Online Desk: A Kashmiri delegation staged a protest outside the UN office in Geneva, condemning the systematic human rights violations committed by Indian forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.The protest, held on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, highlighted the plight of torture victims and their families. The event was attended and addressed by Altaf Hussain Wani, SardarAmjadYousaf, Adv. Parvez Ahmed Shah, Shamim Shawl, Dr. Waleed Rasool, Ms. Gazala Habib, Ms. Haiqa, and others.

Highlighting the plight of torture victims and their families, the speakers said that thousands of innocent Kashmiris, including men and women, have been subjected to third-degree torture in prisons, interrogation, and detention centers. The Indian government, they said, has remorselessly been using torture as an ‘instrument of control’ to suppress Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle for the right to self-determination.

Referring to the structures of violence stretched all across the Kashmir valley and beyond in the form of military camps, they said that these military camps were virtually turned into torture centers where innocent Kashmiris were beaten, given electric shocks, and forced to eat dirt or drink filthy water.