India
Release Khurram Parvez: UN’s second appeal to India in three weeks
The United Nations on Wednesday said that the Narendra Modi government was targeting Kashmir's prominent human rights defender Khurram Parvez for speaking about rights violations.
India
Kashmiri mother dies without meeting her jailed son
Muneera's son, Aijaz Ahmad Naik is languishing in jail since May 6, 2019, for "harbouring militants". The mother's desperate attempt to see her son was in vain as she breathed her last on 11 December.
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India
Following CDS Rawat’s death, crackdown on social media users intensifies in Kashmir
Afreen Naqash, 26 years old from Srinagar, an employee in the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) bank, was scrolling on social media, and accidentally she clicked twice and sent a laughing emoji reaction to a news story on the chopper crash in which the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat died.
India
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.
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Bookshelf
Rumours of Spring: Farah Bashir’s memoir is resistance in itself
Erstwhile Reuters photojournalist, Farah Bashir’s memoir is a timely and crucial intervention in South-Asian studies. As the title of the book suggests, it is the true story of a...
India
‘No firing from another side’: Locals question police version on Rambagh ‘encounter’
Politicians, activists and families in the Valley have questioned the official version after the Jammu and Kashmir police claimed that three militants including a commander of The Resistance Front (TRF) were killed in a brief shootout in Rambagh area in uptown Srinagar on Wednesday.
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India
A year on, Kashmir man charged under UAPA seeking son’s body now asks: ‘Any hope?’
"I didn't get his body but I just had his shoes for the burial", says Athar Mushtaq's wailing father Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, who is waiting helplessly and desperately for his son's body since 2020 December.
India
United Nations, global rights groups concerned over Khurram Parvez’s arrest
United Nations, global rights watchdogs, and human rights defenders said they were disturbed by the reports of the arrest of Kashmir's one of the most prominent activists Khurram Parvez by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA).
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India
Kashmir: NIA arrests Human rights defender Khurram Parvez under UAPA
Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights defender in the Valley and the coordinator of the civil-society group Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society has been arrested by National Investigation Agency, journalists in Kashmir informed via Twitter.
India
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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Features
“I want to bury him,” says father of third Kashmiri killed in Hyderpora
For Muhammad Lateef Magray, the grief over the death of his son has turned to extreme disappointment and anger.
Magray resides under a security cover in a tribal village in...
Features
Family of slain Kashmiri dentist affirms foulplay by Indian forces
Gul — a dental surgeon turned real estates entrepreneur — has taken a shop on rent in the same [Altaf’s] complex where the alleged gunfight took place.
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