Srinagar, June 12 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has strongly condemned the house arrest of the Chairman of APHC, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and illegal detention of senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani along with dozens of other pro-movement leaders and activists under Public Safety Act.

The spokesman of APHC, in a statement issued in Srinagar, denounced the shifting of Hurriyet leaders to jails outside the valley.

He termed the illegal detention of Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Muhammad Salim Nunnaji and Aasiya Andrabi under PSA as frustration of the puppet authorities. “Such coercive steps can’t weaken the ongoing resistance movement,” he said.

On the other hand, the Acting Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party, Maulana Muhammad Abdullah Tari, in a statement issued in Srinagar, has strongly condemned the arrest and detention of pro-movement leaders and activists under Public Safety Act.

The spokesman of National Front, in a statement issued in Srinagar, described booking of the pro-freedom leaders under PSA as deplorable and expressed anguish over the shifting of detainees outside the valley.

Expressing serious concern over the arrest and detention of pro-movement leaders and activists under Public Safety Act, the Acting Chief Patron of Dukhtaran-e-Milat, Rifat Fatima, in a statement issued in Srinagar, termed it highly condemnable act.  She said that Syed Ali Gilani, Aasiya Andrabi and Sufi Fahmida were taken to some unknown places after their arrest by Indian troops. Jamiat Ahlihadith Jammu and Kashmir, in a statement issued in Srinagar, flayed the occupation administration for use of ‘indiscriminate force’ by the Indian police against the peaceful demonstrators protesting against the rape and murder of two women in Shopian and arrest of pro-freedom leaders. 
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