Responding to the results of the Meeting election in Jammu and Kashmir, All Events Hurriyat Convention chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq mentioned Friday that the folks of J&Okay have despatched a “unanimous and clear message that in each method out there to them, they may resist makes an attempt to subjugate and disempower them”.
He additionally known as on the federal government that will probably be fashioned in J&Okay to take up with the Centre the difficulty of releasing “political prisoners” and repealing legal guidelines just like the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Public Security Act (PSA).
Talking from Jamia Masjid after Friday prayers, he mentioned that this time, “by a consolidated poll”, the folks registered their “sturdy disapproval of the drastic, unilateral adjustments made in August 2019 (abrogation of particular powers underneath Article 370), since once they have been systematically disempowered, disadvantaged, and their voices stifled.”
Urging political events to respect the voters’ message and “fulfil the promise” they made to revive the authorized safeguards and the rights “snatched” from them in 2019, the Mirwaiz mentioned, “The possession of our land and assets, the constitutional commitments reneged on, our very identification, and dignity have been additional undermined by the 2019 commandments.”
Calling for the Centre to provoke engagement, Mirwaiz mentioned the Hurriyat was peacefully striving for the rights of the folks of J&Okay, “for which we’re consistently struggling and being despatched to jails. We’ve got been consistently interesting to the GOI for engagement and the discharge of political prisoners, which embody political leaders, legal professionals, human rights activists and youth.”
He additionally urged the incoming J&Okay authorities to “urgently take up the matter with the Authorities of India and assist safe the discharge of all political prisoners and youth languishing in jails for years and a long time, some even with out trial, and push for the withdrawal of the draconian legal guidelines, together with UAPA and PSA”.
“These legal guidelines have destroyed folks’s lives. The medical situation of many prisoners in jail may be very worrying. There may be an pressing humanitarian must reunite them with their households, so this matter calls for speedy consideration and ought to be addressed on precedence,” he mentioned.
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