WINNER OF MARTIN ENNALS AWARD
Khurram Parvez kashmiri activist jailed, he has won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world's most prestigious human rights prizes, along with two other campaigners from Chad and Venezuela, with the jury hailing their “courage”.
The two other are winners Delphine Djiraibe, first women lawyer from chad, and Feliciano Reyan, right activist and an advocate for access to health for marginalized LGBTQ people in Venezuela.
Between the 2023 laureates the common denominator… is their courage, passion, and determination to help and bring the voice of the voiceless to the international level, along with they got life-threatening, challenges they face,” on Thursday, Hans Thoolen prize jury chairman said in a statement.
“These three exceptional laureates who have each dedicated their more than 30 years in building movements to brought justice for victims or delivered medicines to the marginalized, we are particularly proud to honor them,” he said. “In their own communities they have made human rights for thousands of people.”
On February 16, in Geneva, the award ceremony will take place, the organizers said.
Parvez is the founder of the respected Jammu and Kashmir coalition of civil society, He will not be able to attend the ceremony. However, since November 2021 he has been detained by the India under a stringent “terrorism” law that without trial identity it allows people to be held.
At the age of 13 according to the organizers, the 45-year old was found indulge into the non-violent activism, when he was witnessed during a demonstration while shooting his grandfather in Indian-administered Kashmir.
US-based Time Magazine, last year in May named Parvez as one of the 100 most influential people of 2022.
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