No Normalcy In Kashmir, Says Women’s Fact-Finding Team

‘Boys as young as 14 or 15 are taken away & tortured, some for 45 days’
Refuting government claims of a return to normalcy in Kashmir, a group of women activists, who visited the Valley last week, said boys and young men were being snatched from their homes by security forces, with the shutdown also taking its toll on women, students, doctors and patients.

“The Army pounces on young boys. When fathers go to rescue their children, they are made to deposit money, anywhere between ₹20,000 to ₹60,000,” a woman resident told the fact-finding team, which consisted of activists from the Left-affiliated National Federation of Indian Women and Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan, as well as former Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed of the Muslim Women’s Forum.

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