Order imposing a curfew on Srinagar because, among other reasons, people were “planning to observe 5th August 2020 as a Black Day.”

Topics: violation of political rights, violation of right to free expression, violation of right to free assembly, violation of freedom of movement, colonial domination, Criminal Procedure Code Section 144

By fiat, the Government of India, through its functionaries in the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, notified the Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020, which diminished the indigenous people of Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir’s rights to access public employment opportunities, which are both economically vital and symbolically significant. On May 20, 2020, the Government of India  made the domicile certificate a condition for access to education in IAJK.  Again, these changes are in direct violation of international humanitarian law as well as the IoA and the now-abrogated J&K Constitution and Indian Constitutional provisions relating to J&K.  This facilitates forced demographic change and settler colonial activity while furthering the colonial domination, dispossession, disempowerment and marginalization of the territory’s indigenous people.  It is a major violation of international humanitarian law, human rights, indigenous rights, treaty obligations and constitutional guaranties.

Topics: changing the laws in force in occupied territory, international humanitarian law violation, no consent of governed, violation of economic rights, violation of cultural rights, violation of social rights, demographic change, settler colonialism, land expropriation, forced demographic change, colonial domination, dispossession, disempowerment, marginalization, right to education, right to work, indigenous rights, state subject, permanent resident, domicile      

In the context of severe suppression of journalism and repression of journalists in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir and general suppression of the right to free expression, the Government of India (through the Government of Jammu and Kashmir) imposed a new media policy widely described as “Orwellian.”

Topics: violation of political rights, violation of right to free expression, suppression of journalism, colonial domination

Order imposing internet speed restrictions to check “the unfettered misuse of social media for incimtenet and propagating/coordinating terror activities.”  

Topics: violation of political rights, violation of economic rights, violation of right to free expression, violation of right to internet, violation of right to communicate, colonial domination, violation of access to education, violation of access to health, violation of right to work, collective punishment

By fiat, this order eliminated historic rights (won through social mobilization and guaranteed by treaty and constitution) protective of the indigenous population’s ownership of immovable property, access to employment and access to educational opportunities.  This facilitates forced demographic change and settler colonial activity while furthering the colonial domination, dispossession, disempowerment and marginalization of the territory’s indigenous people.

Topics: changing laws in force in occupied territory, international humanitarian law violation, no consent of governed, violation of economic rights, violation of cultural rights, violation of social rights, demographic change, settler colonialism, land expropriation, forced demographic change, colonial domination, dispossession, disempowerment, marginalization, right to education, right to work, indigenous rights, state subject, permanent resident, domicile