Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani on Sunday strongly condemned the “inhuman treatment” meted to the Kashmiri and Pakistani prisoners in Tihal jail.
Commenting on the information that Pakistani prisoners lodged in central jail Tihar were taken out of their barks in the midnight and physically manhandled and ruthlessly beaten, a few of them sustained serious injuries, Hurriyat Conference condemned “this brutality”.
“This is a gross violation of national and International laws which compel every country to abide by these rules and regulations to ensure the safety of every individual under custody.”
Although India too was signatory to these laws, but “intoxicated in power and might it never abide by these laws.”
Hurriyat Conference said that when any Indian national was arrested on charges of spying or murderous conspiracies, they start beating the drum of prisoner’s and human rights.
Hurriyat Conference said that these helpless people in Indian jails mostly are political prisoners qualifying for more human and civilized behaviour from their captives, “but India very brazenly and cunningly subjects them to inhuman treatment.”
Hurriyat Conference also condemned the raid on the incarcerated elder son of Syed Salah-ud-din a few days back and termed it as vandalism and hooliganism by men in authority. Hurriyat Conference said that harassing the families of jailed people “is an old tactics of Indian imperialistic mindset by which they force the pro-freedom people to submission.”
It said the pro-freedom leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Dr. G. M. Bhat, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Ahmad, Zahoor Ahmad Watali despite court orders have not been released. Hurriyat Conference said that Indian authorities themselves tarnish the image and stature of its own judiciary by not respecting their verdict “but these tactics will not deter us from pursuing our goal of freedom.”
