Kashmiri political prisoners face ordeal in jails, their parents in uncertain homes: Farooq Rehmani
ISLAMABAD, May 14 (SABAH): Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League & Ex-Convener All Parties Hurriyet Conference AJ&K Chapter, has written to different Human Rights bodies and international jurists about the plight of the Kashmiri political detainees and under-trial inmates, who have been bearing brunt of mental and physical trauma due to revengeful policies of the Indian regime for many decades, which include also financial burden on them and their homes about their daily diet- expenses, as in many Indian and J&K prisons the burden of prison expenditure falls on the detenue not on jail administration since the Modi regime took over the reigns of the Indian and Kashmir governments. This has terribly hit both financial and health conditions of the Kashmiri inmates languishing in unhygienic and repressive state of affairs.
The most dreadful and sordid aspect is that India has shut and isolated the IIOJ&K by an iron curtain of restrictions under its stringent laws and no independent fact-finding commission is permitted to visit the aggrieved state and its prisons or interrogation centres.
The Hurriyet leader in his statement urged upon the UN authorities to take cognizance of the prevalent miserable conditions of the political prisoners and mount pressure for their release and withdrawal of their cases on India, who remain under chains in different prisons of India and Jammu and Kashmir.
He expressed apprehensions should the Modi regime fail to accept a just demand of the relatives of these political prisoners, their health and physical condition may not allow some to survive in the coming years; parents or guardians of some of the detainees had already breathed their last without seeing each other.
The UN should not behave as a silent spectator to the grim and gory picture of the fragmented and dismembered Kashmir, which had a number of political resolutions to its credit in its 76 years of history. The world body must come forward to say if all that India had done or was doing as a member-state, was in conformity with the Charter, manifesto and the relevant international resolutions? Who slaughtered over one hundred thousand people and who is confiscating their ancestral properties–India or not?
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in his message paid rich homage to the resilience, steadfastness and commitment of thousands of known and unknown Kashmiri political detainees and under-trials (for their uncommitted so called sins), and their families who are being targeted and victimised continuously in different ways, for playing their part for the mission of freedom and right of self-determination of the of people of Jammu and Kashmir. But, their sacrifices for a just cause will not go in vain.