In July 2026, Indian authorities continued to commit grave human rights violations in Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK). Indian authorities killed at least two, continued their systematic campaign of mass detention, detaining over 3,500 people, and continued their systematic campaign of collective punishment through raids, cordon-and-search operations, home demolitions and property expropriation, including through the demolition or expropriation of at least 26 families’ properties. Indian authorities also escalated their systematic censorship of Kashmiris and work on IAK, including by ordering a mass purge of “anti-national” material from educational institutions and arresting book publishers, and escalated their campaign to erase and reconstruct history, including by charging six pro-self-determination activists with terrorism offenses for participating in a 1996 funeral procession.
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Numerous Kashmiri journalists, human rights defenders, activists, and dissenters continue to be arbitrarily detained. Emblematic cases include those of human rights lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom—illegally imprisoned for over two years (793 days) and scholar Shafat Wani—illegally imprisoned for almost a year and a half (504 days).