KCEU Chairman urges EU authorities to help release Farooq Dar on health grounds
Brussels: The Chairman of Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU), Ali Raza Syed, has urged European Union authorities to use their good offices for the release of illegally detained Hurriyat leader Farooq Ahmad Dar on urgent health grounds.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Ali Raza Syed wrote a letter in the context to Charles Michel, the President of European Council, Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of European Commission, Roberta Metsola, the President of EU parliament and Josep Borrell, the High Representative of EU on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
The letter stated that Hurriyat leader Farooq Ahmad Dar is currently lodged in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail and his condition is deteriorating as he is suffering from serious diseases since June 2022. His hemoglobin level had fallen to seven points because he has been oozing out blood from his mouth from time to time.
The KCEU Chairman said this matter requires urgent attention and needs to be taken very seriously. His family is demanding immediate medical help from a reputed institution and he should be immediately freed on serious health grounds.
The letter pointed out that Farooq Ahmad Dar was under detention for 26 years of his life. He was continuously detained from June 1990 to October 2006, then he was detained for one year in 2008 and has been in continuous detention since 24th July 2017.
Condemning the unlawful imprisoning of this noted Kashmiri politician, the KCEU Chairman urged the EU’s leaders to raise the matter directly with the Indian government, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Farooq Ahmad Dar and the dropping of all charges against him.
In his letter the KCEU Chairman also highlighted the human rights violations in occupied Kashmir as he claimed that the Indian military personnel continue to be involved in crimes against humanity in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
He called upon the leaders, politicians and decision-makers of European Union, United Nations to come forward and put pressure on the Indian government to stop human rights abuses in IIOJK and release all the political prisoners, human rights activists and journalists, including Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasif Sultan, Irfan Meraj, Sajjad Gul, Rana Ayyub, Fahad Shah, Prabir Purkayastha, Rupesh Kumar and Khurram Parvez without any further delay.
