ISLAMABAD: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has declared that in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), the repressive policies and use of force by Indian authorities remain unabated.
The leaders of the APHC, including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Muhammad Saleem Zargar, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, Ms. Hafza Bano, and Shafiq ur Rehman, made separate statements in Srinagar, according to Kashmir Media Service. They stated that for over 70 years, state terrorism and India’s aggressive military occupation had been the main causes of egregious human rights violations in the region.
They stated that non-Kashmiris were being facilitated to buy land and property in IIOJK to change its demography, while its true residents were being dispossessed and left homeless in a terrible way.
The Indian non-Kashmiri establishment, occupying forces, and bureaucracy, they claimed, have assumed complete control of the civil administration and judicial institutions in the territory, protected by harsh laws, allowing individuals to be harassed, tortured, and detained without consequence.
They protested the cruel treatment of political prisoners from Kashmir who had been imprisoned for requesting the UN-recognized right to self-determination, which is backed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The leaders of the APHC described the current resistance movement against the illegal occupation by the Indian government as entirely political and indigenous, claiming that their imperialistic system of governance is using regular army and paramilitary forces to violate the fundamental rights of the common people and treat them like iron fists.
They mentioned the state of affairs of leaders and activists of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference who are being held illegally by fascist jail authorities in India, stating that they are being held in death cells devoid of even the most basic facilities.
The leaders of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Coalition (APHC) pleaded with the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations to apply pressure on India so they may visit the jails and document the appalling conditions of the inmates’ life firsthand.
