Illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, has welcomed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s statement over the recent verdict of Indian Supreme Court against special status of Jammu and Kashmir and warned that denial of Kashmiris’ right to self-determination by India will continue to endanger peace in South Asia.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Masarrat Aalam Butt in a special message from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail refuted India’s normalcy mantra in the occupied territory and asked why New Delhi has converted it into an open jail where all human rights are trampled on daily basis. He expressed the hope that the Muslim countries will collectively raise their voice for the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation in a statement issued in Jeddah expressed concern over the recent verdict of Supreme Court of India against special status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir and impressed upon India to reverse all its illegal and unilateral actions taken after August 5, 2019.
The time has come when Narendera Modi’s Indian government should be given a shut-up call for resorting to brutal, inhuman, illegal and unconstitutional methods of coercion to punish the Kashmiris for demanding the UN-guaranteed right, Masarrat Aalam Butt said.
He urged the OIC and the global community to come to rescue the besieged people of Jammu and Kashmir in the occupied territory.
The APHC chairman said that India was subjecting Hurriyat leaders, media persons, Ulema, rights activists and even ordinary youth and women to illegal arrests in fake cases to suppress their demand for right to self-determination.
The BJP regime is deliberately prolonging illegal detention of Kashmiri prisoners under draconian PSA/UAPA to force them into submission for their political beliefs and is denying space to Hurriyat leadership by arresting them on fake charges,” he added.—KMS
