Sunday, April 28, 2024

Gafira Qadir

Gafira Qadir is a journalist based in Kashmir, covering human rights, gender, and education.

He should be allowed to work when you say it’s a democracy: Khurram Parvez’s wife

Sameena Mir sits composed at her home in Srinagar, now empty and taken over by a deafening silence. Last week, her husband, Khurram Parvez, the region’s most prominent human rights defender, was arrested by India’s premier investigation agency under a stringent anti-terror law.

We were abducted, used as human shields by Indian army, Kashmiris share ordeal

"They [forces] threatened me to shut my family up, otherwise, they would kill them," he said. "I then left with them," Amir Niyaz said. Maktoob speaks to two Kashmiri men including Niyaz who were abducted from home and used as human shields by the Indian army.
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25 years after custodial killing of Kashmir man, court orders to probe investigating officers

Jameela Bhat has recorded her statements hundreds of times before police officers in the valley in the last 25 years - repeating the same story again and again - in a case of her husband’s custodial killing. "Even when I talk about it now, I can see the same visuals of that day," she said. "I have been telling the same story all these years."