Malik’s Judicial Remand Extended Till June 07, JRL Condemns NIA Court’s Verdict

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Monday strongly condemned the NIA court’s verdict of extending the judicial remand of incarcerated JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik upto July 7^th, stating “the illegal detention of JKLF chairman is being deliberately prolonged under political vendetta and is against the basic principles of democracy and humanity as well.”

JRL as per a statement issued to KNO said that earlier also NIA and ED booked several resistance leaders that include Shabir Ahmed Shah, Advocate Shahidul Islam, Altaf Ahmad Fantosh, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Mehraj din Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Shahid Yousuf,  Zahoor Watali, and women resistance leaders Asiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, who all are languishing in Tihar since last more than  two years and unfortunately their illegal detention is also being prolonged as these agencies failed to bring  any substantial evidence against them.

They termed the prolonged detention of these leaders as political vendetta to break the resolve of resistance leadership, urging the world organizations like Asia Watch, ICRC, Amnesty International, and others to take serious steps in building pressure on GoI to ensure the release of all these prisoners who have no crime other than their political belief lodged in Kathua, Udhampur, Kotbalwal and Tihar jail Delhi, and are deprived of all the basic rights.(KNO)