Taking to X(Twitter),  Kashmir Media Service’s Urdu handle wrote: “Hurriyat leaders condemn ban on freedom-loving organizations in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.(Translated to English)

Fact-Check

The DFRAC team investigated the above claim and found a tweet on the X handle of Union Home Minister Amit Shah stating that the Modi government has designated the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League as an ‘Unlawful Association’ for five years. The organization threatened India’s integrity by promoting, aiding and abetting the secession of Jammu and Kashmir through terrorism.

Furthermore, in another tweet, he asserted that pursuing PM @narendramodi Ji’s policy of zero-tolerance towards terrorism, the MHA has declared four factions of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League—namely, JKPL (Mukhtar Ahmed Waza), JKPL (Bashir Ahmad Tota), JKPL (Ghulam Mohammad Khan) and JKPL (Aziz Sheikh) led by Yaqoob Sheikh—as ‘Unlawful Associations’. These organizations were involved in inciting terror and abetting secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi government is committed to suppressing terrorism ruthlessly.

Media reports from TOI, Deccan Herald, Indian Express and The Print

According to a media report by Deccan Herald, continuing its crackdown on separatist groups, the Center has extended the ban on the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, led by incarcerated Yasin Malik, while J&K Peoples Freedom League and four factions of J&K Peoples League have also been banned under strict anti-terror laws.

The report further mentioned: “These separatist organisations have been accused of sowing seeds of disaffection among people, exhorting people to destabilise public order, encouraging the use of arms to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India, promoting hatred against the government, and calling for the boycott of elections on multiple occasions”

Moreover, another report by The Print stated: “The Modi government has banned the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, led by incarcerated terror accused Yasin Malik, the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League and four Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League factions for their involvement in fomenting terror and secessionism in the Union territory”.

Subsequently, media reports from Indian Express and TOI also revealed similar facts in the context of the above claim.

Conclusion

It is evident from DFRAC’s fact-check that the condemnation by Hurriyat leaders for banning the freedom-loving organizations in J & K is misleading, as these organisations are banned due to their involvement in terrorism and secessionism.