Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has urged the international community to take cognizance of the increasing Indian state terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement issued in Srinagar, the DFP spokesman while voicing his concern over the worsening political and human rights situation in the occupied territory said that the Indian authorities have intensified their state terrorism, mainly targeting pro-freedom leaders, activists and civil society members who have been critical of the Modi government’s muscular policies. Highlighting the use of state repression in response to democratic dissent, the spokesman said that on the one hand witch-hunt against political, social and human rights activists goes on unabated, while on the other occupation authorities have reopened cases against hundreds of political activists.

 “People are being summoned to police stations every now and then, harassed and humiliated and forced to appear in courts far away from their homes”, he said. “Arbitrary arrests of Kashmiri political leaders and activists and booking them under black laws and leaving them to rot in jails and interrogation cells without producing in the court of law, getting them punished in fake and fabricated cases, awarding severe punishments such as death penalties, reopening 30 years old cases in which they have been already acquitted, and dragging their families to the courts has become a new normal in Kashmir”, he added.The spokesman went on to add that the Modi government was using its judiciary as a weapon to silence legitimate political voices in Kashmir.

He appealed to the international community to mount pressure on India to stop the use of state repression to crush political dissent in Kashmir and its judiciary as a weapon to punish Kashmiri leaders who have been waging a peaceful struggle to achieve the fundamental rights guaranteed to Kashmiris by no less an authority than the United Nations.

 
Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)