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“At least a dozen patients have died because they could not call an ambulance or could not reach the hospital on time, the majority of them with heart-related disease,’’ said Sadaat, a doctor in a Kashmir hospital who did not want to be identified by his full name out of fear or reprisals.

UP refuses to reveal details of Kashmiri prisoners.Authorities Refuse to Reveal Details of People From J&K Detained in UP Jails Under RTI

Srinagar, Wed 16 Oct 2019 :Mehraj-ud-din Wani’s parents traveled around 1,000km (620 miles) by bus to visit him in Agra central jail last week. “You have no idea how I arranged the money for the travel,” his father, Ghulam Nabi Wani, said. “He has changed so much physically, he has become weak and he shivers while talking.” Wani was arrested on 9 August, during protests in Srinagar against the Indian government.Back in Kashmir, people lived in fear, said another relative. “Anybody can stop you, anybody can take [arrest] you,” he said. “There is no accountability. The moment you speak out you are in jail.”

Oct 16, 2019 Srinagar: Indain police arrested Hurriyet leader, Hayat Ahmad Bhatnown as Hayat Dar  on Wednesday in Srinagar. Bhat, also known as Hayat Dar was arrested in an early morning raid by  police was previously affiliated with the Muslim League and has been booked twice in the past under the black law Public Safety Act. So far, 16 FIRs have been filed against him in police made cases. 

Srinagar, October 09, 2019: The ongoing lockdown has cost the region’s economy more than $1 billion in two months, BBC said quoting industry experts.  Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry estimates the shutdown has already cost the region more than $1.4bn (£1.13bn), and thousands of jobs have been lost and according to Shiekh Ashiq, president of the chamber of industry ,"More than 50,000 jobs have been lost in the carpet industry alone," What's more, the streets are deserted and devoid of the tourist business which had supported up to 700,000 people. 
The BBC in its report on the prevailing situation in the occupied territory says, “Two months on, the situation is far from normal. Internet and mobile phone connections remain suspended, public transport is not easily available, and most businesses are shut …………. There is also a shortage of skilled labour, as some 400,000 migrants have left since the lockdown began.”

New Dehli, 9 2019 : The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged India to release political prisoners, end crackdown operations and restore internet and mobile communication in occupied Kashmir. It has been over two months since the Indian government revoked constitutional autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two centrally administered territories and yet abusive restrictions, including a lockdown on internet and mobile phone services, remain, the HRW

Srinagar, 06 Oct 2019 : The lockdown in Kashmir has reached over 64 days with the abrogation of Article 370, which gave special powers to the Jammu and Kashmir, there are several reports of mass detentions, torture and molestation by the Indian forces . There are stories of molestation and eve teasing by Indian forces narrated by women. Some of them said they were filmed as they walked down the streets by the men in uniform, while many others reported the use of cuss words and threats of sexual assault.

 
October 06, 201 9 : A US Senate panel has attached an amendment to a finance bill that requires India to end its lockdown and curfew in occupied Kashmir and fully restore communications links to the Kashmir valley.  
The amendment, attached to the Foreign Appropriations Act for 2020, was moved in the Senate Appropriations Committee, and is seen as the first step towards US legislative action against India over its Aug 5 annexation of the occupied lands.

Srinagar,  Oct 1, 2019:In Sumbal in Bandipora, North Kashmir . grandson of Zuna Begum, named Mohsin Shahnawaz Ganai, the only one in the family who earned a living as a quarry worker, is no longer at home. Zuna sits in a corner of the staircase, weeping. “I have no one. Shahnawaz used to say, ‘Why do you cry? 

AP Oct 4, 2019 :The lockdown and communications blackout in occupied Kashmir entered its 61st day on Friday. Frustration, anger and fear have been growing in occupied Kashmir since August 5, when the Hindu nationalist-led government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status and imposed a curfew and a communications blackout.