Kashmir

Untoo urges release of Kashmiri prisoners

Srinagar: International Forum For Justice Human Rights JK (IFJHRJK) chairman  Muhammad Ahsan Untoo  urged upon the Indian authorities to release the prisoners and jailed convicts on parole in view of the covid19 pandemic.

The chairman Untoo has demanded that prisoners, especially the prisoners convicted for life, should be released at earnest parole on humanitarian grounds. It added that most of the convicts are aged and suffering from multiple ailments inside prisons and thus are exposed to the COVID 19 disease.

“They are not going to run away from their homes. The honourable courts have released prisoners and those who have been convicted for life before as well. Hence Indian authorities should consider their release on parole so that they spend some time with their     families and ward off the deadly coronavirus diseases which are consuming lives of the people,” IFJHRJK Chairman, Mohammad Ahsan Untoo said.

“These prisoners have the right to live. On humanitarian grounds the Kasmiri prisoners and convicts should be released at earnest,” he added.

Other than that, Untoo Chairman (IFJHRJK) that it is a known fact that Kashmir has been hit by a lethal Covid19 wave which has so far claimed lives of hundreds of people including prisoners. It said that the state is not in a position to meet with the colossal challenges imposed by the pandemic.

In such scary circumstances, the Kashmiri political prisoners lodged in Indian held Kashmir and outside Kashmir jails continue to be at the risk of contracting the deadly virus.

In absence of the existing healthcare system, it becomes amply clear that jail authorities are not in a position to accommodate the rapidly increasing the number of COVID infected cases of Kashmiri prisoners- most of whom have been booked under frivolous charges.`

“The recent death of pro-freedom leader Ashraf Sehrai amply proves this fact. He was suffering from illness and died under custody as jail authorities failed to provide any treatment. It is my humble request to authorities to shift Kashmiri prisoners lodged in outside jails to their native places and release them on parole. The virus does not differentiate between the seven year old convict and the one who has been awarded lifer. Both are humans and can contract virus”.   

He said that the administration should act on the supreme court decision and release the prisoners in the wake of covid pandemic.

IFJHRJK has prepared the list of some of the prisoners detained in various jails across mainland India for the last 10 to 28  years and demanded their release on parole on urgent basis;

Nazir Ahmad Shaikh,Muhammad Ayoub Mir, .Mehmood Topiwala, -Feroze Ahmad Bhat, -Parvaiz Ahmad Mir, -Muzaffar Ahmad Dar,Masarat Alam Bhat , Muhammad Qasim Faktoo ,Dr Muhammad Shafi Kha,Ghulam Qadir Bhat,-Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, Showkat Ahmad Khan and several other facing illegal detentions since decades in jails.

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