Chairman APHC Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,s Four years in continous Detention completed.

Srinagar (Gaash Report) All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) said that today it’s chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq completed 4 long years of continued house detention under which he was placed on 4th of August 2019 when J&K was downgraded to a UT and its special status revoked . Without any written order or any charges against him APHC chairman is undergoing arbitrary and extrajudicial detention , leading to the suspension of all his fundamental human rights and freedoms, and his responsibilities as the Mirwaiz of J&K. What is ironic is that the state authorities at the highest level deny this and say he is free while a police and paramilitary contingent remains permanently stationed outside his house disallowing him from leaving it!

APHC said that while it is an acknowledged fact that the Mirwaiz as head of hurriyat, has always advocated and led initiatives- even at personal cost , for a peaceful settlement of the kashmir conflict through talks, a means of conflict resolution held up globally and recently reiterated again by the US , a close ally of India , he is being persecuted and imprisoned.

APHC said that jailing Kashmiri political leadership, cadres, activists, journalists, arresting youth on a daily basis, terminating kashmiri’s from employment, framing and executing laws that disempower local people , engineering demographic change, gagging media and seizing resources, all as a means of establishing peace and an approach to problem solving is the way of the current dispensation. What is to be seen is how long this approach is followed and implemented.

APHC said that for its part it will continue to safeguard the rights and interests of people of J&K and advocate dialogue , good neighbourly relations, peaceful coexistence and brotherhood among communities .

APHC also reiterated its appeal to the Government of India to release all Kashmiri political prisoners and others unconditionally including APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq .