The authorities have placed All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other Hurriyet leaders, including Syed Ali Gilani, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan under house arrest ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. The action has been taken to prevent these leaders from addressing Eid congregations at different places on Monday.
Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement issued in Occupied Srinagar, appealed to the Amnesty International and other world humanitarian organisations to impress upon India to release all illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders and activists, Kashmir Media Service reported.
He said that presently 891 Kashmiris had been languishing in different jails and 84 of them had been booked under the draconian law, Public Safety Act.
The veteran Hurriyet leader said that many detainees like Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Mir Hafeezullah, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Muhammad Ayub Dar and Dr Shaffi Shariati had been behind the bars for the past several years but the occupation authorities were not releasing them despite repeated court orders. The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement, at a meeting in Thanamandi area of Rajouri, urged the Muslim Ummah to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris' aspirations.
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