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Occupied Kashmir: Martyred HR lawyer Andrabi eulogized
March 29, 2020

In occupied Kashmir, the High Court Bar Association has paid rich tributes to prominent martyred Kashmiri lawyer and the leading human rights activist, Jaleel Ahmad Andrabi on his 24th martyrdom anniversary.

At a meeting in Srinagar, the executive members of the High Court Bar Association said that Jaleel Andrabi was arrested in broad daylight by men in uniform and tortured to death in custody.

They said that Andrabi sacrificed his life for the cause of of Kashmir. The Bar members also paid tributes to other lawyers including Abdul Qadir Sailani, Mohammad Sultan Butt, Peer Hussam-ud-Din and Sheikh Mohammad Hussain for laying down their lives for the noble cause.

In their separate statements, the Kashmir Bar Association, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League and Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi expressed serious concern over the threat to the lives of Kashmiri detainees languishing in Indian jails in view of increasing number of corona patients.

They demanded immediate release of all political leaders, activists, civil society members, lawyers and trade leaders from Tihar and other jails of India and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, Occupied Jammu and Kashmir recorded second death due to novel Coronavirus after a 60-year-old man hailing from Tangmarg area of Baramulla district died, today. With five more people tested positive for the Coronavirus, the toll rose to 50 with 29 in the Kashmir Valley, 8 in Jammu and 13 in Ladakh region.

On the other hand, the World Kashmir Awareness Forum led by Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai has condemned the terrorist attack on a Sikh Gurudwara in Afghanistan, which killed 25 innocent human beings.