Pakistan calls upon UN to seek release of Kashmiri HR activist Asiya Andrabi

ISLAMABAD (92 News) - Pakistan has called upon United Nations to seek immediate release of Kashmiri human rights activist and political leader Asiya Andrabi.

In a statement today (Sunday), Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that Pakistan has approached the United Nations Secretary General in New York and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva to seek immediate release of Kashmiri human rights activist and political leader, Asiya Andrabi, incarcerated in infamous Tihar Jail in India.

He said it has been highlighted that Andrabi's life is in danger owing to imminent risk of persecutory conviction by a sham court on 18 January 2020.

The FO stated that Ms Andrabi was an ardent advocate of women empowerment, and has worked for social reforms and realisation of fundamental freedoms for the people of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The FO has demanded the UN secretary general and the UN high commissioner to use their influence for the release of Asiya Andrabi, her spouse and other political prisoners in the occupied territory.

Kashmiri human rights activists is founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM), women rights organisation, working on women’s education, empowerment, well-being and protection.