SRINAGAR Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman, Mohd Ashraf Sehrae, Saturday said that the Panchayat polls bear no significance and they were imposed to hoodwink world community that things are under control when the fact of the matter is Kashmir dispute is today more dangerous than ever.
He also expressed deep pain and concern over the prolonged detention of Kashmiri political leaders, activists and youth in different prisons within and outside the state.
“A person cannot be held in continued detention without a reason for long, he said in a statement here. He expressed grave concern that hundreds of Kashmiris have been held under administrative detention without being charged or even told what crimes they are suspected of having committed.
Despite India being a signatory to the Geneva Convention on political prisoners it is breaching international obligations by excessively relying on administrative detention. India imprisons people for committing politically motivated offenses, defining them as criminals or threat to state and never does formally acknowledge holding political prisoners within its prison system, he said.
He added that the draconian laws like PSA and AFSPA are invariably invoked to deny freedom of expression.
Indian administration is practicing all the methods of coercion, oppression and arm twisting to crush the peoples resistance but let me reiterate and convey to Indian establishment that the people of Kashmir and their sentiment cannot be crushed by state-terrorism, jailing people or brute force.
He demanded the release of political prisoners implicated in different concocted cases and shifting of political prisoners outside state on the basis of mere political vendetta.
Sehraie strongly condemned the shifting of 75-year-old Hurriyat leader Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori from Kotbalwal jail to Haryana jail and called it outrageous mindset towards the Kashmiris.
Caging and confining senior resistance leader at this age has clearly indicated that forces have lost war in Kashmir.
He appealed the international community and international human rights organizations to come forward and raise their voice for the humanity.
The long festering tragedy of Kashmiris demands determined action by the international community. And peace cannot be built when injustice prevails, he said.
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