India has denied Amnesty International access to the country since 1984.
(India Torture, Rape & Deaths in Custody, Al Report: March 1992)

Government blackout of news in Punjab, only reports released were by official government version of events ..... Foreign reporters barred, they can be arrested or shot if they violate the ban ..... when journalists were finally allowed they were banned from taking pictures....
(New York Times: June 13, 1984)

..... in New Delhi three photographers working for the foreign news organizations were attacked and beaten by a mob today as about 60 policemen watched and did nothing.....
(Washington Post: November 5, 1984)

..... increasingly the police are reportedly targeting journalists and lawyers who have tried to expose human rights violations by the security forces in Punjab, by making them suffer such violations themselves.
(Amnesty International Report: December 1993)

September 15, 1994 the Home Ministry refuses to allow High Court Justice Ajit Singh Bains to board a plane for a visit to the U.K.   He is the chairman of the Punjab Human Rights Organizations.
(World Sikh News: October 1994)
 
 
  

Foreign Aid given to India:



Canada CDN $31.56 million (1991-92)
United States US $ 200 million (1991)

(Canadian International Development Agency Annual Report 1992-1993)


With such significant government contribution the donor country is in a position to bring pressure on the Indian Government to improve its human rights record, and comply with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.