J&K Democratic Freedom Party urges world community to take notice of increasing Indian state terrorism in IoK 

SRINAGAR, August 21 (SABAH): Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has urged the international community to take effective notice of the increasing Indian state terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

In a statement issued on Monday, the DFP spokesman while voicing his concern over the worsening political and human rights situation in the held territory said that the Indian occupation authorities have intensified their state terrorism in the held territory, mainly targeting pro-freedom leaders, activists and civil society members who have been critical of the Modi government’s muscular policy.

Highlighting the use of state repression in response to democratic dissent, the spokesman said that on the one hand witch-hunt against political, social and human rights activists goes on unabated, while on the other occupation authorities have reopened cases against hundreds of political activists. 

“People are being summoned to police stations every now and then, harassed and humiliated and forced to appear in courts far away from their homes”, he said.

“Arbitrary arrests of Kashmiri political leaders and activists and booking them under black laws and leaving them to rot in jails and interrogation cells without producing in the court of law, getting them punished in fake and fabricated cases, awarding severe punishments such as death penalties, reopening 30 years old cases in which they have been already acquitted, and dragging their families to the courts has become a new normal in Kashmir”, he said.

He said that the Modi government was using its judiciary as a weapon to silence legitimate political voices in Kashmir.

He appealed to the international community to mount pressure on India and to stop the use of state repression to crush political dissent in Kashmir and using its judiciary as a weapon to punish Kashmiri leaders who have been waging a peaceful struggle to achieve the fundamental rights guaranteed to Kashmiris by no less an authority than the United Nations.