SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has asked the United Nations and global human rights organizations to take serious note of victimization of illegally detained Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in various prisons of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and India.
According to local and western media, the APHC spokesperson in a statement in Srinagar termed the condition of Kashmiri political prisoners as troublesome because of the worst kind of persecution they have to confront at the hands of jail authorities for their rightful political beliefs.
He added the Kashmiri prisoners are being subjected to inhuman treatment and denied even very basic legal and medical facilities. The spokesperson said the so-called judicial trial of these political prisoners is being stretched to prolong their detention to punish them for raising their voice for right to self-determination, justice and peace for their homeland.
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The spokesman maintained that thousands of prisoners including APHC chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Aasiya Andrabi, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Meraajudin Kalwal, Shahidul Islam, Fehmeeda Sofi, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Bilal Siddiqi, Naheeda Nasreen, Abdul Ahad Parra, Mushtaqul Islam, Maulvi Bashir Ahmed Irfani, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariyati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Ameer Hamza, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Umar Adil Dar, Shabir Ahmed Dar, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Fayaz Hussain Jafari, Jahangir Ghani Butt, Saleem Nanaji, Maulana Sarjan Barkati, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Sajad Hussain Gul, Hassan Firdousi, human rights defender Khurrum Parvaiz, Shamsuddin Rehmani, and others were facing the most inhuman conditions in various Indian jails.
The APHC spokesman saluted the resolve and determination of the political prisoners and maintained that through victimization, New Delhi would never succeed to force them to surrender their will to fight for their United Nations-guaranteed right to self-determination.