UNCHR should take notice of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s hunger strike: Farooq Rehmani

ISLAMABAD, July 31 (SABAH): The United Nations Council for Human Rights, should be approached and impressed by all concerned groups and institutions to take cognizance of health-deteriorating conditions Muhammad Yasin Malik in Tihar jail as a result of unfair trial, life sentence, opening of more cases and hunger strike and not providing humanitarian and conducive environment to his family members to meet him in Tihar in the interest of  precious human life of the Kashmiri leader, which is presently at stake for want of proper health and humanitarian care by the Government of India, says Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League and ex-Convener All Parties Hurriyat Conference AJK.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the political atmosphere created by fanatical propaganda of the BJP agencies around and in the jail premises is venomous against the Kashmiri leadership and under the given circumstances Muhammad Yasin Malik ‘s mother and sisters rightly have apprehensions to visit Delhi to motivate him about discontinuing the hunger strike.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani supported Yasin Malik’s demand for fair trial stating that the UN Council of Human Rights take measures to impress upon the Government of India to take a humanitarian and broader view of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir caused by harrowing trials and judgments outside Kashmir against the Kashmiri leader on fanatical lines, so that the human life is taken seriously and the Kashmiri leaders are not led to gallows and not tried and sentenced on fake and unsubstantiated reasons and charges”.

He said that Muhammad Yasin Malik’s questions had a weight and the UNCIP should also play their part to save his life and it must be remembered that the long drawn question of Jammu and Kashmir and fake trials must not be so randomly handled by religious prejudicial approach of the Government of India.