Sunday, March 7, 2010

Concern expressed over detained leaders’ declining health

Srinagar, March 07 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Tehreek-e-Hurriyet (TeH) has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of the illegally detained Hurriyet leader and party General Secretary, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai. Tehreek-e-Hurriyet in a meeting held in Srinagar said that the health of Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai had deteriorated to an alarming proportion due to prolonged detention.

The participant of the meeting pointed out that his life would be in danger if he was not given proper medical treatment. They warned that the occupation authorities would be responsible if anything untoward happened to the detainee.

The meeting denounced the continued illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders including Masarrat Alam Butt, Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Abdul Ahad Para, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Abdul Aziz Dar, Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah and Raja Mehraj-ud-Din. It also appealed to the international human rights organisations to impress upon India to release the Kashmiri detainees.

On the other hand, the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League (ML) has said that the occupation authorities were not providing medical treatment to its illegally detained ailing Vice Chairman, Muhammad Yousuf Mir. The ML spokesman in a statement in Srinagar said, Muhammad Yousuf Mir has been languishing in Kot Bhalwal jail and he has developed several ailments during the detention.

Kashmir Media Service

[Via http://zakiraah.wordpress.com]

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