The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Asia Watch, to put pressure on the Indian BJP government to release all Kashmiri political detainees, including the Hurriyat leadership stuffed under inhuman conditions in jails in India and Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, expressed serious concern over the continued illegal detention of thousands of people, including APHC leaders, youth, activists, and human rights defenders in different jails.   The statement said that illegal detentions and other repressive tactics by the occupation authorities could not stop the Kashmiri people from continuing their struggle for securing their right to self-determination.

It maintained that subjecting people to torture, wanton arrests, life-time imprisonments, and killings of innocent Kashmiris by the Indian forces’ personnel is an illustration of the ongoing serious situation persisting in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  The Modi regime’s anti-Muslim mindset and its colonial measures imposed one after another in Kashmir also indicate clearly what is in store for the Kashmiri people in the coming days, it added.   

The spokesman expressed his deep concern over the plight of Kashmiri detainees, including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Shahidul Islam, Molvi Bashir Ahmed Irfani, Bilal Siddiqi, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Dr Hameed Fayaz.

Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Showket Hakeem, Merajuddin Nanda, Advocate Zahid Ali, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Showkat Ahmed Khan, Omar Adil Dar, human rights defenders Khurrum Parvez, and others languishing in different jails. APHC denounced the Indian government for pursuing the wicked agenda of attaching and demolishing the properties of the Kashmiris to punish them for their deep-rooted spirit for freedom of their motherland from Indian occupation.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)