India Failing on Kashmiri Human Rights

Expand An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as snow falls in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, January 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Dar Yasin Kashmir has been under a lockdown for five months. Fearing that Kashmiris might protest the revocation of autonomy provided to Jammu and Kashmir state under India’s constitution, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi clamped down. Since the restrictions in August, the government has taken slow, reluctant steps to ease some of them, but is still falling far short in upholding Kashmiri rights. Many of the thousands arbitrarily arrested…

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