SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has said that the policies of repression and military might by India continue unabated in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), western media reported on Sunday.
The APHC leaders, including Muhammad Saleem Zargar, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Ms. Hafza Bano, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, and Shafiq ur Rehman told the media in Srinagar that for more than seven decades, India’s aggressive military occupation and state terrorism had been major reasons of gross human rights violations in the valley.
The leaders lamented that non-Kashmiris were being facilitated to purchase land and property in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) to change its demography, and its real citizens were being displaced and rendered homeless in an inhumane means.
Policies of Repression Continue Unabated in IIOJK: Kashmiri Leaders
They added, shielded by draconian laws and regulations, the Indian non-Kashmiri establishment, occupation forces, and bureaucracy have taken complete control of the civil administration and judicial institutions in the IIOJK, whereby people are tortured, arrested, and harassed with impunity.
They condemned the inhumane behavior meted out to the Kashmiri political prisoners arrested for demanding the right to self-determination, recognized by the UN and supported by the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Terming the current resistance movement against the Indian illegal occupation as purely political and indigenous, the Kashmiri leaders said the Indian imperialistic system of governance is dealing with the common people with iron fists and trampleing their basic rights via regular army and paramilitary forces.
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Referring to the dilemma of illegally detained leaders, workers and activists of the APHC at the hands of fascist jail authorities in India, they stated the detainees have been lodged in death cells without basic amenities.
The leaders saluted the steadfastness of the incarcerated leaders, including Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Naheeda Nasreen, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Fehmeedah Sofi, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajudin Kalwal, Ayaz Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Shahid Yousuf Shah, Shakeel Yousaf Shah, Khurrum Parvaiz, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Muhammad Yousaf Falahi, Ameer Hamza, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Ahmed Irfani, Asadullah Parray, Shokat Hakim, Umar Aadil Dar, Zafar Akbar Butt, Merajudin Nanda, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Dr Shafi Shariati, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Adil Siraj Zargar, Dawood Zargar, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Jahangir Ghani Butt, Saleem Nanaji, Sajad Hussain Gul, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Shamsuddin Rehmani and Maulana Sarjan Barkati.
The APHC leaders asked the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations to put pressure on New Delhi to allow them to visit the jails and take on-the-spot account of the miserable lives of the detainees.
