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Life of Kashmiri Political Prisoners, Gender and the Carceral State

June 27, 11AM EDT
Online. Register at tinyurl.com/Kashmirseries

This panel analyses the carceral regime imposed in Kashmir by reflecting on political imprisonment, law, and resistance. Focusing on the recent life sentence of Asiya Andrabi, founder of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, the panelists will examine how dissent is transformed almost naturally into terrorism and criminality by deploying narrow security frames and legislation. Asiya Andrabi’s case will be analysed within broader patterns of detention of Kashmiris through preventive detention, enforced disappearances, and rampant use of Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), as well as limits on advocacy. The panel will illustrate how incarceration reshapes family life, lived experience, political memory, gender justice, affective worlds, and public discourse in Kashmir in the hope of opening conversations on the human, legal, and political costs and consequences of imprisonment.

Panelists
Ahmed Bin Qasim, Asiya Andrabi’s son & writer
Ather Zia, Professor & Author
Mirza Saaib Bég, Lawyer
Moderator: Suchitra Vijayan, Barrister & Author

Co-hosted by:
Just Peace Advocates, South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), South Asia Solidarity Group, Kashmir Law and Justice Project (KLJP), Kashmir Scholars Consultative Advocacy Network (KSCAN)

Part of a Panel Series: Kashmiri Political Prisoners and the Carceral State

This panel series aims to examine political imprisonment in the context of the expanding carceral state in Kashmir. The goal is to create a much-needed public educational resource – an archive of expertise and testimony on political imprisonment. Discussions will focus on incarceration, surveillance, and ‘counter-terror’ legislation and how political life, civil society, advocacy, journalism, memory, and the everyday experience are being reshaped in Kashmir. … Tentative panel titles/dates TBA.

Panel 2: Human Rights Activism and the Surveillance State
Panel 3: Journalism, Knowledge, and Criminalization: The Case of Irfan Mehraj
Panel 4: Political Leadership, and Carceral Sovereign

Registration for Panel 1: Life of Kashmiri Political Prisoners, Gender and the Carceral State

On 18 June 2026, ahead of Khurram Parvez’s birthday, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), in the framework of the Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders, published a solidarity statement calling on his release, signed by 92 human rights and civil society organizations from around the world, and 80 individuals, including former UN Special Rapporteurs David Kaye, Fernand de Varennes and Fionnuala Ni Aolain, former US Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues and Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Stephen J. Rapp, and FIDH President Alexis Deswaef.

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