All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) headed by incarcerated Mirwaiz Umar Farooq strongly condemned the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment for Senior resistance leader and chairman of JKLF Mohammad Yasin Malik by the court in New Delhi.
In a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat, the APHC said that Yasin Malik since 1994 pursued peaceful and democratic means of conflict resolution.
“A strong votary of dialogue and negotiations between the concerned parties to the Kashmir conflict i.e people of JK, India and Pakistan, he has been relentlessly and selflessly seeking its resolution,” the press release read.
Yasin Malik actively participated in all negotiations held on Kashmir after 2000 under various regimes in New Delhi and Islamabad. Yet he was arrested, shifted to Tihar and has now been convicted in invented cases under draconian laws when actually he is being punished for his political beliefs on the J&K dispute and for representing the sentiments of its people, Hurriyat said.
The complete protest strikes being observed by people despite state coercion and pressure not to allow it, show people’s commitment to resistance against force and in support of resistance leadership in jails and under incarceration.
APHC asked the Government of India to release all political prisoners in jails across India and under house arrest, and resolve the lingering Kashmir conflict peacefully through deliberations among the parties to the dispute keeping in view the will of the people of J&K .Imprisonment and incarceration cannot change that reality.