Indian forces martyred 84 Kashmiris in 2025
7488 including Hurriyat activists, youth, doctors, journalists detained in IIOJK
Srinagar: The year 2025 brought no respite for the Kashmiri victims of Indian state terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, that killed 84 Kashmiris, including three woman and seven young boys.
According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, 34 of the martyrs were killed in fake encounters and in custody.
The report said, the killing by the Indian army, Rashtriya Rifles, Border Security Force, paramilitary and police personnel rendered 11 women widowed and 33 children orphaned during the year. It said that Indian forces destroyed 41 properties mostly residential houses.
The report pointed out 7488 people, including Hurriyat activists, youth, doctors, Ulema, women and journalists were detained and several of them booked under black laws, Public Safety Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in different Indian and IIOJK jails.
The authorities did not allow people to offer prayers on the auspicious occasion of Jumat-ul-Wida”, Shab-e-Qadar, Eidul Fiter and Eidul Azha at historic Jamia Masjid, and Eidgah Srinagar of the territory.
The report said that in the month of December 2025 alone, the Indian forces arrested 263 Kashmiris during 480 cordon and search operations in the territory.
Economic repression remains a core component of India’s strategy in the occupied territory. A collapsing industrial sector, destruction of homes, seizure of 213 properties in 2025 alone, mass termination of Muslim government employees, and tight surveillance and control over natural resources and taxes have deepened economic despair. Youth unemployment—among the highest in IIOJK—has reached crisis levels, particularly for youth and women. The number of registered unemployed youth has risen to 357,328 as of November 2025, underscoring the persistent employment challenges in the occupied territory.
The report pointed out that over three thousand persons including Hurriyat leaders, APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Adv Main Abdul Qayoom, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Dr Shafi Shariyatee, and human rights defender Khurrum Parvaiz continue to remain in detention in Delhi’s Tihar Jail and other jails in fake cases and political vendetta.
The report noted that since August 5, 2019, when the Indian Hindu nationalist BJP government illegally and militarily revoked the special status under Articles 370 and 35A in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Indian troops, paramilitary forces, and police personnel have martyred 1,048 Kashmiris to date.
It added that over the past 37 years, a total of 96,163 Kashmiris have been killed by Indian bullets in the internationally recognized disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, occupied by India since October 1947.
Kashmir today remains not merely a highly militarized and disputed territory, but an active site of structural oppression—where human rights are suspended, voices silenced, and the basic dignity of an entire population denied.
Indian forces continue to violate the Universal Declara
tion of Human Rights (UDHR) in IIOJK, where every fundamental right remains suspended under violent military occupation.
India maintains a significant military presence in the region, which human rights organizations and critics describe as an oppressive apparatus, operating under laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)—laws widely seen as instruments of suppression against dissent .
