Concern expressed over detainees’ plight in IOK

SRINAGAR: The Hurriyet forum, led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has expressed serious concern over the condition of a large number of political leaders, activists and freedom-loving youth languishing in various prisons and condemned the jail authorities for meting out inhuman treatment to the detainees.

A forum spokesman said that the detainees were not being provided medical treatment and the quality of food and edibles was also poor.  He said complaints were being received from the family members that when they reached the jails to meet their loved ones after travelling hundreds of kilometers, the authorities created hurdles and cited different excuses for disallowing their meeting with the inmates, said a press release issued on Friday.

The spokesman stressed that such practices were a violation of Jail Manual and Geneva Conventions and urged the world human rights bodies to intervene and help provide proper facilities to the political detainees in the occupied territory.