ISLAMABAD – The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed AliGilani, has expressed serious concern over the ill-treatment meted out tothe Kashmiri political prisoners especially those lodged in Tihar Jail ofNew Delhi.According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS) , Syed Ali Gilani in a statementissued in Srinagar urged the South Asian chief of International Committeeof the Red Cross (ICRC) and the world bodies of human rights to use theirgood offices to end the long and continued illegal detention of thesepolitical detainees. Despite being political prisoners they are kept in avery humiliating condition, he deplored.Referring to the recent report from Tihar jail, he said from the last weekof December 2018 all the Kashmiri and other prisoners were shifted to jailNo 8/9 and kept in a two-storey building of ward No 12, which is devoid ofany ventilation or sunlight, making the poor inmates to shiver in thischilling cold of winter.
He said the prisoners repeatedly requested the jail authorities to allowthem to move out in the lawn in front of the bark, but instead of allowingthem to do so, they imposed more restrictions on them.The APHC Chairman said that the authorities intended to bring in moreconvicts, which would make the Kashmiri prisoners’ life more miserable. Hesaid list of relatives to meet the detainees is also curtailed, whichdeprives them of meeting their relatives. The food and drinking watersupplied is also unhygienic and below standard, by which many prisoners aresuffering from various health issues and sick prisoners are left to battlefor their life as no proper medical care is provided to them, he lamented.Meanwhile, Indian police and troops used brute force on protesters inPulwama district, injuring several of them.The police and troops used brute force and fired teargas shells on peacefuldemonstrators in Hal and Tral bus stand areas of the district. Severalpeople sustained injuries during the brutal actions of the forces’personnel.
