In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has appealed people to observe complete shutdown and massively march towards Hyderpora in Srinagar on Thursday, to pay tribute to the icon of Kashmir resistance movement, Syed Ali Gilani, on his first martyrdom anniversary.

Syed Ali Gilani embraced martyrdom in the custody of Indian police last year at his Hyderpora residence in Srinagar where he was kept under continued house arrest for over a decade.  

The Indian forces’ personnel had snatched away the dead body of Syed Ali Gilani for forcible burial at Hyderpora graveyard in Srinagar under heavy military siege in the dark of night in violation of the last will of the veteran leader.