INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS OVER KASHMIR ISSUE

INTERNATIONAL DIGNITARIES STATEMENTS & TWEETS

Debbie Abrahams

MP-UK

The use of legislation, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Order and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act were further examples of infringements by the Indian Government of international and human rights law. The attack on human rights organisations such as Amnesty International India is another area of grave concern.

Sarah Owen

MP-UK

During Narendra Modi’s meeting with the United Nations General Assembly, he should be challenged on the breaking of long standing UN resolutions and reports of horrific human rights abuses in Kashmir.

Rachel Hopkins

MP-UK

I’m very concerned about the human rights abuses in Kashmir. The UK Govt must play its part in supporting peace & Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.

Yasmin Qureshi

MP-UK

The Kashmir struggle has been a long one, spanning many decades. The situation on the ground is deeply troubling. We can no longer turn a blind eye to some of the gravest human rights violations. This conflict is a colonial legacy - we have a responsibility to help resolve this

Imran Hussain

MP-UK

The time for just talking about Kashmir is over, it’s time for action.

Arundhati Roy

“His organization has documented the horror of what the Indian state has done in Kashmir that is why he is in jail...”

Arundhati Roy on Khurram’s arrest.

“Khurram Pervez is not a terrorist but a defender of human rights. In previous two years, 2500 innocent people have been arrested and some of them have been murdered while being declared as terrorists. All of them who die in fake encounters are innocent people.”

28 members of the House of Commons

- United Kingdom (UK) Parliament in a

joint Letter to Indian High Commission

Luciano Hazan (Chair-Rapporteur), Aua Baldé (Vice-Chair), Tae-Ung Baik, Gabriella Citroni, Henrikas Mickevičius, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Ms. Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Ms. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while counterterrorism; and Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

“We are concerned that one month after Mr. Parvez’s arrest, he is still deprived of liberty in what appears to be a new incident of retaliation for his legitimate activities as a human rights defender and because he has spoken out about violations, In view of this context of previous reprisals, we call on the Indian authorities to immediately release him and ensure his rights to liberty and security. We regret that the Government continues to use the UAPA as a means of coercion to restrict civil society’s, the media’s and human rights defenders’ fundamental freedoms in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir as well as in the rest of the country. We therefore once again urge the Government to bring this legislation in line with India’s international legal obligations under human rights law.”