Ather Zia (shadowbanned/banned in india) (@aziakashmir) 's Twitter Profile
Ather Zia (shadowbanned/banned in india)

@aziakashmir

Kashmiri. political anthropologist. poet. writer. activist. founder Kashmir Lit, author Resisting Disappearance. account shadow/banned. posting infrequently.

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Hind Khoudary (@hind_gaza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not only new evacuation orders but funerals are held here in Al Aqsa hospital. Women are crying with their eyes full of tears - men are trying to hold their tears hugging each other. Children are searching for water with their empty water gallons. A man on a wheel chair is

Noura Erakat (@4noura) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Devastating & overwhelming witness & investigations keep affirming the same thing: Israeli forces from the top to the root r targeting children to prevent the possibility of a Palestinian future. Let the racists bellow as much as they want, the rest of us must resist this #Gaza

Mohammad Alsaafin (@malsaafin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was Palestine’s first ever flag bearer at the Olympics, Majed Abu Maraheel, in Atlanta ‘96. Abu Maraheel was killed in Gaza last month. Unable to receive adequate care at Gaza’s destroyed hospitals, he died of kidney failure. These killings don’t figure in the death toll.

This was Palestine’s first ever flag bearer at the Olympics, Majed Abu Maraheel, in Atlanta ‘96. Abu Maraheel was killed in Gaza last month. Unable to receive adequate care at Gaza’s destroyed hospitals, he died of kidney failure.
These killings don’t figure in the death toll.
Free Khurram Campaign 2021 (@freekhurram2021) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Front Line Defenders statement marking five years since August 5, 2019, points to the reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in #Kashmir & the silencing of critical voices, and reiterates its demand to release Khurram Parvez & Irfan Mehraj frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-r…

.<a href="/FrontLineHRD/">Front Line Defenders</a> statement marking five years since August 5, 2019, points to the reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in #Kashmir &amp; the silencing of critical voices, and reiterates its demand to release Khurram Parvez &amp; Irfan Mehraj

frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-r…
Free Khurram Campaign 2021 (@freekhurram2021) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The deep wound this (Khurram's) incarceration has inflicted for communities that he cared for deeply cannot be put into words." - Mona Bhan, June 2024 #FreeKhurramParvez #FreeIrfanMehraj #EndReprisals #Kashmir

"The deep wound this (Khurram's) incarceration has inflicted for communities that he cared for deeply cannot be put into words."
- Mona Bhan, June 2024

#FreeKhurramParvez #FreeIrfanMehraj #EndReprisals #Kashmir
Free Khurram Campaign 2021 (@freekhurram2021) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today marks ONE THOUSAND DAYS of Khurram Parvez's incarceration -- a 1000 days since his many loved ones, the community of human rights defenders and survivors have been deprived of his powerful presence and guiding light! #FreeKhurramParvez

Today marks ONE THOUSAND DAYS of Khurram Parvez's incarceration -- a 1000 days since his many loved ones, the community of human rights defenders and survivors have been deprived of his powerful presence and guiding light! #FreeKhurramParvez
Free Khurram Campaign 2021 (@freekhurram2021) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Irfan Mehraj, along with two other journalists, has been awarded the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism award for the documentary "On Drugs - Kashmir's Heroin Epidemic" in Deutsche Welle. It is Day 525 of Irfan's incarceration! #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeIrfanMehraj

The Kashmiriyat (@thekashmiriyat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

66 percent of Jammu Kashmir residents Struggling with expenses amid declining income: Survey thekashmiriyat.co.uk/66-percent-of-…

Betwa Sharma (@betwasharma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In a terror case against Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez, jailed for >1000 days, NIA cites as evidence 2 reports on violence, torture & impunity of armed forces in J&K—in the public domain for yrs. This effectively criminalises human rights work in India article-14.com/post/how-the-c…

In a terror case against Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez, jailed for &gt;1000 days, NIA cites as evidence 2 reports on violence, torture &amp; impunity of armed forces in J&amp;K—in the public domain for yrs. This effectively criminalises human rights work in India article-14.com/post/how-the-c…
Kitaab Te Koshur (@kitaabtekoshur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What have I just read!!!!! "land of dreams" a dystopian short story by Ather Zia (shadowbanned/banned in india) is a must read. I remember the last time i read fiction about kashmir this good, it was "The Night of Broken Glass" by Feroz rather Anyways the link for the short story: sapiens.org/culture/kashmi…

Tasavvur Collective - تَصَوّر (@tasavvurcollect) 's Twitter Profile Photo

12) In the afterword to our special issue, "Writing Muslim Women in South Asia", Ather Zia (shadowbanned/banned in india) asks the pivotal question: "How does one write in a place where words are banned?" doi.org/10.1080/008564…