Srinagar, Dec 25 : Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Mohd Ashraf Sehrai has strongly condemned the “ill treatment” to Kashmir detainees and under trials prisoners in District Jail Kathua.
“Certain family members and relatives of some of the detenues and undertrial prisoners who are lodged in Kathua jail, informed that the jail authorities have made the life of Kashmiri prisoners miserable, as they are beating them every day, without any rhyme or reason,” Sehrai said in a statement issued to KNS.
“They stated that Kashmiri prisoners, who are lodged in Kathua jail, are also lodged in small cells and with criminals deliberately, where they are further tortured by those criminal and at times by jail staff as well,” he added.
“Because of the ill treatment meted out to them by the jail authorities, are so frightened that they don’t want even to narrate their woeful tail,” Sehrai said and appealed Bar Association and other Human rights Organisations to take up the matter with International Red Cross, Amnesty International and Asia Watch, so that they visit the Kathua jail and see for themselves, as to how the Kashmiri prisoners are being maltreated in the said jail, by the jail authorities.
Sehrai said the jail authorities are not only violating the international covenants, but also the fundamental and constitutional rights of these prisoners. “A jailed person is not stripped off of his fundamental or constitutional rights. He is entitled to every safeguard enshrined in the jail manual and any violation committed by the jail authorities of the said manual is punishable under the same manual, which may even end in their dismissal from their service as well,” he added.
Moreover, Sehrai expressed his profound sorrow and pain over the Tsunami in Indonesia that left hundreds dead and property worth billions damaged. “Indonesia urgently needs relief after an earthquake and tsunami. The Muslim Ummah in particular should do more to help Indonesian people at this point in time,” he added.
Sehrai extended solidarity with the Indonesian government and the people of Indonesia in this hour of grief, while extending solidarity and sympathy with those who lost their loved ones and prayed to Almighty to give courage to the Indonesian nation to face this challenge.
“People of Kashmir, who bore the brunt of deadly quake in 2005,and devastated floods of 2014 can fully understand the pain and sufferings of people of Indonesia as being the suffers of nature’s fury themselves,” he said.
Meanwhile, Sehrai expressed his heartfelt and deepest condolence and grief on the demise of prominent Islamic scholar of Kashmir and the Imam of Jamia Masjid Pulwama Moulana Alhaj Ali Muhammad and Aunt of Mahaz e Azaadi leader Mohd Yousuf Gilkaar.
Sehrai said, the deceased (Moulana Alhaj Ali Muhammad) was a religious and social figure who had been performing his duties since the past many decades in Pulwama district in particular with dedication and honestly.
He termed his death as ‘a great loss for society’.
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