The Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) administration has placed All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) senior leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest for the third consecutive Friday, preventing him from offering congregational prayers at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid.
Authorities under the command of New Delhi-imposed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha barricaded all access leading to Mirwaiz’s residence in Srinagar.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in his tweet said, ”Just informed by the police that today again, for the third consecutive Friday, I have been placed under house arrest and will not be allowed to go to Jama Masjid. What law, if laws govern us. sanctions such an assault on basic rights and turns worship into a crime?
Week after week, on Fridays or any day they decide, at their whim and will, the authorities lock me inside my home, curb my freedom, and prevent me from fulfilling my religious duties, with no accountability for this authoritarian behaviour. And all those whose duty it is to hold the authorities to account either dare not or bother not to question them. Strongly condemn these repeated curbs and the authorities contempt for human rights and people’s sentiments.”
