The Amritsar-based Sikh organisation, Dal Khalsa, has strongly condemned the house arrest of the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in New Delhi as illegal and unjust.
The Dal Khalsa president, H S Dhami, in a statement issued from Amritsar demanded immediate release of Syed Ali Gilani and lamented the silence of Indian civil society and eminent human rights activists over the issue.
He urged the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to intervene and take stock of the restrictions on the veteran Hurriyet leader. He said that the Indian government was highly mistaken if it considered that by detaining Gilani it could break his resolve for carrying forward the struggle of Kashmiris’ for the right to self- determination.
Dhami also urged Indian Home Minister, Sushilkumar Shinde, to restore the civil, political and human rights of Gilani immediately and allow him to be with his people and Family members