Shabir Shah
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Shabir Ahmad Shah is the founder and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party
. Shah has been fighting for the rights of Kashmiris for over forty years and has spent twenty-six in prison. He is a former Amnesty International
prisoner of conscience and is widely known as the "Nelson Mandela
of Kashmir
".
Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party
Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party is a separatist political party launched by Shabir Shah on May 25, 1998. JKDFP called for tripartite negotiations between India, Pakistan and Kashmir....
. Shah has been fighting for the rights of Kashmiris for over forty years and has spent twenty-six in prison. He is a former Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
prisoner of conscience and is widely known as the "Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
of Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
".