Khurram Parvez is an internationally recognized human rights activist based in Srinigar, Kashmir, who has been in prison since his arrest under India’s draconian anti-terrorism legislation in November 2021. UN and Human rights groups have demanded his release calling his detention an act of reprisal for his human rights work, and an attempt to silence him and Kashmiri civil society as a whole. In 2023, Parvez was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.