On the first-year anniversary of prominent Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez’s arrest and detention, four human rights organisations (Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen ParticipationFIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights DefendersWorld Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) have submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

UN experts (Aua Baldé (Chair-Rapporteur), Gabriella Citroni (Vice-Chair), Grażyna Baranowska, Luciano Hazan, Angkhana Neelapaijit, Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances;  Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism and Morris Tidball-Binz, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions) demand the immediate & unconditional release of Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez, saying that his arrest & detention has a chilling effect on civil society, rights activists & journalists.

Amnesty International, Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, FORUM-ASIA, Front Line Defenders (FLD), Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Minority Rights Group International, Stichting The London Story and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who was arrested one year ago on November 22, 2021 on politically motivated terrorism and other charges.

Human Rights as Terror: Authoritarianism as Democracy

A critical examination of state crackdowns on civil society in Kashmir and Palestine, and the role of the international community in defending against authoritarianism and promoting respect for human rights in those regions.  This event is being organized in response to the recent escalated crackdowns in the subject regions, the launching of the US-led “Summit for Democracy” (December 9-10) and Human Rights Day (December 10).

Solidarity letter urging international medical and humanitarian organizations to demand that the Indian Government address the public health crisis and related issues in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir.