In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has expressed serious concern over the continued unlawful detention of thousands of Kashmiris including pro-freedom leaders, lamenting that top Hurriyet leaders have been languishing in New Delhi’s notorious Tihar Jail for over half a decade now.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar while strongly criticizing the Modi regime for subjecting the Kashmiri pro-freedom leaders and activists to the worst kind of political vengeance demanded release of Hurriyat leaders, activists and youth before Eid-ul-Fitr.
He said that APHC Chairman, Masarrat Alam Butt was arrested in April 2015 and has thus completed 9 years in illegal detention in Tihar jail.
The APHC senior leader Shabir Ahmed Shah who was arrested in a fake case in July, 2017 completed 7 years in illegal detention in the jail.
The JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested in April 2019 and completed 5 years in illegal detention in the same jail.
The chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Syeda Asiya Andrabi and her associates, Fahmeeda Sofi and Nahida Nasreen, were arrested in May 2017 and thus completing 7 years in illegal detention in the jail.
Another senior APHC leader Nayeem Khan who was arrested in July 2017 completed his 7 years in illegal detention in the Indian jail, the spokesman said.
He said that other Hurriyet leaders including Ayaz Akbar, Pir Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf Shah, Syed Shakeel Yousuf Shah, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Irfani, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Ameer Hamza,—KMS
