Srinagar, February 05, 2018 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik has strongly condemned the prolonged detention of Doctor Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo who has today completed his 25 years in jail.
Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement termed the prolonged incarceration of Doctor Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Qadir Butt and professor Muhammad Shafi Khan (Sharaiti) as grave violation of existing international laws. He said that Kashmiris are being put in jails for their political beliefs and under the pretext of various redundant grounds their incarceration is prolonged and they along with their families are put to grave hardships.
JKLF chairman said that Doctor Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo is a religious scholar and a prominent political figure and he and others are being put to hardships for their political belief by the Indian government. He further said that dozens of other inmates including Syed Sajid Hassan Bukhari are languishing in Indian jails since more than two decades. JKLF chairman appealed ICRC and other international human rights organizations to take note of these gross human rights violations on prisoners and save the lives of these Kashmiri inmates.
Meanwhile, JKLF chairman has paid rich tributes to martyrs advocate Muhammad Hussein, Shaheed Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, Shaheed Ghulam Muhammad and Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Teli on their martyrdom day. He said that these martyrs sacrificed their today for our tomorrow. He expressed solidarity with their families.
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