The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has lamented the silence of the international community on the worst Indian state terrorism in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the Kashmir Media Service report on Saturday, the APHC spokesman, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said the latest report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an eye-opener for the world community, which must hold India accountable for its brutal actions in the occupied territory.
The HRW, in its World Report 2024, said that India continued to restrict free expression, peaceful assembly, and other rights in occupied Kashmir in 2023. It said the critics and human rights defenders faced arrests and raids based on spurious allegations and cited the illegal arrests of Kashmiri rights activists Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraj.
The APHC spokesman, in a statement in Srinagar, said the Modi regime is trampling all fundamental rights of the Kashmiri people daily and employing draconian laws to stifle political dissent in occupied Kashmir. He maintained that the continued denial of the Kashmiris’ fundamental rights, including the right to self-determination by New Delhi, was a violation of the UN charter and international laws.
The spokesman asked how India can claim to be a democratic republic when it was denying the Kashmiris their fundamental rights. “India must be pressurized to stop persecution of rights activists and voices of dissent in the IIOJK. Modi and his henchmen must be held to account for trampling every right of the Kashmiris. The world must wake up to take notice of the plight of oppressed Kashmiris,” he added.
