MUZZAFARABAD:
In Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK), a human rights organisation known as the Voice of Victims (VoV), has expressed serious concerns regarding the torture and illegal detention of nephews of prominent Kashmiri liberation leader, Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar in Srinagar.
A three-member team headed by Abdul Qadeer Dar, Executive Director of VoV visited liberation leader Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar’s family in Srinagar. The team found that police and Indian forces had crossed all limits in trampling human rights of the family.
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18-year-old Davood Fayaz Zargar and 25-year-old Adil Siraj Misgar are languishing in central jail Srinagar under the illegal custody of Indian forces. They have been charged under the false cases of stone pelting, an old tactics used by Indian police to suppress the genuine voice of Kashmiris.
Being the nephews of Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, a freedom fighter, Indian police have left no stone unturned to harass and torture this family. Even the womenfolk of this family have not been spared by the atrocities carried out by the forces. They have been harassed and molested by the Indian police multiple times.
Fayaz Ahmad Zargar, the eldest brother of Mushtaq Ahmad Zaragar, while narrating the ordeal says that only a five-year old member of the family has not been slapped with draconian Public Safety Act. “Every other family member has been either booked under draconian laws or tortured for one reason or the other,” he deplored.
The reign of terror unleashed on this family right from 1988 when Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar joined pro-freedom struggle.
Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement Zaffar Akbar Bhat , Chairman VoV Altaf Ahmad Bhat also condemned the illegal detention of human rights activists in Srinagar, IoK urging the Amnesty International and other human rights bodies to take the notice of illegal detention of human rights activists in Srinagar.
Opposition leader in Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and centre leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen appealed the European Union and other global human rights organisations to take the notice of illegal arrests of human rights activists in IoK.
Yaseen further said that government of AJK and Opposition will take the issue at international level.
“It is unfortunate to harass and arrest the family members of pro-freedom leaders in IoK ,” Yaseen added.
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