WEB DESK
Popular Front of India North Zone President A S Ismail has condemned Uttar Pradesh police’s widespread harassment of innocent Muslim families and illegal arrest of Muslim youths including the organization’s leaders in the state.
There have been widespread arrests and police harassment in Uttar Pradesh against innocent Muslims. Dozens of Muslim youths in various parts of Lucknow were called on the pretext of talks on 4 August at midnight and then they were kept in custody. Their families were threatened by police and some of them have yet not been released. Now it is being reported that three of them, Dr Aleem, Kamruddin and Sahibe Alam, have been remanded on the charges of causing disharmony between communities. It can only be viewed as attempt to prevent Muslims from speaking against injustice. In western Uttar Pradesh districts like Muzaffarnagar and Shamili, police stormed Muslim houses at night and threatened families against protesting for Babri Masjid. Popular Front condemns these arrest and harassments. Yogi government is using police as goons against people and taking away their democratic rights through intimidation.
Popular Front state ad hoc committee member Nadeem who is in custody was subjected to torture by police. He has neither been remanded nor released even after three days. This is bare violation of human rights by Yogi Police. Popular Front demands the immediate release of all those arrested Muslim youths and action against officers involved in the torture of Nadeem. We want to make it clear that Popular Front will fight this authoritarianism through legal and democratic ways. We also appeal to democratic society in the country to abandon their silence and voice against the oppression of innocents in Uttar Pradesh.
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