.
“And, in fact, we had a case yesterday,” the minister said, referring to the recent attacks on members of the Sikh community in New York.
On Tuesday, two men were assaulted with fists and a stick in Richmond Hill in Queens, police said. The victims were hospitalized. The incident, which is being investigated as a possible hate crime, occurred a week after another Sikh man was attacked in the same area. He was left with a broken nose and severe bruises.
“Sikhs have repeatedly faced this kind of violence – now multiple times in this same place in this month alone,” Nikki Singh, senior policy and advocacy manager with America’s Sikh Coalition group, said in a statement. Anti-Sikh hate crimes increased by 82% between 2019 and 2020, from 49 to 89, according to the FBI.
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https://www.rt.com/news/553866-india-us-human-rights/
Sikhs are noble and honorable people. They do wear turbans though- and don't cut their hair- so I suppose that getting beaten up is their own fault.