In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has expressed its grave concern over the plight of ille-gally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists, lan-guishing in different jails of India and the territory at the hands of arrogant jail authorities.
The APHC General Secretary, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani in a statement issued in Srinagar de-plored that the Indian jails had been converted into hellish interrogation centres where prisoners are treated as convicted criminals, bonded labourers and worse than animals .
Condemning the denial of proper medical treat-ment and diet as per jail manual, he warned if any-thing untoward happened to the ailing leaders and activists belonging to the Kashmir resistance movement, languishing in Tihar, Agra and other hell-like jails, the Indian jail authorities will be re-sponsible.
Illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists included APHC Chairman, Masarat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Mohamed Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Shafi Shariat, Dr Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Na-heeda Nasreen, Fahmeeda Sofi, Ghulam .Qadir Butt, Altaf Ahmad Shah, ,Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saiful-lah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahamad Dar, Maqsood Ahmad Butt, Ghazanfer Iqbal, Muham-mad Yousaf Falahi, Muhammad Yousaf Mir, Meh-mood Topiwala, Muhammad Ayoub Dar, Muham-mad Ayoub Mir, Zahoor Watali, Nazir Ahamad Sheikh, Showkat Ahamad Khan, Shahid Yousuf, Shakeel Yousaf, Raashid Sehrai and Mujahid Se-hrai.
Molvi Bashir Ahamad Irfani urged the United Nations Human Rights Council and other human rights organizations, including Amnesty Interna-tional, Human Rights Watch and International Committee of the Red Cross, to investigate the criminal negligence of the jails authorities con-cerned towards illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists, who are suffering from multiple ail-ments for long time in jail.
He also demanded early settlement of the linger-ing Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions for which the people of Kashmir have rendered innumerable sacri-fices.—KMS
