Separatist leadership on Monday said that the detention of incarcerated JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik is being prolonged deliberately.
In a statement here the leadership said, “Earlier also NIAand ED booked several leaders that include Shabir Ahmed Shah, advocate ShahidulIslam, Altaf Ahmad Fantosh, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Mehraj din Kalwal,Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Shahid Yousuf, Zahoor Watali, and women leaders AasiyaAndrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, who all are languishing in Tihar sincelast more than two years. Unfortunatelytheir detention is also being prolonged as these agencies failed to bring any substantial evidence against them.”
The leadership urged the world organizations like AsiaWatch, ICRC, Amnesty International, and others to intervene and build pressureon New Delhi to release all the prisoners whose only crime is their politicalbelief.