Scenario simmering in J&Okay which may have harmful penalties: Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq

The Hurriyat Convention led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Saturday mentioned the ruling dispensation ought to cease pursuing the coverage of intimidation and retribution in opposition to the folks of J&Okay by withdrawing harsh legal guidelines and restore folks’s freedoms and liberties.

The APHC chief knowledgeable that 1000’s of individuals together with political leaders and activists proceed to languish in jails for years and the state of affairs in J&Okay is simmering. “Folks, particularly the youth, really feel suffocated, which may have severe penalties,” mentioned Mirwaiz.

Mirwaiz, who has been beneath home arrest since August 5, 2019, mentioned that the lengthy standing non-resolution of the political and humanitarian situation of J&Okay is barely creating extra problems within the area.

“Scenario in J&Okay is getting increasingly repressive with every passing day. Day in and day trip excessive legal guidelines are launched to additional curb folks’s freedom and intimidate them into silence by concern of retribution. Sudden dismissals of presidency workers with none investigation…is a part of this coverage,” mentioned Mirwaiz in an announcement issued right here. Even whereas making use of for a passport, J&Okay authorities workers should get vigilance clearance, which Mirwaiz mentioned shouldn’t be the case elsewhere.

“A big section of the J & Okay inhabitants is working within the authorities sector, these legal guidelines are supposed to silence them into submission, crush their freedom of expression and quell any sort of dissent. Hurriyat strongly denounces this dictatorial strategy to take care of folks’s aspirations, because it solely creates extra dissent and anger,” mentioned Mirwaiz.

The Hurriyat chief additionally referred to current crackdown on journalists in Kashmir saying that native media individuals and media homes have been repeatedly focused and harassed by raids on their properties and places of work and confiscation of their tools and even arrests in some instances.

“Continued raids by authorities companies on organisations and houses of individuals and slapping of PSA and different harsh legal guidelines on them, choosing up of youth, arbitrary arrests, fixed surveillance of individuals continues unabated throughout J&Okay as a state coverage, and the variety of kashmiris in jails and detention centre’s additional swells,” mentioned Mirwaiz.