By The South Asia Times report 

LONDON: Members of the British parliaments on Wednesday expressed deep concerns over human rights violations in India and urged the UK government to take action against the Modi-led Hindu nationalist BJP government.

In a joint letter addressed to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the British lawmakers said the Indian Hindu nationalist government persecuting the Kashmiri political leaders under draconian laws.

“Yasin Malik was arrested under India public safety act and unlawful activities prevention act and convicted on the 19th of May 2022 on terrorism charges which carry the maximum sentence of either life imprisonment or the death penalty. Mr Malik was tried in secret and without a jury by a National investigation court in India on charges that are not only spurious but at this point nearly thirty years old,” said in the letter, sent by MPs, Tahir Ali, Imran Hussain, Khalid Mahmood and Mohammad Yasin to premier Johnson.

The lawmakers added that the New Delhi government use these acts against Kashmiri political leaders to persecute them as they oppose the military occupation of India

“This is a part of a broader escalation of a severe crackdown on the civil liberties of Kashmiri people as documented by numerous organizations including human rights watch,” it’s said.

The lawmakers criticized the Modi government and said Yasin Malik's trial was a political motivated and against the human rights laws

“We call on the UK government to join international community in challenging India public safety act, which has been criticized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been used not only against Yasin Malik but also many other Kashmiris who seek to challenge the Indian occupation,” it’s added.

British parliamentarian said that the Indian government cannot be allowed to continue with its political and social repression of the Kashmiri people and targeting them because they are opposing Indian occupation.

“Persecution of political opponents and widespread human rights abuses are serious indictments of the Modi-led government of India and its brutal occupation,” the lawmakers criticized PM Modi.

British MPs demanded the premier to raise these issues and not move ahead with India without resolutions of these issues.

“We, therefore, demand the UK government to uses its special relationship with India to ensure a peaceful solution to the conflict in Kashmir,” they stressed. 

“UK government demands [from India] that human rights organizations be given access to all Kashmiri political prisoners being held in India so that they may receive full and proper representation.

“The foreign secretary appoint a British human rights and diplomatic group to investigate the conditions and charges under which Kashmiri political prisoners are held and appropriate ministries to meet with human rights watch and the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights to discuss how best to ensure the human rights of the Kashmiri people are respected,” they demanded.

The lawmakers demanded from the British Prime Minister that the UK government must advocate for the fair trial of Yasin Malik and others and speak for the rights of self-determination of the Kashmiri people