Video: KRR Report launch, August 2020

Kashmir Reading Room released a report ‘(Dis)Integration at Gunpoint’ marking a year since the de-operationalisation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. The online launch of this report was hosted by South Asia Solidarity Group in London on August 4, 2020, at 8.30 PM IST (4 PM BST). Prof. Hameeda Nayeem, Independent filmmaker, Sanjay Kak, and Human Rights lawyer, Parvez Imroz were the panelists at the launch. Congratulating the KRR team for the “comprehensive” Yearly Report (August 2019- August 2020), Prof. Hameeda Nayeem said that “It is the first draft of the history of the last 1 year but it goes much beyond that. It will be of great value not only to the common person but also to researchers.”

The report covers recent changes in Domicile law, amendments of laws affecting the transfer of state land to non-state subjects and corporate entities, and mining rights. It also covers developments in Constitutional Courts concerning the amendment to Article 370, treatment of PSA petitions, Habeas Corpus litigation, and media petitions in the last year. The report also includes perspectives from minorities and voices from Ladakh, Jammu, and the Kashmir valley. Additionally, it provides an overview of the human rights violations, curbs on freedom of the press, repression of Kashmiri journalists, and disenfranchisement of Kashmiris that is still underway. The full report is available here.