J&K: Human rights defender Khurram Parvez released from jail and detained again
from a district jail and again detained by cops at Kupwara Police station.
As soon as he was released from the jail, a police party took him to Kupwara Police station, reports said.
Khurram was arrested by the Kashmir Police last Friday without any formal arrest orders and lodged him at Kotibagh Police Station in Srinagar.
Parvez was scheduled to attend the 33rd UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva to brief UN bodies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and foreign governments on the "atrocities committed by Indian state forces in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly over the last two months."
“We all are unaware, why he was again arrested as court already issued order to release him, it is total humiliation of government and security agencies,” said a colleague of Khurram.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) said that the police have taken Parvez to the Kupwara police station and continue to detain him“in absolute disregard for the court order."
“The police must immediately release Khurram Parvez as, once again, he appears to be in imminent danger as he continues in police custody,” the Srinagar based rights defender group demanded.
(reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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