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Communication of UN working group and special rapporteurs June 5 2023

This communication from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights defenders, the rights to assembly and association and the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism expresses serious concern at the arrest, detention and accusations brought against Irfan Mehraj and Khurram Parvez, which gravely conflates their legitimate human rights work with terrorism. The UN human rights experts "underline the legitimacy of their work" and note that their persecution is "designed to delegitimize their human rights work and obstruct monitoring of the humanrights situation in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir."

Topics: arrest and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders Irfan Mehraj and Khurram Parvez

Terms: March 2023 arbitrary detention of Irfan Mehraj, November 2021 arbitrary detention of Khurram Parvez, Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, abuse of counter-terror laws, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), abuse of terror funding laws, Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Group

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

June 2023

Communication of UN working group and special rapporteurs June 5 2023

This communication from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights defenders, the rights to assembly and association and the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism expresses serious concern at the arrest, detention and accusations brought against Irfan Mehraj and Khurram Parvez, which gravely conflates their legitimate human rights work with terrorism. The UN human rights experts "underline the legitimacy of their work" and note that their persecution is "designed to delegitimize their human rights work and obstruct monitoring of the humanrights situation in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir."

Topics: arrest and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders Irfan Mehraj and Khurram Parvez

Terms: March 2023 arbitrary detention of Irfan Mehraj, November 2021 arbitrary detention of Khurram Parvez, Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, abuse of counter-terror laws, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), abuse of terror funding laws, Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Group

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

June 2023

Communication of UN working group and special rapporteurs April 3 2023

This communication from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights defenders, the promotion of freedom of speech, the rights to assembly and association, the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism and torture expresses serious concern regarding the arbitrary detetnion and ill-treatment of Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, the misuse of counter-terror laws to retaliate against human rights defenders and poor conditions of detention, indefinite detention and detention with charge or trial. The UN human rights experts note that "his detention appears to be part of a strategy to disrupt, intimidate, detain and punish those engaging in journalism and human rights advocacy."

Topics: arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of human rights defender Muhammad Ahsan Untoo

Terms: January 2022 arbitrary detention of Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, International Forum for Justice and Human Rights Jammu Kashmir, ill-treatment, torture, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), revolving door detention, violaiton of right to fair trial, violation of right to habeas corpus, violation of right to liberty, poor prison conditions, denial of medical treatment, physical torture, sexual torture, special cell, Security Council Resolution 1566, Nelson Mandela Rules, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Group

Posted to KLJP

November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

April 2023

Communication of UN working group and special rapporteurs April 3 2023

This communication from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights defenders, the promotion of freedom of speech, the rights to assembly and association, the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism and torture expresses serious concern regarding the arbitrary detetnion and ill-treatment of Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, the misuse of counter-terror laws to retaliate against human rights defenders and poor conditions of detention, indefinite detention and detention with charge or trial. The UN human rights experts note that "his detention appears to be part of a strategy to disrupt, intimidate, detain and punish those engaging in journalism and human rights advocacy."

Topics: arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of human rights defender Muhammad Ahsan Untoo

Terms: January 2022 arbitrary detention of Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, International Forum for Justice and Human Rights Jammu Kashmir, ill-treatment, torture, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), revolving door detention, violaiton of right to fair trial, violation of right to habeas corpus, violation of right to liberty, poor prison conditions, denial of medical treatment, physical torture, sexual torture, special cell, Security Council Resolution 1566, Nelson Mandela Rules, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Group

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

April 2023

Kupwara Massacre 1994

On January 27, 1994, soldiers of the 31 Madras Regiment, the 15 Punjab Regiment and the Rashtriya Rifles as well as Kilo Force (counterinsurgency) (under the command of GDS Bakshi and VK Singh) through "deliberate and indiscriminate" firing killed at least 21 people and injured at least 37 people in Kupwara. This fact finding probe was compiled by Institute of Kashmir studies and has been reproduced by Legal Forum for Kashmir.

Topics: Kupwara massacre: brief facts, insights from witness statements, tolls of the massacre, IKS study, testimonies, International Forum for Justice, Human Rights takes the role ahead, CID of J&K Police submits a report with SHRC, list of perpetrators, lists of victims

Terms: systematic killing, mass killing, systematic maiming, mass maiming, denial of right to free expression, legalized impunity, failure of accountability, war crimes, crimes against humanity

Legal Forum for Kashmir

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

January 2023

Kupwara Massacre 1994

On January 27, 1994, soldiers of the 31 Madras Regiment, the 15 Punjab Regiment and the Rashtriya Rifles as well as Kilo Force (counterinsurgency) (under the command of GDS Bakshi and VK Singh) through "deliberate and indiscriminate" firing killed at least 21 people and injured at least 37 people in Kupwara. This fact finding probe was compiled by Institute of Kashmir studies and has been reproduced by Legal Forum for Kashmir.

