SRINAGAR (Kashmir English): Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has strongly condemned what it termed the brutal repression of political and human rights in Kashmir by Indian occupation authorities.
Referring to use of brute force by the Indian Army on unarmed civilians in occupied Kashmir including a fresh crackdown on political and civil society activists, DFP spokesman advocate Arshad Iqbal said in a statement that the witch-hunting of political activists, lawyers, and human rights defenders speak volumes about India’s repressive policies towards Kashmir.
Detentions of Kashmiri leadership
He urged the world community to take notice of the arbitrary arrests, prolonged detentions of political activists and massive human rights violations being committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces in the region.
He said Indian authorities were hell bent on crushing every dissent in the region.
The spokesman also condemned Modi-led fascist Indian regime’s antagonistic approach towards Kashmir.
Silencing every opposing voice in Kashmir, he said, has been the official policy Modi government has been pursuing religiously since it unlawfully stripped the region of its special status in 2019.
“Caging political activists and banning legitimate Kashmiri political voices under draconian laws to enable graveyard silence in the disputed region is meant to promote the so-called normalcy narrative to mislead the world on Kashmir.”
The DFP spokesman said on the one hand, India has deployed over nine hundred thousand troops in IIOJK to control a small population, while on the other, it has suspended essential fundamental freedoms that have led to the ruthless suppression of expression of dissent in the territory.
He said thousands of political workers including top Hurriyat leaders have been left to rot in jails while a witch-hunt against civil society activists, rights defenders, and journalists continues unabated.
