Srinagar, Aug 4 (UNI) Kashmiri separatist group All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Thursday urged the government to release all Kashmiri political prisoners unconditionally including its Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and “resume the process of conflict resolution through peaceful means which is dialogue.”
Earlier the day, Peoples Conference leder Sajad Lone also appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to ensure release of Mirwaiz Farooq

APHC said Mirwaiz Farooq on Thursday completed three years of continuous house detention under which the authorities placed him on August 4, 2019 when Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded to a Union Territory and its special status revoked.

"APHC strongly condemns this arbitrary, despotic and extra judicial act of the authorities of forcibly detaining its Chairman in his house, leading to gross violation of all his fundamental and basic human rights. All channels of communication are blocked to him and all outreach to people friends and party cadre, barred,” it said.
The APHC said it seems Mirwaiz was being punished for pleading the cause of resolution of the lingering Kashmir conflict through peaceful means of dialogue and deliberations and good neighbourly relations in the subcontinent.
“Jailing Kashmiri political leadership, cadres, activists, journalists, youth and people from different walks of life in jails across India and using all forms of repressive measures to quell dissent or resistance is a despotic approach to problem solving and futile in the long term, as has been observed in other conflict regions,” the statement said.

The APHC also appealed to the Indian government to release all Kashmiri political prisoners unconditionally.

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