Srinagar: While thanking the people for observing a complete shutdown against the excesses and unjust arrests by police, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani said that today’s shutdown was observed against the criminal mindset of police who are subjecting the general public particularly the younger generation to the worst kind of mental and physical tortures.
“Kashmiris have always stood against autocracy and oppression and today they have shown that Kashmiri nation will never surrender before the barbarism and atrocities of Indian army and police, because Kashmiris are struggling against the illegal and forced occupation of India from last 67 years and they bitterly know how to protect these huge and precious sacrifices,” Geelani has said, according to a statement issued to KNS. He said that the Kashmiris want complete freedom from Indian occupation and for this they have paid tremendous sacrifices and Kashmiris are ready for any type of sacrifices in future for their sacred cause. No power, force, pressure, violence of any level, arrests or excesses can stop Kashmiries from their basic and birth right. Geelani Sahab said that I have a firm belief that our sacrifices will definitely bring a change and Inshallah victory is waiting for the freedom loving and dedicated people because our freedom movement is based on truth and the truth have always stood successful against the oppression. Geelani Sahab said that a large number of people are still in different police stations and jails particularly Tehreeh-e-Hurriyat general secretary Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie, Hurriyat Spokesman Ayaz Akbar, Masarat Aalam Bhat, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Dr. G. M. Ganie, Gh. Mohammad Bangi, Abdul Gani Bhat district president Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Baramulla, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Bashir Ahmad Saleh, Ameer Hamza, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat and Faisal Ameen of Shopian are still in police custody, while as Zubair Ahmad Turay Shopian, Abdul Hameed Parray Hajan, Waseem Ahmad Pulwama and Zahoor Ahmad Malla alias Raju Baramulla have been detained under PSA like black law. While reiterating his demand for immediately releasing the detainees, Geelani Sahab said that government is deliberately extending the unwanted and unjust detention of pro-freedom leaders and youth and police and army have been set free for rioting and damaging the public property to disturb the peaceful environment. The pro-freedom leader said that if the excess and use of force is not stopped and the detainees are not released immediately, then people will be forced to react. Meanwhile Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani strongly condemned the army action in Janwara Sopore, where they have raided the house of Manzoor Ahmad Janwari and beaten his family members. (KNS)