Key points
- History cannot be erased by stopping me from going to Masjid on Fridays: Mirwaiz
- Recalls martyrs of July 13, 1931, as pioneers of Kashmir’s political movement
ISLAMABAD: Indian authorities in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have placed senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest for the second consecutive Friday.
In a statement via X, the senior leader of the APHC, Mirwaiz, said, “For second consecutive Friday I remain under house detention — with every lane and by-lane to my residence barricaded, causing inconvenience to the entire neighbourhood”.
For second consecutive Friday I remain under house detention — with every lane and by-lane to my residence barricaded, causing inconvenience to the entire neighbourhood . Let me make it clear to the rulers , the memory of our martyrs cannot be regulated by them. It resides in… pic.twitter.com/9uhH9WG6Yf
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) July 18, 2025
He further stated, “Let me make it clear to the rulers, the memory of our martyrs cannot be regulated by them. It resides in our hearts. Facts and history cannot be erased by lockdowns and barring people from visiting the martyrs graveyards or stopping me from going to Jama Masjid on Fridays, not by appeasing narratives or shameful communal distortions, if it resides in the collective memory of people, which it does.”
Martyrs of July 13
Mirwaiz paid tribute to the martyrs of July 13, 1931, saying “The Marty’s [sic] of July 13 1931 were the frontrunners of the political movement in Kashmir; a people’s just struggle against oppression. They are and will remain our inspiration.”
