India: Immediately release Irfan Mehraj – A call from civil society on the first anniversary of his continuing arbitrary detention

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India: Immediately release Irfan Mehraj – A call from civil society on the first anniversary of his continuing arbitrary detention

20 Mar 2024

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj. While on a professional assignment on 20 March 2023, Mehraj was summoned for questioning and arbitrarily detained by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Srinagar under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
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Index Number
ASA 20/7854/2024
Published in
United Kingdom

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