India's top anti-terrorism investigation agency arrests prominent Kashmir human rights defender Khurram Parvez under controversial anti-terror law
The rights group has monitored violence in the region for more than three decades and has exposed rights violations by Indian government forces including torture, extra-judicial killings and unmarked mass graves in numerous reports.Last week, it criticised security forces for killing civilians during a controversial shootout with alleged rebels in Srinagar whose bodies were hurriedly buried by Indian police in a remote graveyard without their families present.
The Indian government has increasingly wielded the anti-terror law against rights activists, journalists and dissidents in Kashmir. The crackdown worsened particularly after August 2019, when India scrapped the disputed region’s special status, annulled its separate constitution, split the region into t wo federal territories and removed inherited protections on land and jobs.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, and both claim the region in its entirety. Most Kashmiris support the rebel goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.
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