#NoRightsInIIOJK
Islamabad: As the World Human Rights Day is being observed across the globe, today, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under violent and brutal Indian occupation and political injustice.
A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion said that Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 was indeed a milestone, but the Kashmiris human rights continued to be violated with impunity. It said among 30 basic human rights enlisted in the UDHR, not even one exists in IIOJK.
The report said that Indian occupational forces had been violating the UDHR in the occupied territory for the last over 77 years and mercilessly killing, arresting, torturing, harassing, subjecting, attaching properties, suspending govt employees from their services and humiliating innocent Kashmiris of every age and gender for demanding their right to self-determination.
The report pointed out that Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel in their unabated acts of state terrorism have martyred 96,383 innocent Kashmiris including 7,370 in custody and fake encounters since January 1989 till date. It said that these killings rendered 22,980 women widowed and 107,974 children orphaned. It said that the Indian forces personnel molested or disgraced 11,265 women and damaged 110,521residential houses and other structures. It maintained that Indian troops and police personnel subjected at least 8,000 people to custodial disappearance during the period.
The report maintained that thousands of young school boys and girls were also injured and damaged by the pellets fired by the troops while dozens including 19-month-old Hibba Jan, Asif Ahmed Sheikh (10), Aaqib Zahoor (16), Ulfat Hameed (17), Bilal Ahmed Butt (17), Insha Mushtaq, Tariq Ahmed Gojri (19), Faizan Ashraf Tantray (19), Aabid Hussain, Habid Hussain Kasab, Shahid Ahmad Wani (16 ), Firdous Ahmad Dar, Tanveer Hussain Bhat and Shabkal Nazir Waseem lost their eyesight completely due to the pellet injuries.
The report pointed out that 950 Kashmiris including 18 women have been martyred, 246 of them in fake encounters and custody, since repeal of special status of IIOJK by Hindutva BJP Indian government on 5th August 2019 in the territory. It said that the troops molested 135 women after during cordon and search operation and house raids in the period.
The report said that the occupation authorities did not allow people to hold religious gatherings like “Jumat-ul-Wida” Magrib, Isha and night prayers on the auspicious occasion of Shab-e-Qadar not allowed at Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, Eidul Fitr prayer and other prayers of the day not allowed in Jamia Masjid Srinagar and Eid Gah Srinagar and Eid-ul-Adha prayer and other prayers of the day not allowed in Jamia Masjid Srinagar and Eid Gah Srinagar during this period.
The report said over five thousand people including Hurriyat leaders, youth, Ulemas, human rights defender, journalists and activists including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, and human rights defender Khurrum Parviaz continue to remain in detention in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail in fake cases registered against them.
Thousands of people including Hurriyat leaders and activists Dr Abdul Hameed Fayaz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Zafar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Yusuf Falahi, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Feroz Ahmed Khan, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Advocate Nazir Ahmed Roonga, Adv Muhammad Ashraf Butt and Adv Muzaffar Qayoom, Ameer Hamza, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Abdul Ahmad Parra, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, Umar Adil Dar, Saleem Nanaji, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Adil Siraj Zargar, Dawood Zargar, Aafreena Ganie, Nigeena Manzoor, Munira Begum, Safeeqa Begum and Ishrat Rasool have been lodged in different jails of India and IIOJK.
Most of them have been put behind the bars in faraway jails in India. The report maintained that the occupation authorities have kept the senior AHPC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house detention on Dec 6 and not allowed him to carry out his political activities and even he has not been allowed to offer Friday prayer and address public meetings.
The report pointed out that this is high time for the world community to come forward in a big way and impress upon India to stop its state terrorism in IIOJK and give the Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat leaders in their separate statements have appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations to send their teams to take stock of the worst human rights situation in the occupied territory.
