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Daughters of Kashmir
March 25, 2026
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The sentencing of Kashmiri activist Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment, along with 30-year sentences for Fehmida Sofi and Nahida Nasreen, is not about justice. It is another clear example of how the Indian state is using its legal system to suppress dissent in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Andrabi is the founder of Dukhtaran-i-Millat, which translates to “Daughters of the Nation”, an organisation that has long represented Kashmiri political sentiment. That women associated with such a movement are being handed extreme sentences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act shows how far the crackdown has gone. Political expression is being recast as terrorism, and dissent is being treated as a crime.
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This is not an isolated case. It follows a consistent pattern where Kashmiri leaders and activists are jailed under sweeping anti-terror laws, often without due process, proper legal recourse, or even adequate medical care. Names like Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah and Masarat Alam are part of the same story: a leadership systematically removed from public life through incarceration.
The use of courts in this manner strips the system of any credibility. When laws are weaponised to silence political voices, the line between justice and repression disappears. These cases are not about security; they are about control.
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For Kashmiris, the message is clear. Even peaceful advocacy for their internationally recognised right to self-determination will be met with force. But such actions have never resolved political disputes. They only deepen them.
On both sides of the border, this action was condemned. Kashmir politicians under Indian oppression and those living in Azad Kashmir echoed the same words: This is not justice. It is persecution, carried out under the cover of law.
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