As the US President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit India on February 24, four influential US Senators have called for an assessment of the situation of human rights and religious freedom in the country, saying that hundreds of Kashmiris remain in preventive detention.
In a letter to the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dated February 12, the senators said that India has imposed the 'longest-ever internet shutdown by a democracy', disrupted access to medical care, business and education for seven million people.