Topics: Kupwara massacre: brief facts, insights from witness statements, tolls of the massacre, IKS study, testimonies, International Forum for Justice, Human Rights takes the role ahead, CID of J&K Police submits a report with SHRC, list of perpetrators, lists of victims

Terms: systematic killing, mass killing, systematic maiming, mass maiming, denial of right to free expression, legalized impunity, failure of accountability, war crimes, crimes against humanity

Legal Forum for Kashmir

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

January 2023

Slaughter in Sopore

On the morning of January 6, 1993, Indian troops of the 94 Battalion of the Border Security Force (94 Bn. BSF), led by Commanding Officer S. Thangappan, shot and killed 46 people and injured dozens more. This fact finding probe into the January 6, 1993 Sopore Massacre was compiled by Institute of Kashmir studies and has been reproduced by Legal Forum for Kashmir.

Topics: Sopore massacre: brief facts, government inquiry of the Sopore massacre, public reaction and protests after the Sopore massacre, statements by international organizations, politicians and Hurriyat, Sopore massacre in the local press, Sopore massacre and human rights organizations, list of civilians killed, list of civilians injured, details of property damaged, details of houses burnt, divisional fire officer's diary, probe into Sopore incidents yet to take off

Terms: systematic killing, mass killing, mass arson, systematic destruction of property, systematic maiming, mass maiming, denial of right to free assembly, legalized impunity, failure of accountability, war crimes, crimes against humanity

Legal Forum for Kashmir

Posted to KLJP

November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

January 2023

Slaughter in Sopore

On the morning of January 6, 1993, Indian troops of the 94 Battalion of the Border Security Force (94 Bn. BSF), led by Commanding Officer S. Thangappan, shot and killed 46 people and injured dozens more. This fact finding probe into the January 6, 1993 Sopore Massacre was compiled by Institute of Kashmir studies and has been reproduced by Legal Forum for Kashmir.

Topics: Sopore massacre: brief facts, government inquiry of the Sopore massacre, public reaction and protests after the Sopore massacre, statements by international organizations, politicians and Hurriyat, Sopore massacre in the local press, Sopore massacre and human rights organizations, list of civilians killed, list of civilians injured, details of property damaged, details of houses burnt, divisional fire officer's diary, probe into Sopore incidents yet to take off

Terms: systematic killing, mass killing, mass arson, systematic destruction of property, systematic maiming, mass maiming, denial of right to free assembly, legalized impunity, failure of accountability, war crimes, crimes against humanity

Legal Forum for Kashmir

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November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

January 2023

2022 Annual Review Human Rights Situation in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir

This is an overview of the human rights situation in Indian-administered Kashmir. Among other violations, the following violations were recorded: at least 312 killings (at least 181 resistance fighters, 45 civilians, and 86 Indian forces personnel), at least 199 military cordon and search or cordon and destroy operations and the vandalism or destruction of approximately 212 civilian properties.

Topics: militarization of Jammu and Kashmir, civilian killings, extrajudicial and custodial killings, destruction and vandalism of civilian properties, compensation, properties seized, continuous denial of burial and funeral rights, termination of employees, war against the academics, harassment and persecution of Kashmiris in India, how lawful is the UAPA, continuous detention of human rights defenders, freedom of speech, erosion of newspaper data, forced into self-censorship, arrest and summoning of religious clerics, Kashmir an information black hole, social media, settler colonialism, politics of Amarnath Yatra, forcing Kashmiri students to sing Hindu bhajans, illegal acquisition of land by Indian army, giving non-locals voting rights

Terms: violation of right to life, extrajudicial killing, custodial killing, destruction of property, taking of property, expropriation, violation of cultural rights, violation of freedom of religion or belief, reprisals, violation of right to work, violation of academic freedom, discrimination, targeting, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), targeting human rights defenders, violation of right to free expression, violation of right to free press and information, violation of political rights, political disempowerment, settler colonialism, forced demographic change

Legal Forum for Kashmir - LFK

Posted to KLJP

November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

December 2022

2022 Annual Review Human Rights Situation in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir

This is an overview of the human rights situation in Indian-administered Kashmir. Among other violations, the following violations were recorded: at least 312 killings (at least 181 resistance fighters, 45 civilians, and 86 Indian forces personnel), at least 199 military cordon and search or cordon and destroy operations and the vandalism or destruction of approximately 212 civilian properties.

Topics: militarization of Jammu and Kashmir, civilian killings, extrajudicial and custodial killings, destruction and vandalism of civilian properties, compensation, properties seized, continuous denial of burial and funeral rights, termination of employees, war against the academics, harassment and persecution of Kashmiris in India, how lawful is the UAPA, continuous detention of human rights defenders, freedom of speech, erosion of newspaper data, forced into self-censorship, arrest and summoning of religious clerics, Kashmir an information black hole, social media, settler colonialism, politics of Amarnath Yatra, forcing Kashmiri students to sing Hindu bhajans, illegal acquisition of land by Indian army, giving non-locals voting rights

Terms: violation of right to life, extrajudicial killing, custodial killing, destruction of property, taking of property, expropriation, violation of cultural rights, violation of freedom of religion or belief, reprisals, violation of right to work, violation of academic freedom, discrimination, targeting, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), targeting human rights defenders, violation of right to free expression, violation of right to free press and information, violation of political rights, political disempowerment, settler colonialism, forced demographic change

Legal Forum for Kashmir - LFK

Posted to KLJP

November 23, 2023

Historical Reports

Originally published

December 2022