Samad Inqalabi starts hunger strike in Bandipora jail

Srinagar, September 14, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the illegally detained Chairman of Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi, Abdul Samad Inqalabi has started a hunger strike in Bandipora jail. The spokesman of Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the family of Abdul Samad Inqalabi, while providing written information to the media in Srinagar, said that Samad Inqalabi was on hunger strike against his illegal detention in Bandipora jail.

He added that due to non-provision of medical facilities in the jail, the health of Abdul Samad Inqilabi had deteriorated to a critical level. He expressed grave concern over his declining health and said that the jail authorities were not shifting Samad Inqilabi to hospital for treatment.

The spokesman said that the jail authorities were not providing him full details about the health of Abdul Samad Inqalabi. The administration will be responsible if any untoward situation happened to him, he added. It may be recalled that the authorities had re-arrested Abdul Samad Inqilabi from outside the Srinagar Central Jail on September 3 and shifted him to the Joint Interrogation Center, Hamhama, and from there to the Bandipora sub-jail.

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