ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 (APP): All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi and Masroor Abbas have condemned the restrictions and use of brute force by Indian forces on the participants of Muharram processions. According to Kashmir Media Service, the leaders in their statements in Held Srinagar also denounced the continued crackdown on pro-freedom leaders, activists and young boys. Other Hurriyet leaders who denounced the Indian brutalities includedMohammad Yousuf Naqash, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Bilal Siddiqui, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Zafar Akbar Butt, Javed Ahmad Mir, Qazi Yasir, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Nahida Nasreen, Muhammad Iqbal Mir, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi and Ghulam Nabi War. Meanwhile, the Ashura Muharram processions could not be taken out onWednesday due to stringent curfew and a 27-year-old official ban on them. Police detained several mourners after subjecting them to brute force and teargas shelling near BSNL Exchange headquarters in Srinagar when they tried to take out processions. The troops arrested dozens of people including, Agha Syed Muntazir Al-Moosvi, Ghulam Hassan Malik, Agha Syed Baqir and Nisar Hussain Rather after they defied curfew and appeared at Lal Chowk and TRC in Srinagar. Senior Hurriyet leaders, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi and Maulana Abbas Ansari were already under house arrest from the past three months.
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Use of brute force on mourners denounced
