SRINAGAR
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s (IIOJK) All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Friday demanded immediate release of senior APHC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, from house detention.
According to a report by the Kashmir Media Service (KMS), APHC in a statement in Srinagar expressed surprise on the assertion of the Lieutenant Governor of IIOJK, Manoj Sinha, who claimed that the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is not been under house detention and insisted that the Indian forces’ vehicles and personnel were stationed outside his house for his safety.
The APHC said that such blatant misrepresentation of facts and denial of the incarceration of the Mirwaiz is unbelievable.
“Mirwaiz for the last three years has forcibly not been allowed to come out of his house despite repeated appeals and implorations from all sections of people to the authorities, including religious ulemas across the territory.
Newspapers and electronic media reports bear witness to it. Being the Mirwaiz, he is even stopped from going to Jamia Masjid on Fridays to deliver religious sermons from its pulpit which is the centuries old tradition in J&K, or to visit other religious places on important religious occasions.
Except close relatives no one is allowed to enter the house. How can these facts be negated and claims of his not being under house arrest made?” it said.
