Tehran
Kashmiri Seminary scholars and students organized a peaceful protest in Mashhad, Iran, against the use of pellet-firing on the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The protesters also condemned the use of inhumane and insensitive force on the Kashmiri people. The protesters also demanded a ban of pellet guns in Kashmir and an end to the state terrorism.
Recently in Kashmir, shotgun pellets and teargas were fired to disperse hundreds of mourners in a Muharram procession which injured dozens of people.
The New York-based international rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Indian authorities to prohibit its armed forces in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir from using pellet guns to disperse protesters.
The Human Rights Watch in a statement posted on its website said that Indian police and paramilitary forces used pellet firing shotguns as well as teargas shells at a Muharram procession in Srinagar on August.—KMS
