SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference and other pro-freedom organizations have expressed deep concern over the plight of incarcerated Hurriyat leaders, youth and activists, languishing in different jails of India and in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC leader Abdul Ahad Parra, Yaseen Attai, Sleem Zargar, Bashir Ahmed Andrabi, Khawaja Firdous, Sikh intellectual Circle Jammu and Kashmir head Narender Singh, Maulana Musaib Nadvi, Prof Zubari and others in their separate statements issued in Srinagar urged the United Nations Council for Human Rights and other international human rights organizations to visit jails of India and IIOJK to take stock of the pathetic situation faced by the Kashmiri detainees.
They said that all the prisoners of conscience have been detained without any legal trial while their detention period is prolonged on one pretext or the other. They demanded probe by a team of the United Nations and International Court of Justice into the complaints of inhuman treatment meted out to the prisoners of conscience, detained on flimsy grounds.
The statements lauded the unwavering steadfastness displayed by the freedom and peace-loving leaders, including Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Aasiya Andrabi, Ayaz Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Merajuddin Kalwal, Peer Saifullah, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Maulana Abdul Majid Dar, Maulana Mushtaq Veeri, Abdul Rashid Doowoodi, Maulana Abdul Wahid Kishtwari, Khurrum Parvaiz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, Bilal Siddiqi, Ameer Hamza, Dr. Shafi Shariati, Dr Qasim Fakhtoo, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Mohammad Rafiq Gania, Showket Hakeem, Mohammad Hayat Bhat, Mehrjudin Nanda, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Muhammad Yousuf Fallahi, Asif Sultan, Fahad Shah, Aadil Zargar and others.
They said that the Indian government is trying to defame the Hurriyat leadership and Kashmir freedom movement through the infamous National Investigation Agency (NIA) and State Investigation Agency (SIA) but it will not succeed in its nefarious designs to suppress the ongoing right to self-determination demand of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The leaders strongly condemned the ongoing human rights violations by Indian forces in the occupied territory and the killing of youth in so-called cordon and search operations in Kupwara, Rajouri and Poonch districts.
