Terming the shifting of political detainees to outside Kashmir jails as “worst example of state-terrorism”, Hurriyat Conference (G) today said, “the state authorities are frustrated and have lost all moral and ethical values.”
“We strongly condemn the shifting of political leaders and activists, including Raiees Ahmad Mir, Nasir Abdullah Ganie, Danish Ahmad, Hakeem Showkat and Masood Ahmad to Hiranagar, Udhampur, Kotbalwal, Kathua and Udhampur jails,” a spokesman of the Hurriyat, in a statement today, said.
He also condemned the arrest of its leaders and workers, including G A Gulzar, Muhammad Ashraf Laya, Umar Aadil Dar and Syed Imtiyaz Hyder, ahead of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) programme.
Terming shifting of detainees to outside Kashmir jails as ‘political vendetta’, the spokesman said, “It is unjustified and unconstitutional. As per Supreme court ruling a detainee is to be lodged near to his home locality or the state he belongs to. This is the lone place where the people are being kept under custody thousands of miles away from their homes and this makes their families suffer more.”
He appealed to the ICRC and other human rights organizations to come to the rescue of these detainees and take notice of this ‘lawlessness’.