Srinagar: Terming the restrictions on Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir’s (HCJK) pro-movement activities by government as autocratic and condemnable, the spokesperson of the amalgam said that the party was scheduled to visit Lal Pora, Kupwara to express solidarity with the recent victims of state oppression but government put its leaders under house arrest and detained others.

According to a statement issued to KNS, “It is totally inhuman and immoral act to stop leaders to express solidarity with the victims of oppression,” the spokesperson said. Commenting on the restrictions put to Hurriyat senior leader, Shabir Ahmad Shah, the spokesperson said that from last three years, Shah’s detention and house arrest amounts to one year, four months and one day. “He (Shah) was also barred from offering Friday congregational and Eid prayers falling under this period,” he said.

He also condemned the arrest of Mushtaq-ul-Islam and house arrest of Shabir Ahmad Shah and Nayeem Ahmad Khan. Applauding the endeavours of people to get the last rites of martyrs conducted as per religious principles, the spokesperson accused government of not letting Shabir Ahmad Shah and other Hurriyat leaders to offer their religious obligations. The Hurriyat spokesperson added that there is police rule prevailing in the state not a democratic one. (KNS)