Pakistan, July 24 -- A prominent Kashmiri human rights activist and a renowned journalist have been released on bail after years of imprisonment on allegations of financing terrorism in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez and independent journalist Irfan Mehraj were arrested in 2021 and 2023 respectively, under India's terror laws. Despite their release from a New Delhi jail late Wednesday, both remain under tight court-imposed restrictions as the country's federal counterterror seeks to reverse the ruling.

The Indian government has increasingly cracked down against rights activists, journalists and dissidents in Kashmir under stringent anti-terror laws, particularly after August 2019, when India scr...