APHC Urges Action Against Unlawfully Detained Kashmiris

Srinagar – The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has called upon the international community to hold India accountable for depriving thousands of Kashmiris of their fundamental rights by unlawfully detaining them for years.

APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, denounced the detention of over five thousand Kashmiri political prisoners, including Hurriyat leaders, as illegal and a sign of the occupation authorities’ desperation. He accused the Modi regime of using draconian laws to prolong these unlawful detentions in an attempt to silence the Kashmiris’ growing demand for their right to self-determination.

The spokesman lamented that the Hindutva-inspired regime deliberately delays the release of Kashmiri political detainees, even ignoring court orders, as a tool to weaken their resolve for freedom. He asserted that arrests, house raids, harassment, and other oppressive measures would never suppress the unwavering spirit of the Kashmiri people, who remain determined to take their liberation movement to its logical conclusion.

Among the detainees languishing in jails across occupied Jammu and Kashmir and India—both before and after August 5, 2019—are Massart Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, Nayeem Khan, Ayaz Akbar, Pir Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf Shah, Syed Shakeel Yousuf Shah, Mushtaqul Islam, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Irfani, Ameer Hamza, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Abdul Ahad Parra, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Showket Hakeem, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Yousuf Falahi, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Advocate Muhammad Ashraf Butt, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Sadullah Parrey, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, Umar Adil Dar, Saleem Nanaji, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Advocate Zahid Ali, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Adil Siraj Zargar, Dawood Zargar, human rights defender Khurram Parvaiz, and Muhammad Ahsan Untoo.

The APHC urged the global community and human rights organizations to take notice of these blatant violations and pressure India to release all unlawfully detained political prisoners, reaffirming its commitment to the Kashmiri people’s rightful struggle for self-determination.