SRINAGAR Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Friday took out a protest march here in response to the call of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) condemning the continuous human rights violations in Kashmir.
A spokesman of the separatist outfit said that scores of party leaders and activists staged protest demonstrations at Koker Bazar and Budshah Chowk here. He said the JKLF chairman, Yasin Malik, has strongly condemned the oppression in Jammu Kashmir especially in the south and north of Kashmir Valley.
The JKJLF chief, according to the spokesman, has said that claims of democracy and continuous tyranny and oppression against unarmed civilians and peaceful political resistance can never go side by side.
Innocent killings, oppression and suppression, arrest spree and other acts of tyranny have turned Kashmir into a worst hell. Common people are being subject to such oppression which can only be termed as worst dictatorship in the name of democracy, Malik said, according to the spokesman.
Kashmiris are facing worst apathy in Indian jails like Tihar jail and jails of Jammu Kashmir including Udhampur jail, Kathua Jail, Hiranagar jail, Amphala jail Jammu, Srinagar central jail, Mattan Jail, Baramullah Jail, Kupwara jail, Kot-Balwal jail and other incarceration centres. India being a signatory to the Geneva Convention on prisoners was supposed to adhere to the international law but contrary to this, India is employing every oppressive means to inflict more and more harm to these inmates and suppressing them ruthlessly.
Torturing inmates, putting them in solitary confinements and cells, humiliating their visitors have become common practice of authorities in jails, he added.
Slapping repeated PSAs, employing police tactics to prolong incarceration of prisoners, using agencies like NIA, ED to put Kashmiris in Indian jails, shifting lifers and other detainees from Kashmiri jails to jails in Jammu, denying proper medical facilities to inmates , torturing, beating, putting them into solitary confinements, keeping them naked inside prison cells, humiliating and torturing their kith and kin who come to see them at jails and other incarceration centres and other oppressive measures like these have become a routine in Jammu Kashmir, he added.
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