As per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all people have the right to speak on matters that affect their lives. Kashmiris have been consistently denied that right, with increased intensity since 5 August 2019. In picture, Kashmiri boys being grabbed by Indian police during the 2010 protests against Indian rule. File photo, by Abid Bhat. We, the Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network, are an interdisciplinary group of scholars of various nationalities engaged in research on the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. We write to seek your immediate intervention in the unacceptable political situation precipitated by the illegal and malafide amendments made by India to the domicile law that obtains in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. These changes in the domicile law pave the way for deliberate demographic change in the region—an issue Kashmiris have increasingly raised since the Government of India unilaterally abrogated the treaty-based,…

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