Gautam Navlakha

Gautam Navlakha
Gautam Navlakha, 04 August 2017
Residence	New Delhi
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Editorial consultant of economic and political weekly
Organization	People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi
Known for	Human rights, civil liberties and democratic rights activism

Gautam Navlakha (Hindi pronunciation: [ɡɔːt̪ m nʋlkʰaː]) is a civil liberties,democratic, and human rights activist; and a journalist. He is engaged in the longstanding activism by the People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi as a veteran activist. He is also an editorial consultant of the Economic and Political Weekly. He resides in New Delhi.

Navlakha has worked as a secretary of the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), and has also been a convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir. He has also worked in Kashmir, and in the recent times, his focus of work has been the areas of Chhattisgarh which are in the Maoists' influence.

Navlakha was denied entry to Kashmir after the protests in Kashmir during 2010, but in December 2011, he was in Srinagar to join the activists of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian Administered Kashmir and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, who had composed a report titled "Alleged Perpetrators – Stories of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir" from police records, judicial, quasi-judicial and government records accusing 3 brigadiers, 9 colonels, 3 lieutenant colonels, 78 majors and 25 captains of the Indian Army, and 37 senior officials of Indian Paramilitary of murder, kidnapping, rape, enforced disappearance and torture. He also addressed a press conference at Srinagar, revealing that the report has been passed on to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the Prime Minister of India, so that those responsible for the crimes be punished.