BEIJING, Dec 10 (APP): India’s persistent human rights violations especially in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have become an indelible stain on its global image, demanding urgent intervention from the international community.
This was stated by Prof. Cheng Xizhong, Senior Research Fellow at the Charhar Institute, a non-governmental Chinese think-tank on diplomacy and international studies based in Beijing.
In a statement, he said that the latest findings by UN special procedures experts, released in November 2025, have once again laid bare the systemic human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), casting a dark shadow over global human rights governance.
According to the report, Indian authorities have arbitrarily arrested and detained nearly 2,800 individuals, including journalists, students and human rights defenders, leveraging draconian laws such as the Public Safety Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act to justify indefinite detention.
Worse still, torture, custodial deaths, incommunicado detention and punitive demolitions have become endemic, while 8,000 social media accounts are blocked to suppress free speech—a blatant violation of fundamental liberties, he said.
Prof Cheng said that India’s 2019 revocation of Article 370 of the constitution, which stripped Kashmir’s special status, has exacerbated the crisis by attempting to alter the region’s demographic structure. Despite holding delayed legislative elections in 2024, the Modi administration reassigned key powers to a New Delhi-appointed official, undermining democratic autonomy promised by the Supreme Court.
The international community cannot remain silent. UN resolutions and human rights conventions mandate accountability. India must immediately release arbitrarily detained persons, restore communication and respect Kashmiris’ right to self-determination. Only through sincere dialogue and adherence to international law can lasting peace be achieved in this troubled region, he added.