PeH organizes photo exhibition for release of Kashmiri detainees
Muzaffarabad: A photo exhibition was organized by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir to highlight the plight of Kashmiri detainees and to raise demand for their release.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the photo exhibition was organized in front of Central Press Club, Muzaffarabad, in which the photos of 60 Kashmiri prisoners who have been imprisoned in Indian jails for years were placed.
Leaders of various political and religious parties, office-bearers of lawyers’ organizations, leaders of business associations, representatives of journalist organizations, civil society members, workers and many other citizens attended the event.
Speaking on the occasion, Pasban-e-Hurriyat Chairman Uzair Ahmad Ghazali and other Kashmiri leaders said before the brutal actions and decision of August 5, 2019, the Modi regime arrested over 19,000 citizens from various districts, cities, towns and villages of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Adding that a large number of them were released after paying heavy bribes, but even after six years, more than 4200 Kashmiris are still deprived of their freedom.
“They are in Indian jails for demanding self-determination, justice and human rights while conspiracies are emerging to give death sentence to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik”, he apprised.
He said the Indian government is using the abominable practice of imprisoning thousands of Kashmiri citizens, executing martyring them in fake encounters and torturing their families as a weapon of war.
He said the leaders of Kashmiri freedom fighters, human rights activists, leaders of political and religious parties and journalists including Musarat Alam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Dr Qasim Faktu, Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmida Sufi, Nahida Nasreen, Zafar Akbar Butt, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Dr Hameed Fayyaz, Ayaz Akbar, Saifullah Peer, Muhammad Yusuf, Bilal Ahmad Siddiqui, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Shahid-ul- Islam, Shahid Yusuf, Shakeel Yusuf, Noor Muhammad Fayyaz, Ghulam Qadir Butt and Muhammad Shafi Shariati, have been languishing in different jails of India and the territory.
The citizens who visited the protest camp appealed to international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, Asia Watch and Human Rights Watch to release the Kashmiri prisoners.
