Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 10: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) today demanded immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested and lodged in various jails in J&K and across country before and after August 5, 2019.
In a statement issued here, APHC expressed serious concern over the condition of Kashmiri prisoners including Hurriyat leaders and activists and thousands of youths and Kashmiri from all walks of life who are detained in Tihar Jail, Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jodhpur Jail, Agra Jail, Amphala Jail, Haryana Jail and various other jails of India or have been under house arrest before and after August 5, 2019, especially in times of COVID 19.
APHC said that its Chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq, who is also the leading religious leader of Jammu & Kashmir, continues to be under arbitrary house arrest since August 5, 2019. “It is more than a year and is an extremely high handedness of the state.”
The conglomerate said that due to continuous detention and prison conditions the physical and mental condition of most of the prisoners has gone from bad to worse.
The statement further stated that APHC reiterates that “the policy of fear and repression cannot alter the reality on the ground with regard to people’s belief in their sentiment and their hope to realise it.”
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