Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Srinagar, United Jihad Council and others have expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of the incarcerated chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik in Delhi.
In a statement a HCBA spokesman said, ” The Bar, at ameeting of its executive committee members here expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health condition ofMalik, who is reportedly on a hunger strike for the last 12 days and is lodgedin a hospital in handcuffs where he isnot even taking lifesaving drugs, which are essential for his very survival.”
“Since Malik is suffering from a chronic heart ailment andhis incarceration is bound to affect his health, yet, he had been detainedunder Public Safety Act (PSA) and lodged at Central Jail, Kot balwal Jammu,wherefrom, he was abruptly taken to Delhi and produced before an NIA court,which remanded him to police custody.”
“Keeping in view the failing health of Muhammad Yasin Malik,the HCBA demands he be brought back and got treated in any hospital of thestate, so that his life is saved and is not put in any kind of danger. The BarAssociation also demands that his wife and daughter, who have not been allowedto meet Muhammad Yasin Malik, for the last so many years, be granted visa sothat they take care of the ailing leader, both in the hospital and at home,”the spokesman said.
The HCBA spokesman said that Bar supports the strike callgiven by the separatist leadership for April 23.
Meanwhile United Jihad Council (UJC) spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain quoting the UJC chief Syed Salah-ud-din in a statement to a local news agency KNS said, “Malik has started hunger strike against ill treatment meted out to the inmates lodged at Tihar Jail following which his health condition has deteriorated.
Not only Malik, but several other leaders, including Aasiya Andrabi, Peer Saifullah, Shabir Shah, Muzaffar Ahmad Dar, Jamaat-e-Islami president Dr. Hameed Fayaz, Ayaz Akbar, Altaf Shah and others are also suffering from various ailments,” he added. The UJC chief, according to the statement, appealed the human rights organisations to take note of the plight of inmates and intervene in this regard.
Jamiat e Hamadania chief Mirwaiz Riyaz Hamadani in astatement said that continued detention of JKLF chairman Yasin Malik hasworsened his health condition.
The JeH chief said that Malik is already suffering from ahost of ailments and his detention has put his life at risk. He expressed solidaritywith Malik’s family.