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Srinagar, May 11, 2013 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has expressed serious concern over the custodial disappearance of illegally detained Hurriyet leader, Mir Hafeezullah, from Hira Nagar jail in Jammu.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement in Srinagar said that Mir Hafeezullah was languishing in jails since 2008 and on April 4, this year, the police rearrested him after a court quashed his detention under the black law, Public Safety Act.
He deplored that instead of setting him free, the authorities lodged him at Hira Nagar jail after slapping fresh PSA on him. He said that the court had directed the jail authorities to present him before it but they filed an affidavit on May 8, denying that no such person was in their custody.
The veteran leader said that Hafeezullah was not keeping well in jail and the puppet administration would be responsible if anything untoward happened to him. He urged Amnesty International and other humanitarian organizations to take cognizance of the matter and ascertain the reality about his whereabouts. He also demanded shifting of unlawfully detained Hurriyet leaders including Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mushtaq-ul-Islam and Mir Hafeezullah to the Valley jails from Jammu region.
On the other hand, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, presiding over a meeting of his party, Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee in Srinagar said that the Kashmiri people had rendered unparalleled sacrifices for securing their inalienable right to self-determination. He said that the Kashmir dispute should be resolved through tripartite talks in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
He also announced different programmes to be held in connection with the Martyrdom Week to be observed from May 16 to mark the martyrdom anniversaries of prominent martyred liberations leaders, Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq and Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone. These programmes include Quran Khawani, seminars and rallies besides complete shutdown and a march towards Eidgah in Srinagar on May 21.
APHC leaders, Yasmeen Raja, Ghulam Ahmed Mir and the spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami of occupied Kashmir in their statements expressed grief over the death of Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah, due to attack on him in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail. They demanded registering of a murder case against the jail superintendent, Ragni Sehgal.
The members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons staged a sit-in protest at Pratap Park in Srinagar demanding of the puppet regime to inform them about the whereabouts of their dear ones disappeared in the custody of Indian troops and police during the last 24 years.
Indian army and police continued a massive siege and search operation in Karnah area of Kupwara district for the fifth consecutive day. Media reports said that some 700 troops and police personnel had been taking part in the operation.
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