Free Khurram -- Human Rights Advocate Detained on Way to UN

Human Rights Activist, Khurram Parvez, was detained on September 16, 2016 on his way to 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. Khurram's arrests comes amidst widespread protests that started in July, in which 82 civilians have been killed and 11,000 wounded. Khurram Parvez, who was en route to brief the UN on human rights violations in Kashmir, is currently being detained under the Public Safety Act. We discuss the campaign to Free Khurram with Ather Zia, Kashmiri scholar and human rights advocate.  And we hear a 2011 interview with Khurram Parvez. This interview first aired on KPFA's APEX Express.