nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221231-001553-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221230s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221231-001553-0 doi eng 342 23 Justice Project, India Author aut Under Black Skies - The Silencing of Critical Voices in Jammu and Kashmir Justice Project, India Verfassungsblog 2022-12-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Since the Indian state unilaterally abrogated the autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in August 2019, human rights defenders (HRDs) have been confronted with an unprecedented closing of civic spaces, forcing them to restrict or stop their engagement. While HRDs have been subjected to state repression for more than 30 years since the onset of the 1989 insurgency in J&K, the developments in 2019 mark a turning point, both in strategy and methods employed by the Indian state. CC BY-SA 4.0 Human Rights Kashmir Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/under-black-skies/ raw object