Geelani concerned over deteriorating health of Peer Saifullah in Tihar Jail

 Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani has expressed serious concern over the ‘prolonged detention and ill-treatment’ meted out to Hurriyat leaders in and outside state jails especially at Tihar jail.

“The health of Peer Saifullah, presently lodged at Tihar jail, has deteriorated to the extent that he felt unconscious and had a fall in bathroom. Despite his grave health condition, he was not shifted to any hospital but taken to a nearby dispensary,” Geelani said in a statement.

   

“This inhuman and biased treatment to prisoners is the gross violations of not only human rights but disobedience of the norms of jail manual as well. Peer Saifullah is already a patient of brain tumor and has been operated upon two years back but the state is not even sparing a cancer patient.  Rulers have lodged him in far flung jail with no legal proceedings,” Geelani said.

He said, “Fictitious and false cases were framed against pro-freedom leaders and they were arrested. These incarcerated leaders  include Shabir Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Dr. Ghulam  Muhammad Bhat, Shahid-ul-Islam, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Ahmad, Zahoor Ahmad Watali, Aasiya Andrabi, Nahida Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi.  But these oppressive and coercive measures will never deter us from pursuing our struggle for justice and our basic rights.”

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