Incarcerated Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Masarrat Aalam Butt has said that the Narendra Modi-led Hindutva government is playing with the lives of the Kashmiri political detainees who are being subjected to torture even in the holy month of Ramadan.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Masarrat Aalam Butt in his message from the infamous Tihar Jail in New Delhi deplored that besides denying basic facilities, the jail authorities are using hardened criminals associated with Hindu fanatic groups to target them in various ways.
The APHC chairman appealed to the world human rights organizations to take immediate notice of the plight of the Kashmiri political detainees and play role in their release.
Meanwhile, illegally detained General Secretary of APHC Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani in a statement issued in Srinagar strongly condemned the raids by Indian forces’ personnel and intelligence agencies on the residences of Hurriyat leaders and human rights defenders in IIOJK during the holy month of Ramadan.
On the other hand, a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, said that Indian troops have martyred 750 Kashmiris, including 14 women, since 05 August 2019 in the territory.
It maintained that most of the victims were killed in fake encounters and custody.
APHC-AJK also held a special prayer session in Islamabad to remember the great services of renowned Kashmiri religious scholar and political leader Mirwaiz Muhammad Yousuf Shah on his 56th death anniversary.
On this occasion, a message of senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is under arbitrary house detention since August 2019, was also read out in which the services of Mirwaiz Muhammad Yousuf Shah were eulogized.