SRINAGAR The Hurriyat Conference (M) has said that at least 2200 political prisoners are lodged in different jails of the State even as there are no charges against them and they have only been seeking the right to self determination.
Expressing serious concern over the shifting of prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir to outside jails, Hurriyat Conference (M) termed the move against the principles of democracy as well as a blatant violation of the Indian Supreme Court guidelines.
Shifting of Kashmiris to various prisons across India lacks justification and this has proved that the rule of law doesnt exist here as Kashmir was directly ruled by the lakhs of forces present here, said the Hurrriyat in a statement.
A Hurriyat (M) spokesman said that that the mass shifting of Kashmiri prisoners to outside prisons is being done clandestinely without informing their respective families which has added to the miseries of the parents whose loved ones have been languishing in jails for their only crime of demanding Kashmir resolution.
The separatist conglomerate said that in the past two months, ten Pakistan prisoners who were in State jails have been shifted New Delhis Tihar jail while as 23 political prisoners that include Mushtaqul Islam, Feroz Ahmed Khan, Bashrat Ahmed Mir and Shakeel Ahmed Thokar have been shifted to Haryana prison against violation of Indian Supreme Court ruling.
Two years ago the resistance leaders and a business man that include Shabir Ahmed Shah, Advocate Shahidul Islam, Altaf Fantosh, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Mehrajudin Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Shahid Yousuf, businessman Zahoor Watali, women resistance leaders Asiya Andrabi along with two aides, Fehmeeda Sofi and Nahida Nasreen continue languish in Tihar Jail after being booked by the NIA under fictitious charges, it said.
The Hurriyat spokesperson said that even after two years the NIA failed to substantiate any evidence against these leaders and instead finds ways and means to prolong their illegal detention.
Jammu and Kashmir is actually being governed and ruled by the forces who have broken all records of human rights and have converted entire Kashmir into a military State while as series of steps are being taken to push the resistance leadership and the people into submission.
The Hurriyat urged all the world forums to take serious note of the ultimate repression being unleashed in Kashmir and worst ever human rights violations being committed by the lakhs of forces here and to build pressure on New Delhi to put an end to the rights abuse in valley.
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