KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Support and solidarity for the release of Khurram Parvez has been continuously growing since his arrest on Friday, September 16, said JKCCS on Thursday.
Khurram Parvez is an internationally renowned and awarder winner human rights defender and programme coordinator of Srinagar based human rights group Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS).
In solidarity with Khurram Parvez, who was slapped with notorious Public Safety Act (PSA) and was lodged in Kotbalwal Jail in Jammu, member organizations of Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) today assembled outside the Indian Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia and demanded his immediate and unconditional release from jail, the rights defender group said in a statement.
Khurram Parvez is the chairperson of AFAD. KontraS and IKOHI, which are AFAD member organizations, organized the protests, the statement informed.
KontraS (The Commission for ‘the Disappeared’ and Victims of Violence) and IKOHI (Association of Families of the Disappeared) are two human rights organization based in Indonesia which are members of AFAD.
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) is a federation of human rights organizations working directly on the issue of involuntary disappearances in Asia. Envisioning a world without desaparecidos, the Federation was founded on June 4, 1998 in Manila, Philippines.
In another event at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi today, a joint protest was organized by People’s Union for Democratic Rights against the brutal violation of democratic rights and civil liberties in Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, the statement said.
The protestors demanded the immediate release of Khurram Parvez and others arrested in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh.
“JKCCS maintains that his detention is a retaliatory measure against his courageous work in unearthing human rights abuses in Jammu Kashmir, the world’s most militarized zone. His illegal detention is part of the recent escalation of repressive measures, including nocturnal raids, arbitrary arrests and administrative detentions taken by the state in Jammu Kashmir to quell the on-going mass anti-India uprising,” the statement added.
