Activities of The Punjab Rights Forum
Two major activities of the Punjab Rights Forum upon its inception were to hold a number of seminars across Punjab regarding the detention of over thirty Babbar Khalsa International terrorists and their supporters and for seeking the immediate release of Simranjit Singh Mann, President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and activists of the Dal Khalsa who had all been placed behind bars on charges of sedition following a pro-Khalistan rally that had been carried out through the streets of Amritsar on June 5, 2005 marking the 21st anniversary of Operation Bluestar.
The second major activity of the Punjab Rights Forum carried out soon after its creation was the organizing of a Human Rights convention in Jammu on July 30, 2005 where members of the PRF had called for and given support to the Kashmiri peoples' right to self-determination.
The PRF constituent members which had taken part in this convention included the:
- Punjab Human Rights Organisation
- International Human Rights Organisation
- Movement Against State Repression
- Lawyers for Human Rights International
- Khalra Mission Committee - for gaining justice for the murder of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra
- Human Rights and Democracy Forum
- Lok Raj Sangathana (New Delhi)
- Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)
- Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal)
- Sikh Students Federation
- Dal Khalsa
- SGPC Member- Karnail Singh Panjoli
- Bharti Kisan Union (Rajewal)
- Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta)
- Sikh Nari Manch
- Indian Ex-services League (Panjab and Chandigarh)
- Damdami Taksal
- Shriomani Khalsa Panchayat
- Sikh Human Rights Group (South Asia)
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