April 2023
The violations of human rights of India’s minority groups have continued during the first quarter of 2023, covered by this edition of the India Persecution Tracker. The Tracker documents India’s waning democracy and failure to protect its religious minorities from attacks on their life, liberty and other freedoms, as well as the role of the ruling BJP government in the atrocities being committed and its failures to protect minorities. As in previous editions, we report by international human rights law categories, to try to build a record of the most serious violations. Notable trends and developments in the reporting period, i.e. between 1st January 2023 to 10th April 2023, include: