JKJAAC Human Rights Cell Issues Human Rights Situation Report on Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir

The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell has issued a detailed Human Rights Situation Report on Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu & Kashmir, covering the period 5–12 June 2026. The report documents serious concerns including reported killings, mass arrests, communications blackout, denial of medical access, missing persons, suppression of press freedom, economic reprisals, and the criminalisation of peaceful civic mobilisation.

6/13/20262 min read

JKJAAC Human Rights Cell Issues Human Rights Situation Report on Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Date: 13 June 2026

Issued by: JKJAAC Human Rights Cell

Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee — JKJAAC

The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell has issued a detailed Human Rights Situation Report on Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir, covering the period 5–12 June 2026. The report documents a grave and escalating human rights situation following the suspension of internet and mobile services, mass arrests, reported lethal use of force, criminalisation of peaceful civic mobilisation, denial of medical access, reported missing persons, suppression of press freedom, and allegations of economic reprisals against civil-rights leaders and their families.

The report, titled “Stop the Violence, Restore the Truth”, brings together verified public reporting, human rights documentation, local journalist accounts, family-linked testimony and credible allegations requiring urgent independent verification. It records that more than 60,000 peaceful Long March participants reached Rawalakot after beginning their journey from Chumb, Bhimber, on 9 June 2026, despite arrests, roadblocks, violence and loss of life.

The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell notes that the JKJAAC Core Committee paused the Long March in Rawalakot to prevent further bloodshed and to create space for meaningful dialogue. This responsible step must now be met with immediate action by the authorities to stop the use of force, restore communications, provide medical access, account for the missing, release detainees or produce them before courts, preserve evidence, and open credible negotiations.

Key Concerns Highlighted in the Report

· excessive and lethal use of force;

· criminalisation of peaceful assembly and association;

· communications blackout and obstruction of emergency response;

· missing persons, removal of bodies and alleged coercion of families;

· suppression of press freedom;

· economic reprisals, sealing of businesses and alleged looting in curfewed areas.

The report calls for an independent, impartial and public inquiry into all deaths, injuries, disappearances, denial of medical access, arrests, body handling, communications restrictions, and use of force during the reporting period. It also urges the authorities to publish verified lists of the dead, injured, detained and missing persons, return bodies to families without coercive conditions, restore internet and mobile services, and end the use of anti-terror laws against peaceful civic mobilisation.

The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell is submitting this report to United Nations mechanisms, international human rights organisations, parliamentary human rights committees, diplomatic missions, international media and civil society partners for urgent attention and action.

Urgent Appeal

As the report states:

“The dead are entitled to dignity. The injured are entitled to treatment. The detained are entitled to due process. Families are entitled to the truth. The missing must be accounted for.”

The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell appeals to all human rights defenders, democratic institutions, journalists, legal bodies and members of the Kashmiri diaspora to read, circulate and act upon this report.

The time for international attention is now.

The time for protection is now.

The time for truth is now.