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‘Baseless, unfounded’: India on UN body statement on Khurram Parvez’s arrest https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-united-nations-rights-body-khurram-parvez-arrest-7652198/  
🔴 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

the Indian government on Thursday called the statement “baseless and unfounded” and said that the “arrest and subsequent detention” was done “entirely as per provisions of law”. “It also betrays a complete lack of understanding on the part of the OHCHR of the security challenges faced by India from cross-border terrorism and its impact on the most fundamental human right ‘the Right to Life’ of our citizens including in Jammu and Kashmir.”    

Bagchi, while replying to queries regarding the statement, said, “Referring to proscribed terrorist organisations as ‘armed groups’ demonstrates a clear bias on the part of OHCHR. As a democratic country, with an abiding commitment to promote and protect the human rights of its citizens, India takes all necessary steps to counter cross border terrorism.”

OHCHR, on Wednesday, had expressed concern over the detention and urged the government to “fully safeguard” his rights. The OHCHR had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

“We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville had said in a statement. 

OHCHR, on Wednesday, had expressed concern over the detention and urged the government to “fully safeguard” his rights. The OHCHR had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

“We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville had said in a statement.

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Is UAPA Being Abused By The State To Suppress Individual Freedom? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAD5S9yxSw Nov 19, 2021

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar - November 10, 2021: Ravish Kumar asks whether various stringent laws are being passed only to suppress individual freedom of citizens and for the state to exercise more control over its citizens. Shyam Meera Singh, a journalist from Tripura along with several others have been booked by the Tripura police under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. According to reports, Singh was booked for tweeting "Tripura is burning". UAPA, NSA, PASA, NDPS are some of the acts which make it difficult for the accused to obtain a bail and many of these cases have been quashed by the courts. (Audio in Hindi)