NEW DELHI: Delhi airport authorities barred a prominent Kashmiri activist Wednesday from flying out of India despite holding a valid visa, a move his group described as an attempt to deny human rights in the violence-hit region. Khurram Pervez, coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), was on his way to Switzerland when immigration officials detained and blocked him from boarding his flight at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport. He was scheduled to attend a UN Human Rights Council session from September 14-24 in Geneva, where he was expected to brief officials on the ongoing situation in Kashmir - an area that has been reeling from almost daily protests and violence. Authorities "told (Pervez) that due to orders from the Intelligence Bureau, he cannot travel to Geneva". "It appears that Khurram Parvez is not being allowed to travel because he has been highlighting violations of human rights," Parvez Imroz, president of JKCCS, said in a statement. "The Indian State seeks to isolate the people of Kashmir at all costs, and disallowing human rights activists access to the UN is a part of this attempt to isolate and ensure impunity for violence and denial of human rights." More than 80 people have been killed since July 8 when a young separatist leader was shot dead by Indian soldiers, making it one of the deadliest bouts of violence in decades. Both India and neighbouring Pakistan lay claim to the whole of the Himalayan territory, which has been divided between the two since they separated seven decades ago. The two countries, which are both now nuclear powers, have twice gone to war over the territory and accuse each other of stoking violence. UPDATE: 15.09.2016 Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a prominent human rights activist, a day after he was barred from travelling to Switzerland to participate in a session of the UN Human Rights Council. Khurram Parvez, the chairperson of Asian Federation Against involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), was arrested at his home in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, late on Thursday, police said. On Wednesday, immigration officials at New Delhi's international airport barred Parvez from boarding a plane to Geneva despite him having a valid visa and letter of invitation from the UN body. Authorities "told[Pervez] that due to orders from the Intelligence Bureau, he cannot travel to Geneva", Parvez Imroz, the president of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, said in a statement. "It appears that Khurram Parvez is not being allowed to travel because he has been highlighting violations of human rights." Parvez's arrest comes as the divided Himalayan region is in the midst of some of most widespread anti-India protests in recent years. Thousands of people have been protesting against Indian rule in Kashmir almost daily since the killing of a young separatist commander in a gun battle with Indian soldiers on July 8. Since then, at least 82 people have been killed and more than 11,000 wounded, including over 100 blinded by pellet injuries. Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both claim the territory in full. Several separatist groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers - currently numbering around 500,000 deployed in the territory - demanding independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting. UPDATE: 22 September 2016 On 20 September 2016, the Sessions Court has order to quash Khurram Parvez detention. However, on 21 September 2016, has been taken at 11 PM by police personnel out of Kothi Bagh Police Station and brought to Jammu to be detained at the Kot Bhalwal jail, 300 kilometers away from his family and legal counsel. His legal team has been officially informed by SP Sheikh Faisal that he is being detained under the Public Safety Act, but they have not been provided any orders, warrants or grounds for detention. This morning, his lawyers moved the acting Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, questioning his continued detention despite the Sessions Court order. The police was ordered to submit a report tomorrow. UPDATE: 2 December Authorities in Indian-Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on Wednesday freed a prominent rights activist, who had been detained for two and a half months, after a court ruled his arrest was illegal. Khurram Parvez, 39, was released from prison nearly a week after a court in the region's main city of Srinagar ordered him freed, saying that authorities had abused their powers and arrested him arbitrarily. "Khurram Parvez was formally released from police custody... He was set at liberty after 76 days of incarceration, following the quashing of his preventive detention by the High Court," Parvez's group, the Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), said in a brief statement. Indian police arrested Parvez in September at the peak of deadly protests against Indian rule of the territory. The territory has been roiled by unrest with more than 90 people killed since July 8 when a young militant leader was shot dead by Indian soldiers, making it one of the deadliest bouts of violence in decades. Rush to build bunkers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir as fears grow Parvez was accused of being a threat to peace and was imprisoned under the Public Safety Act, which allows authorities to detain anyone for up to two years without trial. His group has campaigned for decades against the controversial security law and has exposed alleged widespread rights abuses by security forces deployed in the region, who are granted legal impunity. Many international rights bodies, including UN Rapporteurs, had campaigned for his release. Parvez said he was happy to be back with his family and vowed to continue defending human rights. "I won't let this difficulty make me bitter, instead my resolve for peace and justice has got strengthened," he said in a statement posted on his personal Facebook page. Before his imprisonment authorities at the airport in New Delhi barred Parvez from boarding an aircraft to Geneva where he was scheduled to address a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council. He was arrested on his return home to Srinagar from Delhi.