Addressing the weekly news briefing in Islamabad today (Thursday), Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said the independent voices continue to raise concerns on the gross human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the European Parliament s Sub-Committee on Human Rights has discussed the serious human rights situation and continued crackdown on civil society and human rights activists in IIOJK and India.
The Spokesperson said the UK Parliamentarians have once again condemned human and civil rights abuses of Kashmiri people through the military occupation of the region.
He said the Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir has published a report; covering human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir from August 2020 to January 2021.
The Editors Guild of India has once again expressed its shock at the regular detention of editors of Kashmir-based publications by the Indian security forces.
He said the EGI has underscored that there are scores of journalists who are experiencing this new normal where they can be hauled up by the security forces for writing anything that goes contrary to the government narrative that peace has returned to the valley.
