Amritsar, Punjab (February 25, 2013):
Condemning his continued house arrest in New Delhi, the Dal Khalsa has
urged the Government of India to release chairman of Hurriyat (G)
Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani immediately.
S. Harcharanjit Singh Dhami
In a statement party head H S Dhami
termed the detention of Geelani Sahib ever since the hanging of Afzal
Guru on Feb 9 as ‘illegal and unjust’. Taking a dig at Indian civil
society and eminent human rights activists based in the capital for
their stoic silence, he said the government has stooped too low to gag
the voice of Kashmiri people.
Urging the civil society to speak up
against state’s highhandedness, he urged the officials of UNHRC, Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch to intervene and take stock of the
ground situation vis-à-vis rights violations.
He said the government was highly
mistaken that by detaining Geelani Sahib it could break his resolve for
carrying forward the struggle for Kashmir’s self-determination.
Accusing the Union Home Minister for his
flip-flop position on “Saffron terror and RSS sponsored terrorism”, Mr
Dhami urged Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde to restore the civil, political and
human rights of Geelani Sahib immediately and allow him to be with his
people and family members.
