Sixth and seventh report of the CCG Signatories include Yashwant Sinha, former member of the BJP and former Finance and Foreign Minister of India , Wajahat Habibullah, former National Chief Information Commissioner, Air Vice Marshall (R) Kapil Kak, Bharat Bhushan, Senior Journalist Their demands: 1. Release forthwith all Kashmiris who were taken into preventive detention under …
Kashmir Scholars lodge a protest with the Center for Global Policy for misrepresenting the Kashmir issue
Kashmir scholars expressed a strong protest against the upcoming Dec.16 event on Kashmir organized by the Center for Global Policy, as well as for forming a Kashmir Policy Group without any real experts on Kashmir. You can read the whole letter here
Kashmir 120 Days: A report by the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared People
APDP releases a detailed report on 120 days of lockdown. Executive Summary This report is a narrative of the situation that arose in Kashmir valley, after the events of August 5th 2019. The report sheds light on the impact of the abrogation of Article 370 in the Indian Administered State of Jammu of Kashmir. The …
Kashmir Crisis Update: Kashmir siege completes four months–December 5, 2019
While the Prime Minister of India had suggested that the situation in Kashmir will return to normal in four months, Kashmir remains under siege had crossed the four month mark. Schools, colleges, and universities, remain closed even as tens of thousands of students have been forced to appear in annual exams. While education remains suspended, …
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Kashmir Crisis update on Justice and Legal Developments, Dec.4, 2019
Statements and Fact Finding Reports On 31st October 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 which divides the disputed territory under Indian control into two directly administered Union Territories came into effect. It was accompanied by a notification for the continuance of President’s Rule, and a spate of new executive orders including orders …
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Kashmir crisis update: Day 106 of Kashmir Siege, November 18, 2019
Kashmir crisis update: Day 106 Passing the hundred day mark of loss of autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the lockdown of Kashmir Valley enters its 106th day. Kashmir is still without all internet services, SMS text and prepaid phone service. Heads of various government offices have received notice to submit an undertaking …
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Imprisoned resistance: 5th August and its aftermath
An eleven member team comprising advocates, trade union and human activists and a psychiatrist visited Kashmir from Sept 28-Oct. 4, 2019. The broad aim of the team was to understand the situation persisting in the two months since the Abrogation of Article 370, and, to assess the quality of access to justice in these compelling …
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Kashmir siege: Eighty eight days and counting
Kashmir crisis update, October 30, 2019 October 30, marks eighty five days of the siege and communications clampdown in Kashmir. In another day, the state of Jammu and Kashmir will be officially bifurcated and turned into a Union territory of India. In the Valley, public transportation remains suspended, internet blocked, schools, colleges and universities nonfunctional, …
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Kashmir Scholars send a letter to the European Parliament members planning to visit Kashmir on October 29, 2019
Kashmir Scholars write to the visiting EP members urging them to speak to Kashmiri and Indian civil society members for an impartial assessment of the ongoing siege of Kashmir
Association of the Parents of the Disappeared People publishes an important report on state violence and pellet firing victims
In accordance with reports from other international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights as well as the United Nations’ Office of the Human Rights Commissioner’s 2018 Kashmir-specific report, APDP calls for the following recommendations regarding ongoing use of pellet guns in Kashmir: Ban the use of pellet-firing shotguns in Jammu …
