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Online Desk: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has expressed grave concern over the
plight of illegally detained Hurriyat leaders, activists and youth languishing
in jails in India and the occupied territory,
and urged the United Nations, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and international human rights
organizations to press India for their
release. APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a
statement issued in Srinagar, said that India had imprisoned more than 3,000 Kashmiris,
including Hurriyat leaders, in fabricated cases.
He said the mass detention of Kashmiris was aimed at
punishing Kashmiris for demanding freedom from Indian occupation, but such
coercive measures could not suppress their aspiration for freedom. He noted
that some detainees had spent more than two decades behind bars, including Dr.
Mohammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr. Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Nazir
Ahmad Sheikh, Mohammad Ayub Dar, Mohammad Ayub Mir, Javed Ahmad Khan, Feroz
Ahmed Dar, Abdul Hameed Tailee, Tariq Ahmed Mattoo, Mahmood Topi Wala, Bashir
Ahmad Pannu, Fayyaz Ahmed, Sharifud-Din-Gujjar, Muhammad Ashraf Peer, Khalid
Mehboob Phalwan, Maqsood Ahmed Bhat, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Mohammad Abbas Wani,
Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Abdul Waheed, Abdul Rasheed Mir and Fahdullah.