In December 2025, Indian authorities continued to commit grave human rights violations in Indian-administered Kashmir. Indian authorities continued their recently escalated, ongoing, systematic campaigns of mass detention and raids, conducting hundreds of additional raids and cordon-and-search operations and detaining several hundred additional people, including the prominent political activists Shakeel Bakshi and Javid Mir. Indian authorities materially enhanced their ongoing, systematic denial of free expression, including through banning Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and numerous detentions for using VPN applications. Indian authorities escalated their ongoing, systematic campaign of property expropriation through additional land seizures for railway and military infrastructure projects and for purposes of trans-national repression, specifically targeting activists Tony Ashai, Dr. G. N. Fai, Mubeen Shah and Rifat Wani for their advocacy work.
Numerous Kashmiri journalists, human rights defenders, activists, and dissenters continue to be arbitrarily detained. Emblematic cases include those of human rights defender Khurram Parvez—illegally imprisoned for over four years (1,523 days), journalist Irfan Mehraj—illegally imprisoned for almost three years (1,039 days), human rights lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom—illegally imprisoned for nineteen months (577 days) and scholar Shafat Wani—illegally imprisoned for over nine months (288 days).