Srinagar, January 20, 2018 (PPI-OT):In occupied Kashmir, the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) has said that its three-member delegation met the illegally detained Kashmiris lodged in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail. The HCBA spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said the delegation comprising Advocate G N Shaheen, Advocate Mushtaq Ahmed Dar and Advocate Arshad Andrabi met the Kashmiri prisoners lodged in Tihar Jail’s prison no. 4 and 8.
He said that the delegation met Altaf Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Merajuddin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Zahoor Ahmed Watali, Shahid Yousuf, Javaid Ahmed Butt, Zahoor Ahmed, Peer Nazir Ahmed, Muhammad Aslam Wani and Ghulam Jeelani. The spokesman said that the HCBA team discussed the legal defense in the cases being legally and politically sensitive in nature. “The team members picked up various problems relating to the safety and poor health of the prisoners with the jail authorities,” he added.
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