SRINAGAR:In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Saturday expressed serious concern over the plight of illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists lodged in different jails of the territory and India.
The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government was victimizing the Hurriyat leaders for their political beliefs. He said that non-provision of basic facilities including medical care and hygienic food as per the jail manual has put the life of the Kashmiri prisoners at stake. The spokesman urged the United Nations and world human rights organizations to take cognizance of the illegal detention of innocent Kashmiris and impress upon India to release them forthwith.
The Chairman of International Forum for Justice Human Rights JK, Muhammad Ahsan Unto, in a statement in Srinagar deplored that the Indian government was not releasing the unlawfully detained women Hurriyat leaders and activists including Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi and Naheeda Nasreen despite the fact that they were suffering from various serious ailments.
The leaders of Gujjar Pahari Forum, Riaz Ahmed and Advocate Sajjad Ahmad Shah, talking to various delegations in Rajouri and Poonch and Jammu districts deplored that Modi regime has stepped up its state terrorism in IIOJK to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom struggle. Indian police arrested a youth in Pushkar area of Central Kashmir’s Badgam district, today.
Scores of specially abled persons staged protest demonstrations in Jammu and Srinagar against the authorities for not considering their genuine demands despite giving assurances. The demonstrations were held in connection with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
On the other hand, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Mary Lawlor, has made public the communication to India on multiple acts of harassment of journalists in IIOJK and India. The communication was in context to the harassment of 2 journalists based in IIOJK Kashmir Qazi Shibli and Aakash Hassan and another hailing from the Indian state of Bihar, Chandrabhushan Tiwari.
The 5th phase of the referendum for Khalistan, an independent homeland for Sikhs in India, will be held in the United Kingdom, tomorrow. Thousands of members of Sikh community residing in the UK have participated in the earlier phases of the referendum, which kick started with the voting in London on 31 October, this year.
A court in New Delhi sent prominent Kashmiri human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, to judicial remand at Tihar jail. He was under the custody of India’s National Investigation Agency for the last 12 days. A 52-year-old Dalit man died after he was abducted and severely beaten by two men from upper Hindu caste at Akbai village in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh. The victim, Ramhet Jatav, died on Friday while undergoing treatment in a hospital.