Srinagar:Hurriyat Conference (M) has expressed strong concern and resentment over the Amendment to the Public Safety Act (PSA) through an ordinance by the Governor-led State Administrative Council (SAC).
A Hurriyat (M) spokesperson in a statement issued to GNS said the amendment is aimed at ensuring that Kashmiri political prisoners slapped with PSA are shifted to prisons outside the state.
He termed the move as anti-human and against the basic principles of humanity, adding, it reflects the “revenge mentality” against the political prisoners.
He said dozens of prisoners lodged in outside State prisons including Tihar jail in Delhi are deprived of basic medical facilities and are lodged with criminals which pose a big threat to their lives.
The amendment to draconian PSA is aimed at further instilling fear among people among the families of prisoners and to build pressure on people of Kashmir to force them into submission, he said.
“The people of Kashmir are already suffering on every front due to the unbridled powers are given to lakhs of forces to unleash terror on common masses and now the amendment to PSA seems another move to strengthen that repress,” he added.
Hurriyat (M) also castigated New Delhi for imposing “arbitrary censorship” and disallowing foreign journalists from visiting Jammu and Kashmir and said the move reflects Delhi’s “desperation” to keep away foreign media from reporting the truth about the ground realities of Kashmir.
The move to stop foreign media from visiting and reporting Kashmir amounts to the direct assault on the freedom of the press, the spokesperson said adding that the international media should take note of it and protest this “undemocratic” gesture.
“Kashmir is the only place where foreign media is prevented from reporting the events at a time when human rights violations are at an all-time high,” he said.
“But in today’s age of technology and mass media, people across the globe are well aware of the day to day happenings in Kashmir,” the spokesperson added. (GNS)
