New Delhi: Amnesty International has expressed concern that the victims of 2002 post-Godhra riots are yet to get justice.

In its report for 2007 on `World human rights' released here on Wednesday, Amnesty said: "Justice continued to evade most victims and survivors of the 2002 violence in Gujarat, in which thousands of Muslims were attacked and more than 2,000 were killed. Rehabilitation continued to be slow. Members of the Muslim minority in Gujarat reportedly faced difficulties in accessing housing to rent and public resources."

It said, "An official panel concluded that over 5,000 displaced families lived in `sub-human' conditions. There continued to be a few successful prosecutions relating to the violence. However, 1,594 cases closed by the State police were reopened on the orders of the Supreme Court and 41 police officials were being prosecuted for their alleged role."

The report said, "New evidence on the riots emerged, in the form of details of mobile phone calls made between those leading the attacks and politicians belonging to the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist party."

On J&K, Amnesty said, "Politically motivated violence slightly decreased, but torture, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions continued to be reported.

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