Srinagar
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has strongly condemned the attachment and confiscation of properties belonging to Hurriyat leaders and activists, including jailed former Kashmir Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom, by Indian police under the communal and corrupt New Delhi-appointed administration of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
According to the Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said these actions were part of a calculated strategy by India’s BJP government to silence pro-freedom voices, impose demographic changes, and crush the ongoing struggle for the right to self-determination.
He said the properties of several prominent leaders, including Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, and other Hurriyat and Jamaat-e-Islami activists, have been seized, while the APHC headquarters in Srinagar and the head office of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat have also been sealed.
The APHC noted that such punitive actions were being carried out by Indian agencies.
including the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and State Investigation Agency (SIA), under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The forum termed these confiscations part of India’s “settler colonialism” policy aimed at intimidating the Kashmiri population and altering the region’s Muslim-majority demography.
The APHC once again called upon the United Nations and international human rights organizations to intervene and take cognizance of these ongoing violations and repressive measures in the occupied territory.
The statement also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists, including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Aasiya Andrabi, Maulvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Mushtaqul Islam, and others languishing in various jails across IIOJK and India.
It further described the prevailing situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir—marked by cordon and search operations, house raids, and arbitrary arrests—as highly volatile and dangerous, warning that the unresolved Kashmir dispute continues to pose a serious nuclear flashpoint in South Asia.
