GENEVA: Kashmir Campaign Global chairman Zaffar Qureshi has said that the people of Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir needed urgent attention from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) moot to attain the right to self-determination.
While addressing the fifty-second session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Qureshi said that since 2019, when India unilaterally ended Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, New Delhi had intensified repression of rights in the occupied valley.
He said reports noted how civil society, political activists, journalists, human rights activists, and lawyers face relentless imprisonment, interrogation, and even custodial deaths, Kashmir media service reported on Tuesday.
He said that access to justice or human rights bodies is non-existent in IIOJK.
Qureshi said that clampdowns on dissent, foreign funding regularities, financial irregularities, guides of tax rates, and laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Public Safety Act are used to curb the political voices.
Kashmiri leaders’ suffering highlighted in moot
He said freedom voices like Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Khurram Parvez, Massarat Aalam Butt, and many others had been imprisoned under these false accusations.
He further said that rape is used as a weapon of war, with more than 10,000 women have been abused by Indian forces without being delivered justice.
He also mentioned the horrifying incidents of Kunan-poshpora mass rape and gang rape of a minor child Asifa Bano by the extremists.
