The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has called upon the international community to hold India accountable for depriving the thousands of Kashmiris of their fundamental rights by caging them unlawfully for the past many years. According to Kashmir Media Service, APCH spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar  termed the detention of five thousand Kashmiri political prisoners including Hurriyat leadership as illegal and  frustration of the occupation authorities.

He said Modi regime is prolonging unlawful detentions using draconian laws to silence Kashmiris’ growing demand for right to self-determination.  The spokesman deplored that the Hindutva-inspired regime uses delay in the release of Kashmiri political detainees despite court orders as a tool to break their resolve for freedom. He said that arrests, house raids, harassment and other atrocities couldn’t suppress the freedom sentiment of the Kashmiri people who are determined to take their ongoing liberation movement to its logical conclusion at all costs. 

Among these detainees include Massart Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, Nayeem Khan, Ayaz Akbar, Pir Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf Shah, Syed Shakeel Yousuf Shah, Mushtaqul Islam, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Irfani,  Ameer Hamza, Dr Hameed Fayaz,  Abdul Ahad Parra, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Hayat Ahmed Butt,  Showket Hakeem, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Yousuf Falahi, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati.

Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom,  Advocate Muhammad Ashraf Butt, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Sadullah Parrey Ghulam Qadir Butt, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, Umar Adil Dar, Saleem Nanaji, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Advocate Zahid Ali, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Adil Siraj Zargar, Dawood Zargar, human rights defender Khurrum Parvaiz and Muhammad Ahsan Untoo who have been languishing in jails in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and all over India before and after the events of August 5, 2019.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)