{"id":17810,"date":"2025-04-20T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17810"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:58:41","slug":"india-every-friday-i-am-put-under-arbitrary-house-arrest-mirwaiz-umar-farooq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17810","title":{"rendered":"India: &#8216;Every Friday I am put Under Arbitrary House Arrest&#8217; &#8211;  Mirwaiz Umar Farooq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Mirwaiz alleged that the ban also aims to weaken the centrality of Muslim institutions of the valley-the Jama Masjid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurriyat Conference chairman and chief cleric of Jamia Masjid Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday (April 18) said that he is put under house arrest every Friday to prevent him from speaking up on issues at weekly congregational prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anjuman Auqaf (management committee) of the Jama Masjid condemned the house arrest of Farooq for the fourth consecutive Friday, reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/j-k\/being-put-under-house-arrest-to-prevent-from-speaking-up-on-issues-says-mirwaiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Tribune<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery Friday I am put under arbitrary house arrest! Putting pressure on me not to speak up, the ban also aims to weaken the centrality of Muslim institutions of the valley-the Jama Masjid, office of the Mirwaiz, and cause collective grief to Muslims and all those who oppose this authoritarian and sectarian outlook,\u201d Mirwaiz posted on X on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy house detention case is still pending in court, where I am seeking relief from the Hon\u2019ble High Court, but in such times patience remains our only strength,\u201d added Mirwaiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to Mirwaiz\u2019s house arrest, the Anjuman Auqaf said in its statement said that \u201cthese actions cause immense hurt and distress to the Muslim community of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and to all those who value justice, religious freedom and democratic principles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe repeated restrictions imposed on Mirwaiz are unjust and appear to be aimed not only at silencing his voice on vital issues of Muslims but also at weakening the central religious institutions of the Valley \u2013 most notably the Jama Masjid,\u201d the Auqaf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/every-friday-i-am-put-under-arbitrary-house-arrest-mirwaiz-umar-farooq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/every-friday-i-am-put-under-arbitrary-house-arrest-mirwaiz-umar-farooq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirwaiz alleged that the ban also aims to weaken the centrality of Muslim institutions of the valley-the Jama Masjid. Hurriyat Conference chairman and chief cleric of Jamia Masjid Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday (April 18) said that he is put under house arrest every Friday to prevent him from speaking up on issues at weekly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[15596,16481,105,39,16480,4156,3855,45,16482],"class_list":["post-17810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-anti-muslim-policies","tag-brutalities-in-kashmir","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-india","tag-indian-atrocities-in-kashmir","tag-indian-occupied-kashmir-2","tag-jk","tag-kashmir","tag-supresion-of-kashmiris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17812,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions\/17812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}