Srinagar: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani continuous to be under house detention since last seven years and his continued confinement was taking heavy toll on his health, the amalgam said in a statement issued on Friday.
Tehreek-e- Hurriyat General Secretary Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Mohammad Ashraf Laya were also put under house arrest, it said.
The police also arrested Hurriyat spokesman Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar from his residence and lodged him in police station Batamalo.
“The state has been virtually turned into police garrison and state authorities are creating emergency like situations and curbs and uncalled restrictions on peaceful political activities has deflated their rhetoric for ‘battle of ideas’”.
Hurriyat Conference also condemned the state authorities for their dictatorial approach and said that since year 2010, the octogenarian leader was confined to four walls of his residence as police authorities have practically turned his residence into a sub-jail.
Hurriyat Conference while denouncing state authorities for their “despotic approach,” said that they failed to justify illegal confinement of Geelani. “It is sheer bullying and illustrates the height of “lawlessness in state.”
Hurriyat Conference termed the continuous detention of Geelani as open demonstration of state “terrorism.” It also ridiculed coalition regime “led by Chief Mehbooba Mufti for their “rhetoric” about Battle of Ideas and ‘’Goli Nahi Boli slogans”. “The tall claims proved fraud and hoax.”
Hurriyat Conference also strongly condemned the slapping PSA on 18-year-old Riaz Ahmed Dar and shifting him to Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu. “The vengeful action against innocent youth is unethical and unconstitutional.”
It also strongly condemned forces attack on school van in Letpora, saying that innocent students and teaching staff were returning to their home and forces through these “cowardly acts” are deliberately deteriorating the situations in state.
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