This is a communication of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and two UN Special Rapporteurs (on freedom of opinion and human rights defenders) to the Government of India concerning the India's refusing entry to the Secretary-General of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) as a result of her work on enforced disappearances in Kashmir.
Topics: attacks on human rights defenders, enforced disappearances, human rights defenders, unmarked graves, mass graves, impunity, lack of accountability
Terms: Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso, Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), refusal of entry, lack of access by international human rights organizations
Concern is expressed that Ms. Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso was seemingly refused permission to enter India as a result of her legitimate human rights activities, especially her work on the cases of enforced disappearances in Kashmir. Concern is further expressed at what appears to be reprisal for the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression and association by Ms. Diez Bacalso and her colleagues from AFAD.
August 2014
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