ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday explosively condemned the arrest of mortal rights activist Khurram Parvez in India- held Jammu and Kashmir.
Arbitrary apprehensions of mortal rights activists on orchestrated charges by Indian occupation forces is clear substantiation of New Delhi’s state-terrorism and trampling of abecedarian mortal rights in the enthralled vale, Foreign Office prophet Asim Iftikhar said in a statement issued then.
The prophet said that the reprehensible unwarranted quests by the Indian National Investigation Agency at the services and hearthstone of Khuram Parvez had also been condemned by transnational mortal rights activists and organizations.
The world is apprehensive that it has come decreasingly delicate for mortal rights organizations and activists to continue their work in India and held Kashmir due to ceaseless witch quest by the Hindutva-driven RSS-BJP combined over unsupported and motivated allegations, he added.
Amnesty International had to shut all its operations in India in September 2020 when its bank accounts were firmed by India in an act of reprisal because of their independent reporting on held Kashmir, the prophet mentioned.
He said the UN human rights ministry, independent NGOs, and global media had regularly reported on and expressed enterprises over adding intimidation, importunity, and reprisal attacks by Indian occupation forces against Kashmiri mortal rights protectors, intelligencers, and civil society actors since August 5, 2019.
The prophet prompted the transnational community to hold India responsible for continued clampdown against mortal rights organizations and activists for bearing their duty to expose gross and methodical mortal rights violations of Kashmiris enthralled vale, and the nonages, especially Muslims, in India. — APP
Reuters adds Rights groups, including the United Nations, have criticized the arrest of Khurram Parvez.
Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Protectors, called Parvez’s arrest “ disturbing”.
“ He’s not a terrorist, he’s a mortal rights protector,” she said in a tweet.
I’m hearing disturbing reports that Khurram Parvez was arrested today in Kashmir & is at risk of being charged by authorities in #India with terrorism-related crimes. He’s not a terrorist, he’s a Human Rights Defender @mujmash @RaftoFoundation @GargiRawat @NihaMasih pic.twitter.com/9dmZOrSwMY
Mr. Parvez, one of Kashmir’s best-known activists, is head of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a group of rights organizations working in the region.
He was arrested and detained on analogous charges in 2016, after being averted from boarding a flight to attend a UN human rights forum in Geneva. He was ultimately released without being condemned to any crime.
