The APHC leaders, Shabbir Ahmed Shah And Nayeem Ahmed Khan in their separate statements demanded immediate release of all illegally detained Hurriyet Leaders and activists including the APHC chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani and Muhammad Yasin Malik. They expressed concern over occupation authorities’ denial to disclose whereabouts of the detained leaders. Jammu Hurriyet Leader, Muhammad Sharif Sartaj, The President of Jammu and Kashmir democratic forum, Pandit Bhushan Bazaz and the muslIm action committee Jammu said that India would not succeed in stifling Kashmiris’ voice by such undemocratic tactics. On the other hand, India’s leading peace activists in a joint statement condemned the imposition of curfew and other repressive measures in occupied Kashmir urging India to rein in its paramilitary troopers. Signatories of the statement included Arundhati Roy, Aruna Roy, Anand Chakravarti, Goutam Novlakha, Mahaseweta Devi, Medha Patkar, Nikhil Dey, Prashant Bhushan, sanjay Kak and Uma Chakravarti. Reporters sans frontiers (RSF), an international media watch dog, in a statement issued from its Paris office asked India to put an immediate stop to the censorship and violence against the media persons in occupied Kashmir. The statement said that at least 13 journalists were beaten by Indian police on Sunday in Srinagar. Meanwhile, curfew remained in force in all the ten districts of the Kashmir valley for the third day, today. Indian troops resorted to teargas shelling and gunfire to disperse hundreds of protesters, who defying curfew orders, came to the streets in Achabal, Ganderbal and Magam areas. Complete strike was observed in rajouri, Mandi, Surankote, Doda, Bhaderwah, Mandher, Banihal and Kishtwar against the killing of innocent Kashmiris in troops’ indiscriminate firing, yesterday. The troops desecrated a mosque in Hyderpora area, which triggered forceful protests. Three persons including a woman succumbed to the injuries; they received in troops’ firing in Hajan. The occupation authorities did not allow funeral rites for a youth, martyred in troops’ firing in Hajan and permitted only four persons to take his dead body to graveyard.

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