Kashmir's Torture Trail
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Synopsis
The dark side of India’s brutal rule

Lawyer Parvez Imroz has never filed a divorce or defended a thief. Instead, this veteran advocate has spent his entire legal career, dressed in a grey morning suit and working pro-bono in the higgledy-piggledy Indian mountain state of Kashmir, pressed up against the towering Himalayas. Penniless but determined, Imroz has sacrificed everything to keep the Indian authorities accountable in a place where, unseen by most of the world, an insurgency has rumbled on for 23 years, claiming an estimated 70,000 lives. In 2010, workaholic Imroz - with his marriage in tatters, and his children fearing for their lives, uncovered a network of mass graves strewn across the forests and rice paddies. Over 4,000 bodies have been found to date, which might well be some of the 10,000 Kashmiris who have vanished and been taken into custody. Last year - as new uprisings by Kashmiri youth saw pitched battles fought between stone throwing teenagers and the Indian security forces, firing live rounds and tear-gas - multi-British Academy and Emmy award-winning director, Jezza Neumann, began to follow Imroz as he turned his attention to an even more incendiary project, torture perpetrated by the Indian security forces themselves, in this, the most militarised region in the world.

Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
HD
Genre
Crime
Subgenre
Factual
Producer
TRUE VISION PRODUCTIONS LTD
Press
"**** - utterly harrowing, utterly essential reportage"
Phil Harrison- Time Out "Heartbreaking documentary paints a damning picture of Kashmir"
Mail on Sunday "This powerful film follows local civil rights lawyer Parvez Imroz, who’s risked his life standing up to the armed might of the world’s largest democracy."
Sunday Telegraph "Jezza Neumann's findings are shocking"
Sunday Times "the Indian state of Kashmir is in danger of being forgotten."
Daily Telegraph
Ratings

Kashmir's Torture Trail first broadcast on Channel 4 (UK) at 11:10pm on Tuesday 10th July 2012. The one-off documentary special achieved a viewer rating of 473,000 and a 5.10% market share. This easily exceeded the average for the slot which sits at 372,200 / 4.37% market share.