"They Should Be Beaten and Skinned Alive": The Final Phase of India's War on Kashmiri Civil Society describes Indian authorities’ escalating efforts to silence Kashmiris during the period from October 2020 to October 2022, specifically targeting Kashmiri human rights defenders, including journalists, human rights activists, scholars and other Kashmiris who attempt to hold India to account for its ongoing human rights violations. This report also describes the ongoing failure of international accountability in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir, why the systematic, widespread, ongoing violations in IAJK merit urgent action and provides recommendations within the existing legal authority of the international community to remedy the ongoing failure of international accountability.

Topics: introduction; India's pattern of targeting Kashmiri civil society; continued impunity in IAJK increases the risk of grave violations; recommendations to remedy the ongoing failure of international accountability

Terms: denial of right to freedom of thought and conscience, denial of right to freedom of opinion and expression; denial of right to peaceful assembly and association; denial of right to defend human rights; denial of right to free press and information; enforced silencing; targeting of journalists, human rights activists, scholars an dissenters; Public Safety Act; Armed Forces Special Powers Act; Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act; arbitrary detention; Medial Policy-2020; Sanna Irshad Mattoo; Aakash Hassan; Fahad Shah; Gowhar Geelani; Kashmir Press Club; Khurram Parvez; Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society; Abdul Aala Fazili; Dr. Sheikh Showkat; Dr. Altaf Hussain Pandit