JKJAAC Human Rights Cell Warns of Escalating Human Rights and Humanitarian Protection Crisis in Rawalakot, AJK
The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell has issued a new Human Rights Situation Update Report warning that the crisis in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir is moving from a human rights emergency into a wider humanitarian protection emergency.
6/14/20262 min read
Report alleges renewed crackdown at Dharake / Eidgah Ground, obstruction of medical access, missing persons, detentions, economic reprisals and blockade of essential supplies
Rawalakot / Muzaffarabad / Islamabad / London | 14 June 2026
The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell has issued a new Human Rights Situation Update Report warning that the crisis in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir is moving from a human rights emergency into a wider humanitarian protection emergency.
The report, dated 14 June 2026, focuses on Rawalakot, Dharake / Eidgah Ground, Kotli, Bagh, Palandri/Sudhnoti and affected areas. It builds on the JKJAAC Human Rights Cell baseline report of 13 June and incorporates new documentation from the JKJAAC Human Rights Team, public reporting and field updates received on the morning of 14 June.
According to the report, field updates allege that Pakistani Rangers and security forces began a fresh crackdown on peaceful sit-in participants at Dharake / Eidgah Ground, Rawalakot. Widely circulated social media videos reportedly show ambulances entering the Eidgah Ground area. Local social media reporting, including video footage described by sources, alleges large pools of blood on the ground, three further civilian deaths and at least eight injuries. The report stresses that these allegations require immediate independent verification, hospital confirmation, preservation of video evidence and access for human rights monitors.
The report also documents continuing concerns about missing persons, arbitrary detention, custodial mistreatment, denial or obstruction of medical access, alleged looting and property damage in Rawalakot, and the reported sealing of two further businesses in Kotli City: Mr Zafar Malik Jewellery Shop and Malik Yaqoob Kashmiri Crockery Store.
The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell further warns that field reports allege major entry points into AJK have been blocked, with food, life-saving medicines and essential goods obstructed. Rawalakot city and surrounding mountainous areas are reported to be increasingly cut off by security cordons and road closures.
“The situation in Rawalakot has reached a critical threshold. A peaceful civil-rights movement paused its Long March to save lives and create space for negotiations. Instead, field reports now allege renewed firing, shelling, blockade, denial of essential supplies, medical-access obstruction, arbitrary detentions, missing persons and economic reprisals,” the report states.
The JKJAAC Human Rights Cell calls on the Government of Pakistan and the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to immediately halt firing and shelling, open a humanitarian corridor, publish verified lists of the dead, injured, detained and missing, release peaceful detainees or produce them before courts, disclose the whereabouts of reported missing persons, preserve evidence and permit independent access to Rawalakot and affected areas.
The report also urges the United Nations, OHCHR, UN Special Procedures, international humanitarian organisations, diplomatic missions, UK Parliament, European Parliament, United States Congress, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ICRC and international media to intervene urgently.
The report concludes:
“The people gathered at Dharake / Eidgah Ground are not enemies. The injured are not criminals. The missing are not numbers. The dead are not evidence to be hidden. Families have a right to truth, dignity and justice.”
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