Parvez Imroz

Parvez Imroz is a Kashmiri human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist in Srinagar, the capital of the Jammu and Kashmir.

He is founder and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) that works to build local alliances between Kashmiri civil society groups. He is also convener of International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir alongside Angana Chatterji, Gautam Navlakha and Zaheer-Ud-Din.[1] He was awarded the eleventh Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize by Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France and the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE).[2]

He has filed thousands of habeas corpus actions on behalf of families who claimed their relatives had vanished while in the custody of the Indian security forces. He is the man who has discovered the phenomenon of mass graves in J&K.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir
  2. ↑ Parvez IMROZ: Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize 2006
  3. ↑ The Guardian, The mass graves of Kashmir, published 9 July 2012
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