*JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC)Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC)** strongly reactagainst India over the new Occupied Kashmir law.*
*IPHRC has condemned India’s newly promulgated domicile law and has calledfor the country to put an end to human rights abuses in India OccupiedKashmir (IoK).*
Under the new domicile law, all Indian citizens who have lived inIndia-occupied Kashmir for 15 years or more can declare it as theirdomicile, thus paving the way for them to get permanent resident status aswell as jobs in the territory.
In a statement on Twitter yesterday, the IPHRC denounced the “illegal”move, saying it is “an attempt to alter demographic and geographic statusof Indian-occupied Kashmir”.
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The statement noted that the law violates internationally recognised humanrights and humanitarian laws, such as the 4th Geneva Convention and thoseset by the OIC and the United Nations Security Council.
