Srinagar, Oct 04 (KNS): Hurriyat (M) has strongly condemned the government for extension upto 17th October in the judicial custody, illegal detention and solitary confinement of its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Since 26th august Mirwaiz has been lodged at a sub jail in Chesmashahi.
Before that he was placed under house arrest for two months from July 8, 2016.APHC demands his immediate release from detention. Aphc spokesman said repeated and arbitrary curbs and detention of the Mirwaiz is highly regrettable. As the Mirwaiz of the state it has prevented him from discharging his religious obligations and dawaa and social work. For the past 25 years at the whim and will of the state he is repeatedly prevented from offering Friday prayers and delivering Friday sermons. He is not allowed to address religious (Tableege) congregations and Majlis across the state to which he is invited as Mirwaiz. For the past six years he has not been allowed to attend Eid prayers andEid ijtima. As a political leader his political activities and outreach to people is curbed by force. Ahead of any political rally, gathering, or assembly a posse of armed state forces are placed outside his home and he is prevented from moving out. He is under constant surveillance and even those who come to meet him are tagged. His passport has been impounded for many years now to prevent him from attending religious and political conferences and highlighting the Kashmir issue globally. Simultaneously there is a constant and concerted effort to vilify him. Such oppressive measures by the state, the spokesman said, are blatant violation of international human rights laws safeguarding human rights of each person .They are attempts to harass him and prevent him by force from his basic right of pursuing his principled stand, of seeking justice and freedom for his nation.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelSuch actions belie the democratic credentials of the establishment that it claims to have. The spokesman said that despite such assaults, Mirwaiz as the legatee of advocating and pursuing the just and sacred cause of his people will continue to do so in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors Shaheed-i-Millat Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Farooq and Mohajir-e-Millat Mirwaiz Yousuf Shah.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat (M) also condemned the continuous arrest of its other leaders including Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, and Ghulam Nabi Zaki, who has been slapped with PSA and shifted to the infamous Kot Balwal jail, house arrest of Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam, arrests of Hurriyat activists Babloo Shah of Seer Hamdan, Islamabad and Muhammad Rafiq Dar of Srigufwara, who too have been slapped with PSA and sent to Kathua jail.
APHC said that the coalition government of the state should immediately release its Chairman, other resistance leaders including veteran leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani Mohammad, Yasin Malik, activists and cadres of resistance groups, human rights activists freedom-loving youth, trade union leaders and government employees, who have been lodged in different jails across the state and create a conducive atmosphere for the resolution of Kashmir issue.
The spokesman also slammed the government for arresting fathers instead of their sons, who participate in peaceful protests, and use of force on peaceful protestors across towns and villages and indiscriminate use of force on recent protests at Chek Kawoosa, Narbal, Veerinag and other places and ransacking of residential houses. (KNS)