Srinagar, Mar 16: “Arrests and nocturnal raids have been expedited at an alarming pace and political leaders and activists are being treated like criminals by police and other forces. This ugly oppression has and will only glamorize extremism and violence,” said the senior vice chairman of JKLF Abdul Hameed Butt on Saturday while condemning the prolonged incarceration of party chairman Yasin Malik and others.
Butt, in a statement issued to KPS, said: “The ongoing police oppression across Kashmir valley is undemocratic and despotic.”
“This undemocratic, illegal and dictatorial attitude of the rulers and their authorities has and is ruining prospects of a democratic peaceful political dissent and hence promoting and glamorizing violence which is highly deplorable,” he said.
Condemning this police attitude, JKLF senior vice chairman appealed the international community and human rights organizations to take a serious note of this “undemocratic attitude” of rulers and use their good offices to promote the democratic norms and space for political dissent.
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