Srinagar, January 15 (KNO) : Tehreek-e-Huriyat general secretary Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, yesterday was put under house arrest while as Mohammad Ashraf Laya was arrested and lodged in Rajbagh police station ahead of an executive council meeting of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat that was supposed to be held at Hyderpora.
Monday Tehreek-e-Huriyat in its statement said that almost all executive council members have been arrested and lodged in state and outside state jails. According to statement the meeting at Geelani's house had been called to discuss the prevailing situations with available members, however police foiled the meeting and during raids arrested several leaders.
Strongly condemning the house imprisonment of Geelani and other pro-freedom leaders, Tehreek-e-Huriyat said, “police invented a new process of house arrests and banning of political activities of Geelani Sahib and other leaders since 2010 and barring him from all his religious, political and social obligations.
“The imprisonment of its leaders has no constitutional and moral justification and police is suppressing their peaceful voices just with the barrel of gun. “statement added.
Terming the arrest of hundreds of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leaders and activists as political vendetta, statement said that it is a deliberate attempt to create a political uncertainty, saying people in lawless state are being denied their right freedom of expression, thus strangulating genuine voices and creating uncertainty.
Their rhetoric about the ‘battle of ideas’ proved a hoax and they proved most opportunistic,” the statement said. “Despite their tall claims about freedom of expression, they are chasing political leaders, strangulating genuine voices, curbing peaceful political activities and implicating and caging youth and resistance leaders on fake allegations.”
Statement while calling these arbitrary measures as undemocratic and unlawful, said that nowhere in civilised societies this type of lawlessness is approved.(KNO)