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Dossier
The human rights record, category by category
Fourteen files. Each states what is alleged, who documented it, what the Government of India says, and what has been done about it — which is, in almost every case, nothing. They are not ranked; they are ordered so the load-bearing ones come first.
How each file is built. The allegation, then the document it comes from, then the accountability outcome. Where the Government of India has published a contradicting figure, it appears beside the civil-society figure rather than after it.
Several of these files quote testimony describing torture and sexual violence. Those pages carry a warning at the top. Nothing on this site uses a photograph of a dead or injured person.
- Zeroprosecutions sanctioned under AFSPA in 36 yearsImpunity
Section 7 of the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act requires the central government’s permission before a soldier can be prosecuted. On the UN’s most recent assessment it had never once been given. Everything else in this dossier is downstream of that.
- 432case studies of torture, of which 301 victims were civiliansTorture
The 550-page APDP/JKCCS archive: 49 people died during or after torture, 222 were left with lasting health problems, and only 27 of the 432 cases ever reached a human rights commission.
- 8,000–10,000men estimated disappeared since 1990The disappeared
APDP’s estimate, named as theirs. Alongside it, an Indian state institution’s own findings: 2,730 graves confirmed, and 574 of 2,156 bodies examined in north Kashmir identified as local Kashmiris.
- 1,253people blinded in thirty monthsPellet shotguns
A weapon classed as non-lethal and deployed for crowd control. The figure is a Srinagar hospital’s own caseload, reported by the UN — and it counts only those who lost their sight.
- ~2,800detained after the April 2025 Pahalgam attackDetention without trial
Administrative detention without charge under the Public Safety Act, and years in custody under the UAPA before charges are framed. Fresh orders are issued before a court’s release can take effect.
- 4.3×the gap between two counts of the same year’s civilian deadKillings
JKCCS counted about 160 civilians killed in 2018; India’s Home Ministry counted 37. Both figures appear in the same paragraph of the same UN report. Plus the massacres that produced no convictions.
- 213days with no internet at allThe blackout
The longest shutdown then imposed by any democracy, beginning the day Article 370 was removed. The people whose constitutional status was being altered could not telephone a relative or reach a lawyer.
- ~23women gang-raped at Kunan Poshpora, February 1991Sexual violence
Closed within eight months by a two-day panel of journalists with, as the UN records, no legal standing. Thirty-five years on, nobody has been tried.
- 25books banned and bookshops raided, August 2025The press
Journalists held 658 days and 2,010 days without conviction; 8,000 social media accounts blocked; and the website of the organisation that documented all of this no longer resolves.
- 45%of adults showing symptoms of significant mental distressMental health
Nearly 1.8 million people, measured by Médecins Sans Frontières across 5,600 households. 19% show symptoms of probable PTSD. This is what the other ten files did to everyone else.
- >90%of Pakistan’s crops watered by rivers that flow through occupied KashmirWater
The Indus, Jhelum and Chenab carry 80% of the Indus system’s flow and pass through the territory India administers. In April 2025 India held the 65-year-old treaty governing them “in abeyance”. This is why the territory is not let go.
- 25+people from Kashmir selected as targets of Israeli-made Pegasus spywareSurveillance
Forensic examination confirmed Pegasus activity on the phone of one Kashmiri figure between February 2018 and January 2019, and signs of targeting on another in 2019. India is the largest single customer of Israel’s arms industry.
- 96%in Srinagar said their main problem was that there is no workThe life they don’t get to have
Not azadi, not India, not Pakistan — work. What seventy-eight years of other people’s ambitions has cost the people who actually live there.
- 35Athe constitutional article that locked who could own land and claim residence — removedChanging the map
New domicile rules and amended land laws rewrote who may claim residence and buy land — and punitive demolitions, which the UN calls collective punishment, displace families one household at a time.