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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 …

Unofficial curfews are in place for Kashmiri civilians while the Indian government continues to spread misinformation and lies to hide their inhumane treatment. The article below is an example of such propaganda.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/no-restrictions-in-jammu-and-kashmir-entire-world-supports-abrogation-of-article-370-amit-shah/articleshow/71359603.cms …