Topic: Jammu and Kashmir
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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).
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.
