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Line 1: *'''Aasia''' (or '''Aasiya''') Jeelani''' (1974-2004) was a [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] journalist and human rights activist. After completing her studies in [[Srinagar]], [[Kashmir]] she worked for [[Agence France Presse]] (AFP) and then the [[Times of India]]. She set up the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Kashmiri Women's Initiative for Peace and Disarmament (KWIPD), editing the latter's newsletter. In 20 April 2004, Jeelani and other activists were monitoring elections when the car she was travelling in was blown up by an [[improvised explosive device]] and she was killed. She is remembered as a pioneering feminist journalist.
* Aasia Jeelani (Q94418289) ==Life== Aasia Jeelani was born on 9 February 1974, in [[Srinagar]], [[Kashmir]]. She was educated at the Presentation Convent Higher Secondary School in Srinagar then at [[Kashmir University]], where she studied a Ba in Science and a Ma in Journalism.<ref name="HRD Memorial">{{cite web |title=Aasia Jeelani |url=https://hrdmemorial.org/?hrdrecord=aasia-jeelani |website=HRD Memorial |access-date=12 September 2024}}</ref> She grew up during the [[insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]] and began to write about the human rights Jeelani set up the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and the Kashmiri Women's Initiative for Peace and Disarmament (KWIPD).<ref name="Tak" /> She was editor of a newsletter which the KWIPD published every three months called ''The Voices Unheard''.<ref name="HRD Memorial" /><ref name="Tak" /> | |||