Sheikh Showkat Hussain;[1] born on 5 February 1954 is a Kashmiri political analyst and a prominent scholar of human rights and international law, he has authored several books on the Kashmir conflict.

[2] Sheikh Showkat completed his bachelor of law degree in 1978 from Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Even when he was a graduate student he participated in an election campaign against Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in Ganderbal constituency once the later compromised his stand on self-determination of Kashmir for coming to power.

He worked actively in dissemination of humanitarian law[6] in collaboration with International Committee of Red Cross; the purpose was to sensitise non-state actors about limits on means and methods of warfare, to deliver upon the purpose he coordinated 27 seminars across conflict ridden Kashmir.

This led him to leave Malaysia and come back to Kashmir where he tried to provide content to resistance through his writings in local dailies.

Sheikh Showkat was charged for sedition[7] in Delhi along with several other prominent figure such as the Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer activist Arundhati Roy, Prof. S.A.R Geelani, Sujato Bhadra, Varavara Rao and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, for making a speech at a convention titled "Azadi: The Only Way”.