JKLF to launch Court Arrest Movement from Friday
03 January, 2013
Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik has said that his party will launch Court Arrest Movement from Friday. Muhammad Yasin Malik in a media interview in Srinagar emphasised that the campaign would comprise different phases and the JKLF leaders and activists would court arrest on 7th, 9th, 11th and 14th January. The JKLF Chairman said that the objective of the 10-day Court Arrest Movement was to seek cancellation of life-sentences awarded to the Kashmiris and press for release of all political prisoners detained in different jails. Senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah addressing a pubic gathering at Hundi in Shopian said that India would not be able to suppress the Kashmiris' just struggle for right to self-determination. Senior APHC leader, Bilal Ghani Lone in a statement in Srinagar expressed serious concern over the indiscriminate firing by the men in uniform in Pulwama and demanded immediate release of the detained youth. Jamaat-e-Islami occupied Kashmir and Hurriyet leaders including Zafar Akbar Butt, Yasmeen Raja and Farida Behenji in their separate statements urged the world community to take notice of the continued Indian brutalities in the occupied territory. Speakers at a seminar organised by members of Kashmir civil society in Srinagar said that Indian army under the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act had committed war crimes like rape, molestation and damage to property in the territory. An Indian Special Police Officer has committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at his camp in Doda. This has raised the number of such deaths among Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 255 since January 2007. End.
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