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“Choking peaceful space for dissent and arresting people for sedition merely for standing with truth is creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.”
“Prolonging incarceration of Professor SAR Geelani and others shows the double faced approach of Indian rulers,” This was stated by the vice chairman JKLF Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi while speaking to people at Jenab Sahib, Soura today.
Earlier JKLF leaders and activists participated in a protest rally held at Soura. The rally was organized to protest against prolonging the “incarceration” of noted educationist and social “leader” Professor SAR Geelani and others who are in jail under “fake and “manipulated sedition charges”, a JKLF spokesperson said in a statement issued here.
He said, “The participants of the rally chanted slogans in favour of Azadi, Martyrs and immediate release of Professor Geelani and other students.”
The statement said, “India and its stooges have choked every little space for peaceful political activities. Political dissent and raising voice against oppression, tyranny and torture have been banned. In Kashmir during 2008 and 2010 when people of Kashmiris transformed their struggle from violence to non violence, hundreds of young Kashmiris fell to the bullets of trigger happy Indians, thousands of young boys and youth were arrested and tortured and from then they along with their families are being humiliated on daily basis.
“This oppression is pushing young Kashmiris to the wall and hence promoting worst kind of violence. Indian oppression is responsible for the killings of our young buds and today because of this undemocratic and oppressive behaviour, we are receiving the corpses of our brilliant minds.”
While paying tributes to the three youth who were killed in an encounter in Dadsara, Tral, the speakers said that these young boys are laying their lives for a just cause and we salute their sacrifices. “Indian rulers in their pursuit to stop voices rising in support of Kashmir in Indian states have started intimidating people and charging them with black laws. Today professor SAR Geelani and many students of JNU are in jails under concocted allegations and rulers and their authorities are trying everything possible to prolong their detention.”
The spokesperson said that SAR Geelani is a known social, human rights activist and has been raising his voice for political prisoners, human rights of Kashmiris and other human issues. “Arresting SAR Geelani like people on concocted charges and putting them behind bar is condemnable and irony is that no one is today raising voice against Professor Geelani’s incarceration.”
The statement also added that the Kashmiris will keep protesting against this ban on freedom of speech and thought, against incarceration of Professor Geelani and intimidating Kashmiris especially students studying in India. “On the occasion people chanted slogans against arresting Professor SAR Geelani and others and threatening Kashmiris living in India.”
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