All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that the illegal detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders and activists are subjected to cruelty and with anti-Kashmiri bias in the jails of India and the occupied territory.

In a statement on Monday, the spokesman of APHC while expressing his deep concern over the plight of Kashmiri detainees said that most of these detainees had spent more than two decades in jails.

He said some of these detainees include Dr. Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Dr. Mohammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Nazir Ahmad Sheikh, Mohammad Ayub Dar, Mohammad Ayub Mir, Javed Ahmad Khan and others.

Citing ruling of the Indian Supreme Court, he said that a detainee is entitled to bail after spending ten years in jail and they could be released after spending fourteen years in jail.

The APHC spokesman said, hundreds of detainees are currently imprisoned in different jails of India and Kashmir and their life is at risk because of the spread of the coronavirus.

He deplored that the detainees from occupied Jammu and Kashmir are being treated with discrimination and are subjected to political vendetta. He pointed out that they were attacked by racist criminals in jails.

He said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir are proud of Hurriyat leaders and activists, who are either in jails or in field where they are struggling for a peaceful and sustainable solution to the Kashmir dispute under UN resolutions.

The APHC appealed to the UN Secretary General, the International Committee of Red Cross and all local and international human rights organizations to use their clout for the release of the jailed Kashmiris and settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN resolutions.