The Indian government has released Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Hurriyat leader of Occupied Kashmir, after keeping him under house arrest for more than 4 years. Mirwaiz termed the constitutional changes by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government as unacceptable and said that Alhamdulillah our morale is high.
According to the report of ‘AFP’, 50-year-old Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar was detained along with other political leaders when the government revoked the constitutional semi-autonomy of Occupied Kashmir and transferred it directly to the federal government in 2019. It was managed.
After several months of internet blackouts, India had increased the number of armed forces in the region to control the protests. They were under house arrest.
Thousands of worshipers gathered at Srinagar’s Jama Masjid to see him lead Friday prayers for the first time in 218 weeks.
Last week a court asked the authorities to explain their continued detention and they told the public that the police had informed them on Thursday that the authorities had decided to release them.
“This period of my detention and separation from my people has been the most painful for me since my father’s death,” he said.
Mirwaiz called the constitutional changes by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government unacceptable and said that Alhamdulillah our morale is high.
He said that Narendra Modi said about Ukraine that this is not the time for war, he is right, differences should be resolved through dialogue instead of using force or coercion, but he also called for the release of several political prisoners. demanded.
It should be noted that Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, both countries have a full claim on the disputed region and have fought several wars over it.
Thousands of people, including Indian soldiers, militants and civilians, were killed in the 1989 uprising against India in Occupied Kashmir.
According to the report, a large number of security forces including anti-riot police and commandos were deployed around the mosque in Srinagar today.
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