India fares badly in new Amnesty report

Amnesty International on Wednesday came out with its annual report on human rights abuses across the world.
India fared badly with Amnesty saying that despite many types of human rights abuses occurring in the country, the government failed to protect the rights of its people effectively.
And for the first time, a delegation from Amnesty will be meeting the Vice President along with the National Human Rights Commission this week to present their findings.
The report documents human rights issues in 150 countries in 2007.
Here's how India scored on the human rights scale:

Amnesty International Report denounces:

Killings, forced eviction, excessive police force in Nandigram.
Criticises unlawful detention of activist Dr Binayak Sen in Chhattisgarh. (Source: Amnesty International Report, 2008)
PTI adds:
In its report released in New Delhi, the leading rights body made observations on the state of human rights in the country with special focus on Nandigram violence, ''disappearance'' of people in Jammu and Kashmir and displacement of tribals in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh.
Accusing the Left-Front government in West Bengal of not acting in an impartial manner throughout last year as the Nandigram violence flared up, its India director Mukul Sharma demanded that ''those responsible for the violence must be prosecuted and the grievances of victims redressed.''
''Our team found that CPI-M supporters frequently subjected women to violent attacks, including rape and beatings, as well as to threats and harassment ...'' The report noted the ''disappearances'' in Jammu and Kashmir following reports of 940 mass graves found in Uri district.
The report also highlighted the plight of adivasis in Dantewada, many of whom have been displaced from their homes and are being forced to live in special camps, allegedly due to the Salwa Judum anti-naxal campaign.
Amnesty sought abolition of death penalty and pointed out that ''atleast 100 people have been sentenced to death although no executions took place.''