Prevailing political situation in Kashmir extremely worrying: Hurriyat

Prevailing political situation in Kashmir extremely worrying: Hurriyat

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference has termed the prevailing political situation in Jammu and Kashmir as “extremely worrying and disturbing”, saying that the large-scale additional deployment of armed forces in cities and towns has created “an atmosphere of panic and insecurity among the people”.
“Besides continued policy of arrests, raids, killings and severe human rights violations continues unabated,” it said in a statement.
“According to newspaper reports, in these days of severe cold, people are being subject to regular stoppage and frisking on roads by the forces who have set up roadblocks all over the city and towns, causing great harassment to them. crackdowns are also routinely carried out in various areas and men and women paraded indiscriminately and being subject to harassment,” it said. The Hurriyat said that the humanitarian and political crisis in Kashmir keeps worsening with passing time and unless the conflict is addressed to be resolved, it is unlikely that the situation will change for the better.
Hurriyat also criticised authorities for forcibly preventing Muslims of the valley from offering Friday prayers at Jama Masjid in Srinagar from August 6, 2021, it said.
It said the religious sentiments of the people were being severely hurt by these measures.
The Hurriyat demanded release of its Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who has been under house detention since 5 August 2019.
“The prevailing political situation in J&K and the arbitrary imprisonment of its leaders and youth call for the attention of the international human rights organisations and demand immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners,” it added.

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