DFP seeks release of Kashmiri prisoners, condemns arrest of students in strongest terms

 SRINAGAR, Nov 29 (SABAH): Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), while voicing its serious concerns over the plight of Kashmiri prisoners has urged the United Nations and international human rights organizations to impress upon the Indian government to release all the prisoners who have been illegally arrested before and after 5th August 2019.

In a statement issued here Wednesday, the DFP spokesman advocate Arshad Iqbal expressed concern over the deteriorating political and human rights situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and the plight of illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and workers who have been arrested on trumped-up charges and left to rot in jails. He said that Kashmiri detainees languishing in jails for the past several years continue to suffer due to non-provision of basic facilities.

The spokesman said that the Indian government was using detention as a tool to suppress the legitimate political voices in Kashmir. On the other hand, the spokesman said that the Indian occupation forces have been murdering innocent Kashmiris without an inkling of fear and accountability.

Expressing his party’s grave concern over the continued detention of the party president, Shabir Ahmed Shah and other  Kashmiri political leaders, including Mussrat Alam Bhat, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Aasiya Indrabi and others, said that the pro-freedom leadership was being punished and persecuted for raising their voice for the voiceless people and India’s brutal suppression against Kashmiris.