Thousands of Kashmiris behind Bars under illegal detention

1. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that Indian military and police in connivance with non-Kashmiri bureaucrats are undemocratically ruling occupied Jammu and Kashmir and suppressing people for raising their voice for inalienable right to self-determination.

2. The APHC in a statement issued in Srinagar said, the use of brute military force has failed to dent the morale of Kashmiris who are determined to continue their freedom struggle with valor and integrity. It denounced the arbitrary arrests during the frequent cordon and search operations and said thousands of innocent people have been put behind bars without any legal trial. The civil population, the APHC said, is facing an undeclared curfew amid the presence of more than one million Indian occupation troops in the territory.

3. APHC leaders Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Zamrooda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Fahreeda Behanji, Dr Musaib on the eve of Kunan Poshpora mass rape of February 23, 1991, urged appealed to G-20 countries not to let India hide behind the forum by attending the New Delhi’s planned event in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The leaders reminded the Group that Kashmiri women had always been the prime target of coward Indian forces, and the Kunan Poshpora tragedy was wickedly planned to keep them away from the freedom struggle.

4. Indian troops had gang-raped around 100 women of all ages from eight to eighty on the night of February 23 in 1991 during a siege and search operation in Kunan Poshpora area of Kupwara district.

5. New Delhi-controlled State Investigation Agency arrested three including a woman during the ongoing raids and searches at different places across the territory.

6. Peoples Democratic Party chief, Mehbooba Mufti, in a media interview in Srinagar asked India if the Kashmir conflict is over then why thousands of Kashmiris are still languishing in jails across India. She said that since BJP came to power in India, it is engaged in bulldozing everything, weaponizing parliament, agencies and the Indian Constitution.

7. National Conference Vice President , Omar Abdullah in a tweet also asked why people of Jammu and Kashmir should pay taxes when they have no say in how the government is formed and run and how decisions are made and imposed in Jammu and Kashmir.