Kashmiri prisoners face inhuman treatment in Indian jails

Kashmiri political party urges international community and rights organizations to raise voice for Kashmiri prisoners.

SRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiris, mostly youth and political activists, are facing inhuman treatment in different jails of India after the occupation forces arrested them on flimsy and concocted charges.

During the last many years, Indian occupation forces have picked up thousands of political activists, especially youth, from different parts of the occupied Kashmir.

Over half a million Indian troops are deployed in the occupied territory to suppress the popular voice by making raids and arresting those who represented the masses on arbitrary grounds. Many of those taken away from their houses by the Indian forces have never returned and  are feared to have been killed without any charges. The rest of the political activists have been put in  Indian jails and are kept there without facilities or legal cover.

Moreover, Kashmiri leader Yaseen Malik has been languishing in an Indian jail and has been sentenced to life in prison on fake terrorism charges.

In a statement, Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party set that Indian government was deliberately depriving the Kashmiri prisoners of any facility.

It said that Kashmiri prisoners were not being provided any  health care as  result of which they were facing a number of diseases. Many of them also have developed depression, anxiety and post traumatic disorder.

The party urged international human rights organizations to take notice of the plight of the Kashmiri political prisoners and pressure India to release them. 

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