Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani on Monday demanded immediate shifting of all Kashmiri prisoners lodged in various Indian jails to the Kashmir Valley.
Expressing “serious concern” over the deteriorating health condition of Kashmiri detainees in New Delhi’s Tihar jail, the octogenarian leader said that those lodged in Tihar Jail including Shabir Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Dr Gh Mohammad Bhat, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Meraj-u-Din Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bita Karate, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Kamran Yousuf, Shahid Yusuf , Zahoor Ahmad Watali and others are meted out ill treatment.
He said there was absence of proper medical care as a result of which their health condition worsens with every passing day. Geelani warned authorities, saying if any untoward happens to them, the local rulers and New Delhi shall have to “face consequences.”
Geelani said prisoners lodged in Tihar jail have not committed any offence and they are “political prisoners and suffering because of political vendetta.”
Geelani also expressed concern over the falling condition of Dr Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, saying he is languishing in jail from past eight years and is suffering from multiple ailments.
Despite his deteriorating condition, he said, no proper treatment was provided to him and his eye sight was badly affected in absence of specific treatment.
He also condemned the continuous detention of resistance leaders including Masarat Alam Bhat , Dr Mohd Qassim, Dr Mohd Shafi Shariati, Gh Mohd Khan Sopori, Ameer Hamza Shah, Mir Hafiz Ullah, Mohd Yusuf Falahi, Ab Gani Bhat , Mohd Yusuf Lone, Sarjan Barkati, Fayaz Ahmad Dar , Riyaz Ahmad Mir ,Master Ali Mohammad Dar, Tanveer Ahmad War, Irfan Ahmad, Khursheed Ahmad Lone ,Fayaz Ahmad Tantrey, Raies Ahmad Mir, Mohd Yusuf Mir, Ab Ahad Para, Mohd Rafiq Ganie, Gh Qadir Bhat, Mohd Shaban Khan , Salman Yusuf, Shakil Ahmad Yatoo, Manzoor Ahmad Kaloo, Haji Mohd Rustum ,Sarjan Barkati, Mohd Subhan Wani, Ab Khaliq Regu, Gh Mohd Tantrey, Nasir Ahmad Ganai, Bashir Ahmad Wani, Sheikh Danish, Nazir Ahmad Manto, Javed Ahmad Falahi, Ab Hamid Parey, Assad ullah Parey, Aijaz Ahmad Bahru, Mushtaq Ahmad Hura, Farooq Ahmad Bhat, Javid Ahmad Mir, Mufti Ab Ahad Rather, Mohd Amin Ahangar, Mohd Amin ,Showkat Hakim, Bashir Ahmad Saleh, Sajad Ahmad Chopan, Suhail Ahmad Sheikh , Ab Salam Mir, Mohd Sultan Sopori, Ashfaq Ahmad Parey, Irshad Ahmad Para, Sajad Ahmad Noh, Meraj-u-Din Nanda, Ikhlas Ahmad Sheikh , Nayem Ahmad Dar aAli Mohd and Farooq Ahmad Sofi.
Geelani said that most of the people particularly youth who were arrested post 8 July 2016 uprising in Kashmir and have been tortured in various police stations.
Commenting over the inhuman treatment meted out to prisoners, Geelani appealed to the Amnesty International, Asia Watch, and other international organisations for human rights to take cognizance of the plight of the detainees and break their silence.
