The News Craving
Newscraving Desk:
Srinagar
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) said today that its executive members Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat, Bilal lone and Masroor Abaas Ansari were permission to meet chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on his recovery from COVID-19.
Following this, APHC members held a meeting at Lone’s residence as they condemned their chairman’s “continued and arbitrary house detention since August 2019.”
The members said that outside Mirwaiz ‘s residence mobile bunkers and armed vehicles have been stationed and the area is manned by CRPF and state police personnel and the road remains partially blocked from both sides allowing no one to go inside.
The members said that when they went to meet the chairman to inquire about his health after his COVID-19 recovery the armed personnel stationed outside stopped them and send them away.
APHC said this “attitude of the ruling class towards APHC chairman is highly regrettable”. They lamented that all his “human and fundamental rights and civil liberties stand completely curbed for the last two years” while the leader has been “caged inside his home- arbitrarily at the will of the rulers” for firmly standing by Hurriyat’s stand of peaceful resolution of Kashmir conflict in accordance with the people’s aspirations.
The APHC executive members said that they are seeking his immediate release from “illegal arbitrary house detention by the state authorities” and appealed to all rights activists and other organizations to ensure his release and restoration of human rights.