J&K Police arrests human right activist Khurram Parvez

September 16, 2016 04:28

The J&K Police have arrested a well-known Kashmiri human rights defender from his home in Srinagar late this evening.

This is a day after he was stopped in Delhi by authorities to board a flight to Geneva where he was going to attend the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Commission session.

Khurram Pervez, 39. who is presently Chairperson of Asian Federation Against involuntary Disappearances and Program Coordinator of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, has been kept in Kothibagh Police Station. Despite repeated attempts, the police officers were not available to comment on the arrest.

This is the first such high profile arrest of a human rights activist in Kashmir in the recent past and is seen as part of governments crackdown on civil society in the valley that is critical of the Mehbooba Mufti led governments use of excessive force to quell the current uprising.

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