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Khurram Parvez

UN Human Rights Experts Call For ‘Immediate Release’ of Khurram Parvez

New Delhi: The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) on Wednesday, December 22 issued a statement in which it noted that...

How a terrorism law in India is being used to silence Modi’s critics

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Aakash Hassan in Srinagar Khurram Parvez was a teenager when his grandfather, a civilian, was gunned down by the Indian...

Opinion: Kashmir’s already vulnerable civil society is being crushed

By Hafsa Kanjwal As the Biden administration prepares to host India’s Hindu nationalist government in its virtual Summit for Democracy later this week, Kashmir’s civil society...

UN voices concern over killings, arrest of activist in Kashmir

The United Nations has voiced concern over the arrest of a Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez as well as recent killings in the...

Oxford university students protest against ‘atrocities in Kashmir’, demand Khurram Parvez’s release

Students of the University of Oxford, England on Sunday staged a protest demonstration demanding an end to the “atrocities” in Kashmir and the release...

Why J&K Activist Khurram Parvez Is in NIA Crosshairs Again

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested prominent human rights defender Khurram Parvez following day-long raids on his residence as well as the office of...

Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez arrested by NIA

By Junaid Kathju Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday evening arrested prominent human rights activist Khurram Parvez after raiding his residence and office...

“The Government Wants Control, Not Peace”: An Interview with Khurram Parvez

By MOAZUM MOHAMMAD On 14 September 2016, immigration authorities from the Indira Gandhi International airport disallowed Khurram Parvez, a 39-year-old Kashmiri human-rights activist, from boarding...