Islamabad, October 11, 2022 (PPI-OT):The illegally detained senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Altaf Ahmad Shah, is the latest victim of custodial killing by India. Altaf Ahmad Shah breathed his last on Monday night at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he was shifted from Tihar jail after diagnosed with late stage renal cancer. Earlier, his father-in-law and the iconic Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, died in September, last year, while remaining under illegal detention for over a decade.
Senior APHC leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, 77, who was a close associate of Syed Ali Gilani, died in May, last year, in a jail in Jammu. He was detained under draconian law, Public Safety Act. Ghulam Muhammad Butt, 65, another Hurriyat leader and member of Jamaat-e-Islami in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir embraced martyrdom in Naini jail in the Uttar Pradesh of India in December 2019. Syed Ali Gilani had once stated that getting freedom from India is birth right of the Kashmiri people and New Delhi cannot suppress their resolve for freedom even if it deploys its entire army in IIOJK.
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