In November 2025, Indian authorities continued to commit grave human rights violations in Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK). Indian forces killed at least two people. Indian authorities substantially escalated their ongoing systematic campaigns of mass detention, raids and property expropriations, conducting hundreds of raids and cordon-and-search operations and detaining thousands of people, targeting, among others, scholars, physicians, their families and associates as well as people and locations allegedly affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir. Indian authorities further escalated the suppression of press freedom through enhanced surveillance and data gathering on journalists and completed their longstanding crackdown on Kashmir Times.
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 (1,507 days), journalist Irfan Mehraj—illegally imprisoned for almost three years (1,023 days), human rights lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom—illegally imprisoned for over a year and a half (561 days) and scholar Shafat Wani—illegally imprisoned for over nine months (272 days).