Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that it is greatly concerned about the health reports of Kashmiri political detainees in jails across India as Covid 19 pandemic rages to create havoc.
The Hurriyat forum in a statement issued in Srinagar said that as per family sources of prisoners, lack of even basic amenities inside the jails had led to serious health problems among the prisoners.
Quoting family sources of Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam, who is in New Delhi’s Tihar jail, it said that he was very ill and showing all symptoms of COVID, including high fever, but the authorities were neither getting him tested nor taking him to hospital.
It said that it was extremely worrisome that political prisoners, who were also humans, could be treated like this.
It added that silence of human rights organisations on the issue had led the authorities to show this indifference and inhumanity towards prisoners.
The Hurriyat forum deplored that Ayaz Akbar, who is in Tihar jail, was not released even for a day on parole despite repeated appeals to see his wife, suffering from cancer for past three years, till she breathed her last recently.—KMS
