In wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Government of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir must restore full access to internet services in the region of Jammu and Kashmir and ensure that people have full access to health and safety related information, said Amnesty International...

In this oral statement delivered by Amnesty International at the UN Human Rights Council on 10 March 2020, during the Item 4 General Debate on “situations requiring the attention of the Council,” Amnesty International raised concerns over grave ongoing human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur...

Responding to India’s detention of Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, under the region’s repressive Public Safety Act (PSA), Head of Amnesty International India Aakar Patel said: “The use of the Public Safety Act on Farooq Abdullah is a blatant abuse of the law by the...

Responding to India’s detention of Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, under the region’s repressive Public Safety Act (PSA), Head of Amnesty International India Aakar Patel said: “The use of the Public Safety Act on Farooq Abdullah is a blatant abuse of the law by the...

Ahead of a closed-door consultation on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Security Council today, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International said: “For the first time in decades the United Nations Security Council is taking up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Members of the...

Ahead of a closed-door consultation on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Security Council today, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International said: “For the first time in decades the United Nations Security Council is taking up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Members of the...

Kamran Yousuf was granted bail and released from prison on 14 March 2018, following six months of pre-trial detention. He has been charged with several criminal offences including ‘waging war against the government of India’, and faces life imprisonment if convicted.

Kamran Yousuf has been charged with several criminal offences including ‘waging war against the government of India’. The charges are based on the allegation that he only covered violent protests in Kashmir rather than other ‘developmental activities’. In pre-trial detention for over five months,...

Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights defender, was released from administrative detention on 30 November, five days after a court ruled his detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act arbitrary and illegal.

Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights defender, has been placed in administrative detention a day after a court ordered his release on 20 September. He was previously prevented from flying to the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva without any official explanation and arrested on...

Twenty-five years after the introduction of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Jammu and Kashmir, the law continues to feed a cycle of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, “Denied: Failures in accountability for human...

Twenty-five years after the introduction of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Jammu and Kashmir, the law continues to feed a cycle of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, “Denied: Failures in accountability for human...