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Kashmir’s main cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq connected Friday (December 12, 2025) expressed interest implicit caller arrests of separatist leaders successful decades-old cases successful Kashmir and urged transportation of detainees from extracurricular jails to J&K.
Speaking astatine the Friday congregation astatine Jama Masjid Srinagar, the Mirwaiz said, ”There is heavy interest among the radical implicit the developments taking spot successful which individuals are being arrested successful transportation with decades-old cases. The J&K Government should intervene and reappraisal the handling of aged cases and transportation of detainees backmost to Jammu & Kashmir to guarantee a fairer, faster, and much compassionate process of justice.”
The Mirwaiz’s entreaty from the pulpit came days aft 2 elder separatist leaders, JKLF faction caput Javed Ahmad Mir and Islamic Students League subordinate Shakeel Ahmad Bakshi, were arrested successful Srinagar. Mr. Mir, erstwhile a adjacent subordinate of JKLF main Yasin Malik, was arrested connected December 9 successful a lawsuit related to rioting of 1996. Mr. Bakshi was besides arrested successful a 29-year-old lawsuit of rioting on December 8.
“This has created a batch of anxiousness and uncertainty, particularly among those persons and their families who person agelong since disengaged from past paths,” the Mirwaiz said.
He said thousands of Kashmiri prisoners were languishing successful jails successful and extracurricular J&K. “It has already caused immense suffering to their families. Arresting much and much radical lone adds to the woes and symptom of Kashmiris,” the Mirwaiz said.
‘Pressing issue’
Describing the spree of arrests arsenic “serious humanitarian and ineligible concerns arising”, the Mirwaiz said the continued detention of Kashmiris successful prisons extracurricular the Union Territory was a pressing issue.
“Such practices often effect successful delays successful proceedings proceedings and severely bounds household access, moving contrary to basal principles of humane attraction and earthy justice,” helium added.
Urging the J&K authorities to reappraisal the handling of aged cases, the Mirwaiz appealed for the contiguous transportation of detainees backmost to Jammu & Kashmir “to guarantee a fairer, faster, and much compassionate process of justice”.
He demanded that the J&K authorities should intervene and halt the continuing process of arrests and detention of individuals who person moved connected and are not associated with immoderate signifier of unit successful decades.
