The Hurriyat Conference, formed in 1993 as an umbrella body of separatist groups advocating either Kashmir’s independence or its accession to Pakistan, was outlawed in 2019 for promoting secessionism and maintaining links with terrorism.

Amid crackdown on separatists, Mirwaiz drops Hurriyat chairman title from social media

India News: Hurriyat Conference was an amalgamation of 22 separatist organisations, out of which 12 have already severed all ties with it. Home Minister Amit Shah has been continuously sharing information about these separatist organisations

12 separatist organisations sever ties with Hurriyat Conference, declare commitment to India: Home Minister Amit Shah

India: Hurriyat leader’s shopping complex demolished in South Kashmir

India: NIA seals Hurriyat Conference head office in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar

Hardline Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani resigns from Hurriyat conference

Any attempt by Pakistan to engage with Hurriyat will not be taken lightly: India 

India summons Pak High Commissioner over foreign minister Qureshi's phone call to Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

The separatist camp, including both hardline and moderate factions of the Hurriyat Conference and the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), called for the complete shutdown

India: Strike called by separatists affects normal life in Kashmir

The raids were a part of the NIA's investigation of the terror funding case against the separatist leaders in Kashmir

NIA questions Syed Geelani's close aide over terror funding charges

The decision came after mounting pressure on them to relax the shutdown that had paralysed normal life in the strife-torn Valley

India: Separatists relax shutdown in Kashmir