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For more than two months, nearly 8 million Kashmiris have been blocked off from the world. India cut all communication, including landline/mobile phones, and internet. Phone service partially returned last week, but there is still no access to the web.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-two-month-blackout-cellphones-start-to-ring-again-in-kashmir/2019/10/14/a7b163e0-ee51-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html …

Armed Indian forces are detaining boys as young as 9 in midnight raids. Many detained are known to "disappear,” allegedly killed in custody and dumped in mass graves. Women and girls report being molested/raped during such raids.https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/kashmir-caged-fact-finding-report …

The Indian military is doing this by enforcing a controversial 1978 law called the “Public Safety Act (PSA)," which allows the government to detain a person for up to 2 years w/o trial, even if the person(s) may have committed no criminal offense at all.https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/explained-the-jammu-kashmir-public-safety-act/article29438694.ece …

100s of politicians are under house arrest. Some based in the Hindu-majority Jammu region were released, but most in the Muslim-majority Kashmir region remain imprisoned. *ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE TODAY* & opposition leaders call them a "joke on democracy".https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49996399 …