In September 2025, Indian authorities continued to commit grave human rights violations in Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK). Indian forces killed at least eleven people and continued their systematic campaigns of mass arbitrary detention (at least 70 new detentions reported), raids and property expropriation. Indian authorities denied funeral rites to the family of Prof. Abdul Ghani Bhat, blocked over 300 additional social media accounts and installed the Ashoka emblem at the Hazratbal mosque/shrine (and detained people who protested). Efforts to criminalize human rights work, erase documentation of violations and impunity and manufacture false history in IAK accelerated, including through the publication and promotion of a propagandistic attack on landmark human rights work on enforced disappearances and unmarked graves in IAK.

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 almost four years (1,430 days), journalist Irfan Mehraj—illegally imprisoned for over two and a half years (946 days), human rights lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom—illegally imprisoned for over one year (484 days) and scholar Shafat Wani—illegally imprisoned for over six months (195 days).