AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

a continuing crime
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Manila, 15 September 2016 - AFAD strongly condemns the measures taken by India against AFAD’s Chairperson, Mr. Khurram Parvez.
 
Mr. Parvez is a Kashmiri human rights defender, who is also the Program Coordinator of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS). Yesterday, on September 14, 2016, he was prevented from leaving the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, and travel to Geneva, Switzerland, where he was going to attend the 33 Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

 

 

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